 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 242 pagini
...he loved to repeat : — " On parents' knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, whilst all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last, long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, whilst all around thee weep." He did not wish to see those about him look sad and gloomy. On one occasion... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pagini
...of thine be good and holy, And thy worst woe, a pensive melancholy. FROM THE PERSIAN. SIR W. JONES. ON parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping...sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee wee]). THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE. " GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER." MRS. LH SIGOURNEV.... | |
 | Henry Ingersoll Bowditch - 1841 - 190 pagini
...was quiet, he quoted his favorite passage from Hafez, one of the sweetest of the poets of Persia : " So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." On another similar occasion, when one who was near him had a sad countenance, he told her to be cheerful,... | |
 | 1841 - 188 pagini
...the bed of death ; and remember this thought, as expressed by Hafez, the sweet poet of Persia, — " So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep." Then, should you be spared to wear that "crown of glory," — the venerable gray head, you will be... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1841 - 558 pagini
...is cruel because it is wrong:"f and again, in the beautiful lines, from the Arabic, by Sir W. Jones: On Parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smil'd ; So live, that sinking on thy last long sleep, Thou then may'st smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1841 - 374 pagini
...cruel because it is wrong : " and again, in the beautiful lines, from the Arabic, by Sir W. Jones : On Parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smil'il; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou then may'st smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - 1842 - 418 pagini
...idea that all these are the works of a being who designs, contrives, thinks, and acts? A Vision, " On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping...Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." THE beautiful sentiment in the above stanza, translated from the Persian by Sir William Jones, struck... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pagini
...of the present digression, the translation is by Sir W. Jones— On parent knees, a naked new born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled, So live, that, sinking to thy last long sleep, Thou then may'st smile, while all around thee weep. To return to the behaviour... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 632 pagini
...beautiful antithetical expression is furnished us by the Persian poet BftHft: * Ov parent's knee, a nuked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in (hy last long sleep. Calm thou inayest smile, while all uround thee weep.' THERE are periods in nearly... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 352 pagini
...know, and, if he has, to remember. Thee on thy Mother's knees, a new-born child, In tears we saw when all around thee smiled. So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Smiles may be thine, when all around thee.weep. For my version I am in a great measure indebted to... | |
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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. 
