Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by H.A. Holden, Volume 2Hubert Ashton Holden 1864 |
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... earth below , HE ample proposition , that hope makes A. HILL fails in the promised largeness : checks and disasters grow in the veins of actions highest reared ; as knots , by the conflux of meeting sap , infect the sound pine , and ...
... earth below , HE ample proposition , that hope makes A. HILL fails in the promised largeness : checks and disasters grow in the veins of actions highest reared ; as knots , by the conflux of meeting sap , infect the sound pine , and ...
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... earth , the common mother of mankind . THE RESOLUTE MAN R. CUMBERLAND ALL my life long I have beheld with most respect the man who knew himself , and knew the ways before him , and from amongst them chose considerately , with a clear ...
... earth , the common mother of mankind . THE RESOLUTE MAN R. CUMBERLAND ALL my life long I have beheld with most respect the man who knew himself , and knew the ways before him , and from amongst them chose considerately , with a clear ...
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... earth no sooner covers the earth brought thither , but they turn away with inward smiles , the dead no more remembered . RETRIBUTION P. MASSINGER NOR custom nor example nor vast numbers of such as do offend make less the sin . For each ...
... earth no sooner covers the earth brought thither , but they turn away with inward smiles , the dead no more remembered . RETRIBUTION P. MASSINGER NOR custom nor example nor vast numbers of such as do offend make less the sin . For each ...
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... EARTH N the trembling Earth , God's eye doth follow her . OT on a path of reprobation runs Speak no harsh words of Earth , she is our mother , and few of us , her sons , who have not added a wrinkle to her brow . She gave us birth , we ...
... EARTH N the trembling Earth , God's eye doth follow her . OT on a path of reprobation runs Speak no harsh words of Earth , she is our mother , and few of us , her sons , who have not added a wrinkle to her brow . She gave us birth , we ...
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... soul of a departed man ! ' tis impious cruelty ; let justice strike the living , but in mercy spare the dead . And why pursue a shadow that is past ? 361 362 Why slander the deaf earth , that cannot 44 Passages for Translation.
... soul of a departed man ! ' tis impious cruelty ; let justice strike the living , but in mercy spare the dead . And why pursue a shadow that is past ? 361 362 Why slander the deaf earth , that cannot 44 Passages for Translation.
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arms art thou bear BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty behold blood breast breath brother Cæsar clouds Conic Sections Creon crown Cymbeline dare dark dead dear death deeds dost doth dream earth Edition eyes fair fate father fear FLETCHER flowers fortune friends gentle give glory gods grace grave grief hand hate hath head hear heart heaven honour J. W. DONALDSON king leave light live look lord LORD BYRON Lycidas MASSINGER mighty MILTON mind mother Nathos ne'er never night noble Noble Kinsmen numbers o'er peace PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE pity poor prince queen S. T. COLERIDGE SHAKESPEARE shame sleep sorrow soul speak spirit St John's College stood stream sweet sword tears tell thee thine things thou art thou hast thought thyself tongue Trinity College unto virtue voice waves weep wind wretched youth
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Page 478 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 201 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 375 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 435 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none ; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 209 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction...
Page 431 - And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 514 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 289 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 183 - By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 431 - He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.