Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by H.A. Holden, Volume 2Hubert Ashton Holden 1864 |
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... gentle heart . Fear still attends upon the steps of wrong . Their fears are most who know not what they fear . Deaf as the sea , hasty as fire , is anger . Hateful to God and to good men are lies . 95 To the sorrowful sorrow seems to ...
... gentle heart . Fear still attends upon the steps of wrong . Their fears are most who know not what they fear . Deaf as the sea , hasty as fire , is anger . Hateful to God and to good men are lies . 95 To the sorrowful sorrow seems to ...
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... gentle gale . POVERTY AND RICHES HO with a little cannot be content , endures an everlasting punishment . or LAWS HEN lawes full power have to sway , we see little or no part there of tyranny . 179 WHO 180 WHE 181 RE 182 183 184 NO ...
... gentle gale . POVERTY AND RICHES HO with a little cannot be content , endures an everlasting punishment . or LAWS HEN lawes full power have to sway , we see little or no part there of tyranny . 179 WHO 180 WHE 181 RE 182 183 184 NO ...
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... gentle mind by gentle deeds is knowne ; THE as by his manners ; in which plain is showne of what degree , and what race , he is growne . E. SPENSER 230 231 232 233 O AGE HOW shall summer's honey into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 13.
... gentle mind by gentle deeds is knowne ; THE as by his manners ; in which plain is showne of what degree , and what race , he is growne . E. SPENSER 230 231 232 233 O AGE HOW shall summer's honey into Greek Tragic Iambic Verse 13.
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... gentle heart , that inly feeds itself with thoughts unkind , and nourisheth her own consuming smart ? What medicine can any leech's art yield such a sore , that doth her grievance hide , and will to none her malady impart ? USES OF ...
... gentle heart , that inly feeds itself with thoughts unkind , and nourisheth her own consuming smart ? What medicine can any leech's art yield such a sore , that doth her grievance hide , and will to none her malady impart ? USES OF ...
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... gentle showers ; give nothing that is loud or painful to his slumbers ; easy , light , and as a purling stream ... gently , oh , gently slide , and kiss him into slumbers like a bride . J. FLETCHER 354 355 356 357 THE PRISON CHAMBER OOK ...
... gentle showers ; give nothing that is loud or painful to his slumbers ; easy , light , and as a purling stream ... gently , oh , gently slide , and kiss him into slumbers like a bride . J. FLETCHER 354 355 356 357 THE PRISON CHAMBER OOK ...
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Page 478 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 201 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 375 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 435 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none ; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 209 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction...
Page 431 - And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 514 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 289 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 183 - By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 431 - He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.