 | English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...horam, Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis : at ills Labitur, et labetur in omrie volubilis aevum. HoR. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers...gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. CowLEV. AN ancientpoet, unreasonably discontented at the present state of things, which his system... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...given one example of representative versification, which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He, who defers this work from day to day, Doe« oTi a river's bank expefting stay Till the whole strerm that stopp'd him shall be gone, Which... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1805 - 908 pages
...would pass away. All must remember the beautiful translation of Cowley, " Begin, be bold, and ventnre to be wise ; He who defers this work from day to day,...bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopt him, should be gour. That runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on." On the contrary the temporary... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1806 - 416 pages
...waited in hopes its waters would pass away. All must remember the beautiful translation of Cowley, " Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers...bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopt him, should be gone, That runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on." On the contrary the temporary... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...given one example of representative versification, which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He, who defers...river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone, Which runs, and as it runs, for ever shall run on. Cowley was, I believe,... | |
 | Biography - 1806 - 214 pages
...however, numerous beauties scattered throughout his works, of which the following is a happy specimen: Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers...day to day. Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Tjll the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone* Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever shall run... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...verfification, which perhaps no other Englifh line can equal: Begin, be bold, and venture to be wife : He, who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting ftay Till the whole fiream thatftopp'd him fhall be gorje, • Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 290 pages
...at ille " Labitur, & labetur in omne volubilis aevumt." Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; lie who defers this work from day to day, . Does on a river's bank expecting stay, « Lib. i. Agric. f 1 Ep. u. 40. Till the whole stream, which stopp'd him, should be gone, That runs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...example of representative versification, which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin, be boH, and venture to be wise ; He, who defers this work from day to da)', Does on a river's bink expecting stay Till the whole siream that s'opp'd him shall be gone, IVhich... | |
 | 1806 - 468 pages
...day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting ftay, Till the whole ftream, which ftopp'd him, fhould be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. COWLET. N ancient poet, unreafonably .difcontented at the prefent ftate of things, which his fyftem... | |
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on. 
