| 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... | |
| 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!... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...which is a literal tranflation from the Perfian : On parent knees, a naked, new-born child,, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd: So live,...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... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...which is a literal tranflation from the Perfian : On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd: So live,...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... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...which is a. iilernl translation from the Persian :— On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, 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... | |
| John Evans - Baptists - 1819 - 444 pages
...William Jones has conveyed in the following lines— On parent knees behold a new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smil'd ; So LIVE,...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 —... | |
| Sir Charles Bell - Anatomy, Artistic - 1824 - 266 pages
..." 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 weep." From the Persian. "Anger," says Lord Bacon, " is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in... | |
| John Gregory Pike - Children - 1828 - 300 pages
...better. " On parent knees, a helpless, new born child, Weeping thou iat'st, while all around thee smilM ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep." Sect. 4. You have seen with what sublime triumph the apostle Paul bade farewell to all sublunary things;... | |
| 1829 - 734 pages
...while they weep, thou may'st tranquilly smile. • " On nurse's arms a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd ; So live, that sinking in thy long, last sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." It might be easily translated... | |
| Richard Whately - English language - 1834 - 372 pages
...beautiful lines, from the Arabic, by Sir W. Jones : On Parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smil'd ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou then may'st smile, while all around thee weep. All of these are instances also of perfect Antithesis,... | |
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