Epigrams, ancient and modern, ed. by J. Booth1865 |
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Stran xiii
... poetic . To compensate how- ever for this deficiency , if such it be , the editor has subjoined a few of those epigrammatic sentiments which have obtained some degree of notoriety in the world . Every one will admit that this is an epi ...
... poetic . To compensate how- ever for this deficiency , if such it be , the editor has subjoined a few of those epigrammatic sentiments which have obtained some degree of notoriety in the world . Every one will admit that this is an epi ...
Stran xviii
... poets who , though not devoting much of their time to this kind of writing , still amused and occupied themselves occasionally with such compo- sitions , seemingly suggested by some passing event , or some eccentric personage , who may ...
... poets who , though not devoting much of their time to this kind of writing , still amused and occupied themselves occasionally with such compo- sitions , seemingly suggested by some passing event , or some eccentric personage , who may ...
Stran xix
... poetic treasure - houses of the East been ransacked , doubtless many a precious gem might have been gathered in , and the volume richly illumined . Take the following , in confirma- tion of this remark , as specimens in translation ...
... poetic treasure - houses of the East been ransacked , doubtless many a precious gem might have been gathered in , and the volume richly illumined . Take the following , in confirma- tion of this remark , as specimens in translation ...
Stran 5
... what time They dubbed thee poet with thy trashy rhyme . Scribble away ; if madness be a curse , What greater can I wish thee than thy verse ? H. W. 13 ( Lucillius . ) Far happier are the dead From the Greek Anthology . 5.
... what time They dubbed thee poet with thy trashy rhyme . Scribble away ; if madness be a curse , What greater can I wish thee than thy verse ? H. W. 13 ( Lucillius . ) Far happier are the dead From the Greek Anthology . 5.
Stran 18
... poet , who , in two lines , has most beautifully compressed it : • Smyrna , Rhodos , Colophon , Salamis , Chios , Argos , Athenæ , Cedite , jam cœlum patria Mæonidæ est . ' 59 ( Planud . b . i . ep . 302. ) Nature , with difficulty ...
... poet , who , in two lines , has most beautifully compressed it : • Smyrna , Rhodos , Colophon , Salamis , Chios , Argos , Athenæ , Cedite , jam cœlum patria Mæonidæ est . ' 59 ( Planud . b . i . ep . 302. ) Nature , with difficulty ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Æneid Anacreon ancient Anon b. x. ep beauty Ben Jonson Bishop Bishop of Exeter boast Cæsar cause Chancellor Charles charms Church Court Cowper cried daughter dead Dean Swift dear death devil died Doctor doth Dryden Duke Earl edition England English epigram fair fame fool French Garrick George give gold Greek Greek Anthology head heart heaven honour John Johnson King Kit-cat Club knave Lady Latin lies live Lord Chancellor Lord Neaves Lucillius married mind Mock Epitaph ne'er never Nicarchus o'er once Oxford Palladas Pitt poem poet poor Pope pray Queen quoth R. B. Sheridan R. H. Barham replied rich satire sure Swift taste tell thee there's thine thing thou art thought translated true Venus verse Whig Whilst wife wine wise woman write wrote
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Stran 47 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Stran 74 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Stran ix - The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Stran 208 - Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Stran 331 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Stran 323 - When she has walk'd before. But now, her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short all ; The doctors found, when she was dead — Her last disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent-street well may say, That had she lived a twelvemonth more — She had not died to-day.
Stran 17 - I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell: But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.
Stran xv - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Stran 25 - O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Stran 144 - I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.