Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by H.A. Holden, Volume 2Hubert Ashton Holden 1864 |
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... virtues we have not . Cowards father cowards and base things sire base . Seek not for danger where there is no profit . Great griefs medicine the less . 25 Some falls are means the happier to rise . Safer to fear too far than trust too ...
... virtues we have not . Cowards father cowards and base things sire base . Seek not for danger where there is no profit . Great griefs medicine the less . 25 Some falls are means the happier to rise . Safer to fear too far than trust too ...
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... virtue bears the privilege of trust . Ill can he stay whom love doth press to stay . Fairest of all things fair on earth is virtue . It is no mean happiness to be stated in the mean . Time is the old justice that examines all offenders ...
... virtue bears the privilege of trust . Ill can he stay whom love doth press to stay . Fairest of all things fair on earth is virtue . It is no mean happiness to be stated in the mean . Time is the old justice that examines all offenders ...
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... virtue to maintain the credit of good parents . COURAGE AND HOPE ' OURAGE and hope are provident in peril , and vanquish greatest dangers . ENEMY - A NOBLE CONSOLES IF one t one should be a prey , how much the better 138 FALSE FRIENDS ...
... virtue to maintain the credit of good parents . COURAGE AND HOPE ' OURAGE and hope are provident in peril , and vanquish greatest dangers . ENEMY - A NOBLE CONSOLES IF one t one should be a prey , how much the better 138 FALSE FRIENDS ...
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... VIRTUE HERE scarce is vice so simple but assumes some shew of virtue in its outward parts . DANGER - PREVENTION IS wiser to prevent an urgent danger , ' T's wis to lose time in questioning how it grew . 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 ...
... VIRTUE HERE scarce is vice so simple but assumes some shew of virtue in its outward parts . DANGER - PREVENTION IS wiser to prevent an urgent danger , ' T's wis to lose time in questioning how it grew . 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 ...
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... virtue has raised above the things below ; who , every hope and fear to heaven resigned , shrinks not , though Fortune aim her deadliest blow . J. BEATTIE PROUD HUMILITY PITCH thy behaviour low , thy projects high : so shalt thou humble ...
... virtue has raised above the things below ; who , every hope and fear to heaven resigned , shrinks not , though Fortune aim her deadliest blow . J. BEATTIE PROUD HUMILITY PITCH thy behaviour low , thy projects high : so shalt thou humble ...
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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.