Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by H.A. Holden, Volume 2Hubert Ashton Holden 1864 |
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... Dare to be true ; nothing can need a lie . Yet in thy thriving still misdoubt some evil . 130 Scorn no man's love though of a mean degree . Sum up at night what thou hast done by day . AMBITION 00 often those who entertain ambition ...
... Dare to be true ; nothing can need a lie . Yet in thy thriving still misdoubt some evil . 130 Scorn no man's love though of a mean degree . Sum up at night what thou hast done by day . AMBITION 00 often those who entertain ambition ...
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... dares to be , not to be thought , an honest man . R. CUMBERLAND 359 THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN MORTIMER AND 360 GLENDOWER HEN on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank , WH in single opposition , hand to hand , he did confound the best part of an ...
... dares to be , not to be thought , an honest man . R. CUMBERLAND 359 THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN MORTIMER AND 360 GLENDOWER HEN on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank , WH in single opposition , hand to hand , he did confound the best part of an ...
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... dare I call him mine ? The shadow of another cleaves to me , and makes me one pollution : he , the King called me polluted shall I kill myself ? what help in that ? I cannot kill my sin , if soul be soul ; nor can I kill my shame ; no ...
... dare I call him mine ? The shadow of another cleaves to me , and makes me one pollution : he , the King called me polluted shall I kill myself ? what help in that ? I cannot kill my sin , if soul be soul ; nor can I kill my shame ; no ...
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... dares call them unconstant ? if bewray secrets , who will term them untrue ? if fall to other loves , who trembles not , if he call them un- faithful ? ROME J. LYLY ROME , Rome , thou now resemblest a ship at random wandering in a ...
... dares call them unconstant ? if bewray secrets , who will term them untrue ? if fall to other loves , who trembles not , if he call them un- faithful ? ROME J. LYLY ROME , Rome , thou now resemblest a ship at random wandering in a ...
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... dare to live , and satisfy . P. MASSINGER 434 KING HENRY VI ON THE BATTLE - FIELD AT TOWTON HIS battle fares like to the morning's war , THIS when dying clouds contend with growing light , what time the shepherd , blowing of his nails ...
... dare to live , and satisfy . P. MASSINGER 434 KING HENRY VI ON THE BATTLE - FIELD AT TOWTON HIS battle fares like to the morning's war , THIS when dying clouds contend with growing light , what time the shepherd , blowing of his nails ...
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Page 478 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 201 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 375 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 435 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none ; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 209 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction...
Page 431 - And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 514 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 289 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 183 - By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 431 - He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.