The Progress of Life; Or, Youth, Maturity and Old Age: a Poem ...1868 |
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alchemy Anacreon ancient anni auctoritas Authority hath crown'd Bellerophon betimes bids blest boasted best boasts less sturdy breast Cicer comes Cornaro crowd decay'd deed deep delight Demosthenes doubt dream E'en earth Eneid Epist ev'ry extend eyes fame Fancy fears fix'd flies forsakes friendship fruitful present share gather'd griefs o'ercast gen'rous give grace grave haste Herodotus hopes hopes and fears Iliad Ilion length less sturdy stuff LIVERPOOL Luigi Cornaro mind mortalibus Nature neath night NOTE 12 NOTES TO CANTO numbers nymph o'er o'erflow old age pain pass'd passion Plato pleasure Plin Polycrates possess'd pride rage resign'd rise Sallust scarce scene senectus shade shine skies slave oppress'd slow smile soon Sophocles soul sound stopp'd stray'd strays strength sudden tale taste thee thine fair Tempe thou Thucydides toil truth at last verse walls his old wealth wisdom hath betray'd wretch youth
Popular passages
Page 101 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 103 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 93 - Tum porro puer, ut saevis proiectus ab undis Navita, nudus humi iacet, infans, indigus omni Vitali auxilio, cum primum in luminis oras Nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit, Vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut aecumst Cui tantum in vita restet transire malorum.
Page 96 - Congestions of heavy, dark, melancholy and Monkish Piles, without any just Proportion, Use or Beauty, compared with the truly Ancient. So as when we meet with the greatest Industry, and expensive Carving, full of fret and lamentable Imagery...
Page 94 - Quails popule& moerens Philomela sub umbra Amissos queritur foetus, quos durus arator Observans nido implumes detraxit ; at ilia Flet noctem, ramoque sedens miserabile carmen Integral, et moestis late loca questibus implet.
Page 103 - Again in 307-313 : sic hominum genus est. quamvis doctrina politos constituat pariter quosdam, tamen ilia relinquit naturae cuiusque animi vestigia prima. nee radicitus evelli mala posse putandumst, quin proclivius hie iras decurrat ad acris, ille metu citius paulo temptetur, at ille tertius accipiat quaedam clementius aequo.
Page 109 - Frequenter comoedis cena distinguitur, ut voluptates quoque studiis condiantur; sumit aliquid de nocte, et aestate; nemini hoc longum est; tanta comitate convivium trahitur! Inde illi post septimum et septuagesimum annum aurium oculorumque vigor integer, inde agile et vividum corpus, solaque ex senectute prudentia.
Page 98 - Historiam multi scripsere praeclare, sed nemo dubitat longe duos ceteris praeferendos, quorum diversa virtus laudem paene est parem consecuta. Densus et brevis et semper instans sibi THUCYDIDES...
Page 93 - ... vellera. Truncos etiam arboresque cortice, interdum gemino, a frigoribus et calore tutata est. Hominem tantum nudum et in nuda humo, natali die abjicit ad vagitus statim et ploratum, nullumque tot animalium aliud ad lacrymas, et has protinus vitee principio.
Page 105 - ... quid tam ridiculum quam adpetere mortem, cum uitam inquietam tibi feceris metu mortis.' his adicias et illud eiusdam notae licet: tantam hominum imprudentiam esse, immo dementiam, ut quidam timore mortis cogantur ad mortem.