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Side xiv
... its ex- pression in the epigram ; and the word , which was ori- ginally confined to an inscription , became the term for every short poem which expressed one definite idea . Such was the epigram at the period at which it INTRODUCTION .
... its ex- pression in the epigram ; and the word , which was ori- ginally confined to an inscription , became the term for every short poem which expressed one definite idea . Such was the epigram at the period at which it INTRODUCTION .
Side xvii
... expression ; now and then a pleasing hyperbole , or an ingenious anti- thesis , may be found in them , which is the most they can ever pretend to : we are not to seek for point in them ; good sense , and pure language , somewhat raised ...
... expression ; now and then a pleasing hyperbole , or an ingenious anti- thesis , may be found in them , which is the most they can ever pretend to : we are not to seek for point in them ; good sense , and pure language , somewhat raised ...
Side xxxiii
... expressed with singular terseness . The effect of writing whole volumes of epigrams is seen in the wit often degenerating into forced conceits , and in exhaustion of thought causing the reproduction of the same ideas in different ...
... expressed with singular terseness . The effect of writing whole volumes of epigrams is seen in the wit often degenerating into forced conceits , and in exhaustion of thought causing the reproduction of the same ideas in different ...
Side xxxix
... expression of the events , the manners , the character of each separate period of history . " _True as this is of poets in general , especially is it true of Epigram- matists . Authors of this class have , from the earliest times , not ...
... expression of the events , the manners , the character of each separate period of history . " _True as this is of poets in general , especially is it true of Epigram- matists . Authors of this class have , from the earliest times , not ...
Side 15
... made the scenes you writ Their happy point of fine expression hit . Thus still you live , you make your Athens shine , And raise its glory to the skies in thine . PLATO . The celebrated philosopher . He was born in SIMMIAS . 15.
... made the scenes you writ Their happy point of fine expression hit . Thus still you live , you make your Athens shine , And raise its glory to the skies in thine . PLATO . The celebrated philosopher . He was born in SIMMIAS . 15.
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Side 127 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture, and mean array.
Side 217 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Side xxxvi - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Side 142 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Side 305 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Side 460 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.
Side 57 - When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Side 519 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me
Side 137 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Side 20 - Ay me! I fondly dream! Had ye been there, for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?