 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...of Hafiz. 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...stands. 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 W. JONES: from the Persian. Seldom have I ceased to eye Thy infancy,... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...PERSIAN. ON parent 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 may'st smile, while all around thee weep. What boots it to repeat How time is slipping underneath our feet ? Un-born... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...Persian. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thcc smiled ; earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by while all around thee weep. NATHANIEL COTTON. NATHANIEL COTTON (1721-1788) wrote Visions in Verse,... | |
 | Epigrams - Epigrams, English - 1877 - 130 pages
...New-born Babe. 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 being Locked in in Kensington Gardens. FROM Paradise Adam and Eve were... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pages
...struck the cheerful scene, The lawns, the woods, were not so green. — Whitehead. Sage Domestic virtue. So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. — Sir W. Jones. Sage, Garden Esteem. Eternal blessings crown my earliest... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Sterling. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled ; mage of good Que while all around thee weep. Sir W. Janes : from Ihe Persian. So to live that when the sun Of our existence... | |
 | Alfred Thomas T. Verney- Cave (5th baron Braye.) - 1877 - 320 pages
...' ' The morn that ushered thee to life, my child, Saw thee in tears, 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 W. JONES, FROM THE ARABIC. Te nascente, puer, tibi subrisere propinqui,... | |
 | Alfred Thomas T. Verney- Cave (5th baron Braye.) - 1877 - 318 pages
...TRANSLATION. " The morn that ushered thee to life, my child, Saw thee in tears, 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 W. JONES, FROM THE ARABIC, ( Te nascente, puer, tibi subrisere propinqui,... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...thee." " 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." — SIR WM. JONES. Epigrams often assume the form of epitaphs, and are... | |
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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. 
