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" On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. "
Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Page 82
by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806
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Sabrinae corolla in hortulis regiae scholae Salopiensis contextuerunt tres ...

Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. SHAKSPEARE. Infancy. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled : So live, that sinking to thy life's last sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...exquisitely beautiful tetrastich : ' On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'at, whilst all around thee smil'd : So live, that, sinking in...Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep.' P. 266. Every one must be delighted with the animated and interesting picture which his lordship gives...
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The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of ...

1806 - 678 pages
...parent's knees, a naked neV born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thce smll'd ; So lire, that sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may^st smile, when all around thce weep." TO CORRESPONDENTS. WE have to apologize to H. for postponing lu. s piece on " Secret* retrod!...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 5

Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...sheds a healing balm. And wafts them to the skies. For the Literary Magazine. TO A NEW-BORN CHILD. ON parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiPd: So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep. Calm thou may 'st smile, while all around thce...
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Works, Volume 2

Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...pleafure, the following beautiful tetraftick, which is a literal tranflation from the Perfian : On parent knees, a naked, new-born child,, Weeping thou...all around thee weep. The hymns, which are original compofitions, are defcriptive of the Hindu deities, to whom they were addrefled, and a fhort introductory...
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The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...pleafure, the following beautiful tetraftick, which is a literal tranflation from the Perfian : On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou...all around thee weep. The hymns, which are original compofitions, are defcriptive of the Hindu deities, to whom they were addrefled, and a fhort introductory...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...pleasure the following beautiful tetrastick, which is a. iilernl translation from the Persian :— On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou...while all around thee smil'd; So live, that sinking in f hy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep. The uniformity which marked...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. William Richards, LL.D.: Who ...

John Evans - Baptists - 1819 - 444 pages
...admired 'countryman Sir William Jones has conveyed in the following lines— On parent knees behold a new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around...sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep! Mark the perfect man and behold the upright! for the end of that man —...
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The Poetical Note-book and Epigrammatic Museum: Containing More Than One ...

George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...cast, And, Tom, thy happiness increases fast. THE NEW-BOSN BABE. From the Persian, by Sir W. Jones. On parent knees a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'tl ; So live, that, sinking in my last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee...
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Essays on the Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression

Sir Charles Bell - Anatomy, Artistic - 1824 - 266 pages
...the little sufferer, the grimace with which he enters the world excites only smiles. " On parent's knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled — So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee...
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