Scriptores Græci. Selections from Greek prose writers: with notes by J.E. Yonge

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Palavras e frases frequentes

Passagens conhecidas

Página 442 - Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of Ills to come; Nor Care, beyond to-day! Yet see, how all around them wait The Ministers of human fate; And black Misfortune's baleful Train!
Página 442 - Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Página 443 - ... the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi, Sage counsel in cumber. Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever...
Página 442 - A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every...
Página 388 - In these respects, our whole community deserves justly to be admired, and in many we have yet to mention. In our manner of living we show an elegance tempered with frugality, and we cultivate philosophy, without enervating the mind. We display our wealth in the season of beneficence, and not...
Página 461 - Telephus, aut summi plena jam margine libri Scriptus, et in tergo, necdum finitus, Orestes?
Página 448 - Te prseter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur. Absumet heres Csecuba dignior Servata centum clavibus et mero Tinget pavimentum superbo, Pontificum potiore cœnis.
Página 457 - Vel nos in mare proximum, Gemmas et lapides, aurum et inutile, Summi materiam mali Mittamus...
Página 453 - Thesauro invento qui mercenarius agrum Ilium ipsum mercatus aravit, dives amico Hercule ! Si, quod adest, gratum juvat, hac prece te oro : Pingue pecus domino facias et cetera praeter Ingenium, utque soles, custos mihi maximus adsis.
Página 388 - ... least we receive from it, that we never droop under the apprehension of possible misfortunes, and when we hazard the danger, are found no less courageous than those who are continually inured to it.

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