The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times. With Notes, Observations, Illustrations, and an Introduction |
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... verses . Explanations are given of epigrams which depend for their interest upon circumstances of the day , or events in the life of the epigrammatist , or of the person upon whom , or to whom , he writes . Observations and anecdotes ...
... verses . Explanations are given of epigrams which depend for their interest upon circumstances of the day , or events in the life of the epigrammatist , or of the person upon whom , or to whom , he writes . Observations and anecdotes ...
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... verse , which was engraved on statues of gods and men , and on the wayside tombs of the dead . It was invariably short , because , being cut in brass or marble , a long inscription would have been , not only inappropriate , but ...
... verse , which was engraved on statues of gods and men , and on the wayside tombs of the dead . It was invariably short , because , being cut in brass or marble , a long inscription would have been , not only inappropriate , but ...
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... verses have gained little favour with those whose vitiated taste is pleased with such epigrams as the quatrain describes : The qualities rare in a bee that we meet , In an epigram never should fail : The body should always be little and ...
... verses have gained little favour with those whose vitiated taste is pleased with such epigrams as the quatrain describes : The qualities rare in a bee that we meet , In an epigram never should fail : The body should always be little and ...
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... verse with a sting , provided it did not touch a worth- less emperor or a pampered favourite , Martial found to be the most effectual way to gain by his muse . He declared , indeed , that he was careful To lash the vices , but the ...
... verse with a sting , provided it did not touch a worth- less emperor or a pampered favourite , Martial found to be the most effectual way to gain by his muse . He declared , indeed , that he was careful To lash the vices , but the ...
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... verses , friend , are Kidderminster stuff , And I must own you've measur'd out enough . But what can be thought of the writer who could per- petrate so absurd a distich as this ? Happily for his reputa tion he is anonymous : Thy verses ...
... verses , friend , are Kidderminster stuff , And I must own you've measur'd out enough . But what can be thought of the writer who could per- petrate so absurd a distich as this ? Happily for his reputa tion he is anonymous : Thy verses ...
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Page 214 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 237 - 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...
Page 160 - 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.
Page 458 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body...
Page 166 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly; These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 267 - 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.
Page 213 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 202 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 330 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Page 539 - 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