 | Richard Whately - 1855 - 560 pagini
...cruel because it is wrong : " t and again, in the beautiful lines, from the Arabic, by Sir W. Jones : On Parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou...while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking on thy last long sleep, Thou then mayst smile, while all around thee weep. All of these are instances... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pagini
...; But all our joy shall be in God ; For only God is heaven ! FROM THE PERSIAN. BAILEY. ON parent's knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smil'd; So live, that sinking in thy last sad sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagini
...simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung. From the Persian. On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou...Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. Ode in Imitation of Alcceus. What constitutes a state ? Men who their duties know, But know their rights,... | |
 | Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1856 - 588 pagini
...naked", new-born child, Weeping them sat'st, while all around thee smiled ; So live that, sinking iii thy last, long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep."* * Translation by Sir William Jones. The infant whose birth is recorded in the present verse is Moses,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1890 - 552 pagini
...correct me, — but they run in my memory thus : — " On nurse's knee, a naked, new-born child, \Veeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled. So live that, sinking in the last long sleep, Thou mayest smile, while all around thee weep." To me these lines, from birth... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 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. (H) The anecdote here alluded to is related by Valerius... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pagini
...us how to live; and — oh, too high A price for knowledge! — tanght us hew to die. — TICEELL. On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around theo smiled; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile while all around thee... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pagini
...thought, and every deed, May hold within itself tho seed Of future good and future meed. RM MILNES. So live that sinking in thy last, long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. So in the passing of a day doth pass The bud and blossom of the life of man ; Nor e'er doth flourish... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 138 pagini
...wrong, because it is cruel ; but cruel because it is wrong. On parent knees, a naked, new-born child"1, Weeping, thou sat'st," while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou then mayst smile, while all around thee weep. ~ ~ Sir W. Jones. He who dreads new remedies"1 must... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 462 pagini
...but cruel be* cause it is wrong. On parent knees, a naked, new-born child"1, Weeping, thou sat'st,"1 while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou then mayst smile, while all around thee weep. * Sir W. Jones. He who dreads new remedies"1 must... | |
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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. 
