 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dales ine airy nest> As still as a brooding dove. That orbed...glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight THE HEAD-DRESS NO. 98. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1711 Tanta est quaerendi cura dccoris? — Juv. Sal. vi. 500.... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 132 Seiten
...an old acquaintance, where he signed and sealed his will with a firm and cheerful countenance. (24) When I read the several dates of the tombs of some...be contemporaries and make our appearance together. (25) Then all who were present burst into tears, and cried with one voice: ' Let us die together in... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 Seiten
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. C No. 35 Tuesday, April 10, 1711. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.—Catull. 1 Among all kinds of... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1915 - 628 Seiten
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries and make our appearance together.' ' deminutio} ie in prestige and moral influence, not in territory. conqua8satu< \ * convulsed,' cp.... | |
 | David Womersley, Paddy Bullard, Abigail Williams - 2005 - 388 Seiten
...Contests and Disputes, I reflect with Sorrow and Astonishment on the little Competitions, Factions, and Debates of Mankind. When I read the several Dates of the Tombs, of some that dy'd yesterday, and some six hundred Years ago, I consider that great Day when we shall all of us be... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 281 Seiten
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries, and make our appearance together.' Note the melody and strength in these four lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism : ' Soft is the strain... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 Seiten
...of mankind. And, when I read the several dates on the tombs of some that died yesterday and some 600 years ago, I consider that Great Day when we shall...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." Our third humourist comes to speak upon the same subject. You will have observed in the previous extracts... | |
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... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,... 
