 | American poetry - 1891 - 608 pages
...TETRASTICH. ( From the Persian.) ON parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled: So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep. SIR WILLIAM JONES (1746-1794.) SACRIFICE. ACHIEVEMENT still demands The... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...know, and, if he has, to remember. Thee on thy Mother's knees, a new-born child, In tears we saw, when all around thee smiled. So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Smiles may be thine, when all around thee weep. Page 114, line 8. " These are my Jewels I " The anecdote... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...them together strnng. On parent knees, a naked new-horn child, Weeping thon sat'st while all aronnd thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thon mayst smile, while all aronnd thee weep. From the Persian. What constitntes a state ? Men who... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...dream, The future—a desire I and no less for these from the Persian, by Sir William Jones: On parent and example, however, the slavish adulation of seventeenth-century...especially after the period of the Restoration, canno tnou may'st smile, while all around tnee weep,— beautiful. It is true that they do not agree in all... | |
 | Maria Brace Kimball - Elocution - 1892 - 92 pages
...theoretically emphatic group of words. " On parent's knees, a naked new-horn child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep." From the Persian: Siu WILLIAM JONES. Major and Minor Cadences in Emphasis.... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...is made to point a noble moral : On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled : So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may's! smile, while all around thce weep. On the other hand, Sir Thomas Browne, quoting from Aristotle... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1892 - 502 pages
...Cf. the lines of Sir \Vm. Jones, ' There on the nurse's lap, a new-bom child, We saw thee weep, while all around thee smiled ; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Thon still mayst smile, while all around thee weep.' For the opinion of the ancients as to weeping... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1892 - 508 pages
...Cf. the lines of Sir Wm. Jones, ' There on the nurse's lap, a new-born child, We saw thee weep, while all around thee smiled; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou still mayst smile, while all around thee weep.' For the opinion of the ancients as to weeping... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1893 - 458 pages
...letters open breasts."— 1 IOWELL. " On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled : So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." —SIR \V. JONES, from Hie Persian. "Avito viret honorc."—Stuart Family... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...Persian by Sir William Jones:— " On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , . / 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 : ; while all around thee weep." EFFECTS OF TIME. In short, do you not see stone« even yield to the power... | |
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On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. 
