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Page 133
... there is method in ' t . Ibid . On fortune's cap we are not the very button . Ibid . 1 A short saying oft contains much wisdom . - SOPHOCLES : Aletes , frag . 99 There is nothing either good or bad , but thinking SHAKESPEARE . 133.
... there is method in ' t . Ibid . On fortune's cap we are not the very button . Ibid . 1 A short saying oft contains much wisdom . - SOPHOCLES : Aletes , frag . 99 There is nothing either good or bad , but thinking SHAKESPEARE . 133.
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... Frag- ment 288 ( Plumptre's Translation ) . Help thyself , Heaven will help thee.- LA FONTAINE : Book vi fable 18 2 Like his that lights a candle to the sun . - FLETCHER : Letter to Sir Walter Aston . And hold their farthing candle to ...
... Frag- ment 288 ( Plumptre's Translation ) . Help thyself , Heaven will help thee.- LA FONTAINE : Book vi fable 18 2 Like his that lights a candle to the sun . - FLETCHER : Letter to Sir Walter Aston . And hold their farthing candle to ...
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... Frag . 146 ( trans . by Plumptre ) . O Death the Healer , scorn thou not , I pray , To come to me : of cureless ills thou art The one physician . Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse . Frag . 250 ( trans . by Plumptre ) . A prosperous ...
... Frag . 146 ( trans . by Plumptre ) . O Death the Healer , scorn thou not , I pray , To come to me : of cureless ills thou art The one physician . Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse . Frag . 250 ( trans . by Plumptre ) . A prosperous ...
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... Frag . 59 . Frag . 63 Aletes . Frag . 99 . A short saying oft contains much wisdom.1 Do nothing secretly ; for Time sees and hears all things , and discloses all . Hipponous . Frag . 280 . Peleus . Frag . 445 . It is better not to live ...
... Frag . 59 . Frag . 63 Aletes . Frag . 99 . A short saying oft contains much wisdom.1 Do nothing secretly ; for Time sees and hears all things , and discloses all . Hipponous . Frag . 280 . Peleus . Frag . 445 . It is better not to live ...
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... Frag . 7 . A bad beginning makes a bad ending . Eolus . Frag . 32 . Time will explain it all . He is a talker , and needs no questioning before he speaks . Waste not fresh tears over old griefs . Frag . 38 . Alexander . Frag . 44 . The ...
... Frag . 7 . A bad beginning makes a bad ending . Eolus . Frag . 32 . Time will explain it all . He is a talker , and needs no questioning before he speaks . Waste not fresh tears over old griefs . Frag . 38 . Alexander . Frag . 44 . The ...
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Page 322 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 108 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 62 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 138 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 115 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 155 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 465 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.— That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures.
Page 112 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit...
Page 75 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids...
Page 572 - Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.