The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times. With Notes, Observations, Illustrations, and an IntroductionBell and Daldy, 1870 - 587 páginas |
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... GREEK EPIGRAMMATISTS , B.C. 690 - A.D . 530 ANCIENT LATIN EPIGRAMMATISTS , B.C. 54 - A.D . 370 PAGE vii xiii 1 69 ARABIAN EPIGRAMMATISTS , A.D. 719 - A.D . 988 . 95 55 MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LATIN EPIGRAMMATISTS , a.d. 1265 - A.D ...
... GREEK EPIGRAMMATISTS , B.C. 690 - A.D . 530 ANCIENT LATIN EPIGRAMMATISTS , B.C. 54 - A.D . 370 PAGE vii xiii 1 69 ARABIAN EPIGRAMMATISTS , A.D. 719 - A.D . 988 . 95 55 MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LATIN EPIGRAMMATISTS , a.d. 1265 - A.D ...
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... anonymous epigrams at the end . These collections have a sprinkling of translations from the Greek , but they all accept the Roman type as the favourite . " Select Epigrams , " how- 66 ever , gives , more than the others , the PREFACE.
... anonymous epigrams at the end . These collections have a sprinkling of translations from the Greek , but they all accept the Roman type as the favourite . " Select Epigrams , " how- 66 ever , gives , more than the others , the PREFACE.
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... Greek inscriptions to be the best models for epigrammatic writing , I have inserted many modern pieces which take that form , although , according to the perverted ideas of later times , they would scarcely be considered epigrams . Some ...
... Greek inscriptions to be the best models for epigrammatic writing , I have inserted many modern pieces which take that form , although , according to the perverted ideas of later times , they would scarcely be considered epigrams . Some ...
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... Greek are by Bland and Merivale , the " associate bards " distinguished by Byron ; and a few are by the late Dr. Wellesley . I have inserted none by Major Macgregor , as his " Greek Anthology " is a work of very recent date , which can ...
... Greek are by Bland and Merivale , the " associate bards " distinguished by Byron ; and a few are by the late Dr. Wellesley . I have inserted none by Major Macgregor , as his " Greek Anthology " is a work of very recent date , which can ...
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... Greek Epigrams is to Jacobs ' " Anthologia Græca , " 1794-1814 . The reference of the Mediæval and Early Modern Latin Epigrams is , with a few exceptions , to the Anthology , entitled " Delitiæ Delitiarum , " of Abraham Wright , 1637 ...
... Greek Epigrams is to Jacobs ' " Anthologia Græca , " 1794-1814 . The reference of the Mediæval and Early Modern Latin Epigrams is , with a few exceptions , to the Anthology , entitled " Delitiæ Delitiarum , " of Abraham Wright , 1637 ...
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Visualização integral - 1875 |
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Visualização integral - 1870 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Aaron Hill afterwards Ambrose Philips Anacreon beauty Ben Jonson Bishop blest Book born breast breath Cambridge celebrated Charles charms Collection of Poems Cupid dead dear death Delitiæ Delitiarum died distich doth Duke Dunciad Earl edition elegant Elegy English Epigrammatists epitaph eyes fair fame fate flourished B.C. following epigram Foundling Hospital Fugitive Pieces Gentleman's Magazine give grace grave Greek Anthology Greek epigram hath heart heaven honour Horace Walpole inscription Jacobs John Johnson King Lady Latin lines live London Lord lovers Martial mind monument Muses never Nichols Notes and Queries o'er Oxford poet Poetical poetry Pope praise published Queen rose satire says Select Epigrams Shakespeare similar sleep smile soul stanza sweet Tadlow tears thee thine Thomas thou thought tomb Translated Venus verses virtue Westminster Westminster School wife William write written wrote
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Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 330 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Página 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