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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. "
Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Page 266
by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 531 pages
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...HOWITT. 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,...
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Darwin, Carlyle, Dickens, the Fools, Jesters, and Comic Characters in ...

Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...thus — " 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. " It will be impossible for us to study the broad subject of mirth in its...
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Poems [a selection] ed. with a preface on the latest school of English ...

Alfred Thomas T. Verney- Cave (5th baron Braye.) - 1881 - 230 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. E nascente, puer, tibi subrisere propinqui,...
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Harper's Cyclopędia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...PERSIAN. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all arouud thce smiled : So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile while all around thce weep. AN ODE IN IMITATION OF ALC.EUS. What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised...
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Poems by Alfred, Lord Braye

Alfred Thomas Townshend Verney-Cave Braye (5th baron) - 1881 - 224 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. E nascente, puer, tibi subrisere propinqui,...
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When and where: a book of family events, ed. by D. and S. Veitch

Douglas Veitch - 1882 - 394 pages
...April 1. On parent's knee, a naked new born child Weeping thou sats't 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. If you desire to please, do not seek to please, but...
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Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed

Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...strung.1 Ibid. 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...
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Great Thoughts from Latin Authors

Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 688 pages
...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 theo weep." EFFECTS OF TIME. In short, do you not see stones even yield to the power...
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Great Thoughts from Latin Authors

Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 694 pages
...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." EFFECTS OF TIME. In short, do you not see stones even yield to the power...
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Epigram Evening

Epigrams - 1888 - 104 pages
...the Persian "On parent knees a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat while all around thee smiled; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile while all around thee weep.' (NB The way we all felt after trying to write an epigram, — CSK) UNCHOSEN...
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