 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1906 - 466 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Farley Oaten - Anglo-Indian literature - 1908 - 240 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Morris - Biography - 1908 - 266 pages
...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 John Hardy - Conduct of life - 1910 - 326 pages
...dying : "On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping, thou sat'st, whilst all around thee smiled. So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep." This IOAN DEPT. L,D 21A-50>n-4 '60 (A9562slO)476B .General Library rmyp* Cal Berkeley ... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Old age - 1911 - 224 pages
...nisi mortis imago ? Hom. II. XIV. 231, Death's brother, Sleep ; Sir Wm. Jones, from the Persian : — So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep ; Scott's Lady 'of the Lake, Cant. I.: — Sleep the sleep that knows not... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1914 - 284 pages
...— " Once on thy mother's knee, a 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." 4. Attempt only one of the following : — (a) Describe, in the form of... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...LOGAN. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; 80 live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. From the Persi' What constitutes a state ? Men who their duties know, But... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 406 pages
...wink. ON parent's knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping, thou sat'st, when 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, THE hours of sleep are thus expressed in a rhyme, the... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...Persian On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd : So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile while all around thee weep. Written in Berkeley's " Siris " Before thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...the Persian parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou satst, when all around thee smil'd : So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, when all around thee weep. The Asiatick Miscellany, ii, 1786 RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 1751-1816 337 Song HAD I a heart for falsehood... | |
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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. 
