 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 636 pages
...independence of solitude." — EMERSON. "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." — Sm W. JoNES, from the Persian. THE summer of 1892 was full of quiet... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...Suhaili. (Translated from FirdousU 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. From the Persian, What constitutes a state ? Men who their duties know,... | |
 | Education - 1903 - 668 pages
...? You remember Sir William Jones's fine translation from the Arabic: On parents' knees, while yet a new-born child Weeping thou sat'st, whilst all around thee smiled, So live that, sinking to thy last, long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. Of course you all wish... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 776 pages
...HOME. I. ABOUT CHILDREN. THE BABY. ON parents' knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st when all around thee smiled : So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep. From the Sanscrit of KALIDASA. Translation of SIR... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1906 - 466 pages
...translated by Sir William Jones. 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. PERSIAN LITERATURE. PERIOD II. 900-1200 AD FTER the conquest of Persia... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...knees, a naked new-born child, [Naked on parent knees, a new-born child] Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou [Thou then] mayst smile, while all around thee weep, — CALIDASA, The Babe (trans, SIR WILLIAM JONES)... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 794 pages
...knew I were to be gone when the sun sets in the West, I would say, ' Thy will, О God, be done.' ' So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.1 " BRADDOCK, Edward, soldier. II. 59. " Who would have thought it ! " BRADFORD,... | |
 | Henry Morris - Biography - 1908 - 266 pages
...ORIENTAL SCHOLAR. AD 1783—1794. " On parent's 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." Persian Epigram, translated by Sir W. Jones. SIR WILLIAM JONES was the... | |
 | Edward Farley Oaten - Anglo-Indian literature - 1908 - 240 pages
...The lines are but a tetrastich: 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. differ from these as regards verbal detail. I give them as they appear... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary curiosa - 1909 - 1116 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'st smile, while all around thee weep. On the other hand, Sir Thomas Browne, quoting from Aristotle on " Animals"... | |
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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. 
