 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1818 - 204 sider
...Cephisus' side,1* (While not with sadder, sweeter tongue, His own loved nightingale replied :) — " Man's happiest lot is NOT TO BE; " And when we tread...earliest free, " Descend to death's eternal sleep." — \ LONG, wide, and far, the youth has strayed, Forlorn, and pale, and wild with wo, And found no... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1818 - 206 sider
...Cephisus' side,11 (While not with sadder, sweeter tongue, His own loved nightingale replied :) — " Man's happiest lot is NOT TO BE ; " And when we tread...earliest free, " Descend to death's eternal sleep." — LONG, wide, and far, the youth has strayed, Forlorn, and pale, and wild with wo, And found no rest.... | |
 | 1843 - 778 sider
...sadder, sweeter tongue, His own loved nightingale replied :) — " Man's happiest lot is кот то BE ; " And when we tread life's thorny steep, •...earliest free, " Descend to death's eternal sleep." Long, wide, and far, the youth has strayed, Forlorn, and pale, and wild with wo, And found no rest.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1860 - 896 sider
...I860.] üMlty ami tioutltey. 95 He added : ' I am always repeating to myself your lines from Sophocles : H Ga2( Z7 /f Rp b `x *v \X" mJ y Xb- tgETWKL P M... Kr J* 3q8 g tPM ^ y 9 4 )kߺ / J ?VޫM a ' Again, he said more calmly : 'Every one who knows me must know that the partner of my life should... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 496 sider
...wish to possess it. My wish was serious, and sprung from the desire of avoiding needless. VOL. III. 27 Man's happiest lot is not to be : And when we tread...who earliest free Descend to death's eternal sleep." Again, he said more calmly : " Every one who knows me must know that the partner of my life should... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1876 - 336 sider
...' I never part from this.' He added, ' I am always repeating to myself your lines from Sophocles : Man's happiest lot is not to be : And when we tread...earliest free, Descend to death's eternal sleep." Again he said, more calmly, ' Every one who knows me must know that the partner of my life should be... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1886 - 584 sider
...I never part from this.' He added, ' I am always epeating to myself your lines from Sophocles — " Man's happiest lot is not to be ; And when we tread...who earliest free Descend to death's eternal sleep." ' " * • Pearock adds, " Again he said more calmly, ' Every one must know that he partner of my life... | |
 | Ernest Gambier-Parry - 1888 - 428 sider
...themselves about the father's neck — an act of love, a moment of recognition, and Flory was gone. Most blest are they who earliest free Descend to death's eternal sleep. And how did Reynell Taylor bear up against this terrible affliction ? With the constancy of Job : '... | |
 | Mrs. Julian Marshall - 1889 - 400 sider
...never part from this ! " He added, " I am always repeating to myself your lines from Sophocles — Man's happiest lot is not to be, And when we tread...earliest free, Descend to death's eternal sleep." Harriet had been absent for some time at Bath, but now, growing anxious at the rarity of news from... | |
 | Alfred William Pollard - 1890 - 256 sider
...reminiscence of this, and he tells us that at one time Shelley was " always repeating " to himself the lines : Man's happiest lot is not to be : And when we tread...who, earliest free, Descend to death's eternal sleep, though they lack the simplicity of the original. In line 2 of strophe i., Mr. Housman reads nаpeкс... | |
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I am always repeating to myself your lines from Sophocles: Man's happiest lot is not to be: And when we tread life's thorny steep, Most blest are they, who earliest free Descend to death's eternal sleep. 
