Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by H.A. Holden, Volume 2Hubert Ashton Holden 1864 |
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... grief . Friendship begets new courage in our breast . Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts . 35 Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud . Cares and joys go round as seasons fleet . A heart unspotted is not easily daunted . Small ...
... grief . Friendship begets new courage in our breast . Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts . 35 Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud . Cares and joys go round as seasons fleet . A heart unspotted is not easily daunted . Small ...
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Hubert Ashton Holden. Every one can master a grief , but he that has it . A wise man is not loquacious . Known virtue bears the privilege of trust . 75 Ill can he stay whom love doth press to stay . Fairest of all things fair on earth is ...
Hubert Ashton Holden. Every one can master a grief , but he that has it . A wise man is not loquacious . Known virtue bears the privilege of trust . 75 Ill can he stay whom love doth press to stay . Fairest of all things fair on earth is ...
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... own catastrophe may be . NONE H ' SYMPATHY LESSENS grief E oft finds medicine who his griefe imparts , but double griefs afflict concealing harts . E. SPENSER 174 175 176 177 178 SYMPATHY IN SORROW I that into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 宁.
... own catastrophe may be . NONE H ' SYMPATHY LESSENS grief E oft finds medicine who his griefe imparts , but double griefs afflict concealing harts . E. SPENSER 174 175 176 177 178 SYMPATHY IN SORROW I that into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 宁.
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... grief . TRUE NOBILITY J. WEBSTER HE nobleman is he whose noble mind THE is filled with inborn worth , unborrowed from his kind . FOR EMINENCE SUBJECT TO ENVY OR whoso reaps renown above the rest , by heaps of hate shall surely be ...
... grief . TRUE NOBILITY J. WEBSTER HE nobleman is he whose noble mind THE is filled with inborn worth , unborrowed from his kind . FOR EMINENCE SUBJECT TO ENVY OR whoso reaps renown above the rest , by heaps of hate shall surely be ...
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... CHILDREN PARENTS , bequeath not to your children's lot the shame that from them no device can take , the blemish that will never be forgot . 216 217 GRIEF HEIGHTENED BY CONTRADICTION DEEP EEP woes roll into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse II.
... CHILDREN PARENTS , bequeath not to your children's lot the shame that from them no device can take , the blemish that will never be forgot . 216 217 GRIEF HEIGHTENED BY CONTRADICTION DEEP EEP woes roll into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse II.
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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.