 | Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 pages
...Whether decline has thinned my hair, I'm sure I neither know nor care. But this I know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb I steal, That still, as...life are sweeter, dearer; And, had I but an hour to live, That little hour to bliss I'd give.' ' On the Necessity of Drinking. Younge. * This fertile earth... | |
 | Anacreon - 1804 - 194 pages
...justly remarks the elegant negligence of expression in the original hen t But this I know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb I steal, That still as...nearer,. The joys of life are sweeter, dearer ; And Eyu St rau XOfMU fAit HIr' iiiriv, EIr' And Longepierre has adduced from Catullus, what he thinks a... | |
 | Anacreon - 1804 - 310 pages
...,•] Henry Stephen very justly remarks the elegant negligence of expression in the original here : 62 That still, as death approaches nearer, The joys of...life are sweeter, dearer ; And had I but an hour to live, That little hour to bliss I'd give ! And Longepierre has adduced, from Catullus, what he thinks... | |
 | Thomas Condie - 1813 - 262 pages
...Whether decline has thinn'd my hair, I'm sure I neither know nor care ; But this I know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb I steal, That still, as...life are sweeter, dearer ; And had I but an hour to live, That little hour to bliss I'd give ! THE MORALIST. Hark the hollow moaning wind Sweeps along... | |
 | Anacreon - 1820 - 196 pages
...justly remarks the elegant negligence of expression in the original here : But this I know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb I steal, That still as...approaches nearer, The joys of life are sweeter, dearer ; rj:,: Si ras xop,at i..", EIr* tiffivt Kr' aTflXQov Oax' 0180. And Longepierre has adduced from Catullus,... | |
 | 1821 - 542 pages
...hair, I'm sure 1 neither know nor care ; But this 1 know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb 1 steal. That still as death approaches nearer. The...life are sweeter, dearer;* And had I but an hour to live, That little hour to bliss I'd give ! While Anacreon was thus enjoying himself with Sappho, I... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 376 pages
...in the original here : f.yu f't Tuf xoftuf fttt EIT tint, HT OUx tiia. But this I know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb I steal, That still as...life are sweeter, dearer ; And had I but an hour to live, That little hour to bliss I'd give ! And Longepierre has adduced from Catullus, what he a similar... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 378 pages
...Catullus, if he had not allowed a depraved imagination to hurry him so often into vulgar licentiousness. That still as death approaches nearer, The joys of life are sweeter, dearer ; ] Pontanus has • very delicate thought upon the subject of old age : Quid rides, Matrona? senem... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 332 pages
...if he had not allowed a depraved imagination to hurry him *o often into vulgar licentiousness. Tliat still as death approaches nearer The joys of life are sweeter, dearer ;] Pontanns has a very delicate thought upon the sujhect of old age ' Quid rides, Matrona? senem quid... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 470 pages
...â depraved ima«iaai.oa to harry Ыв м oftn into **" '"Mirrnaani. That still as death approche« nearer, The joys of life are sweeter, dearer; And...had I but an hour to lire, That little hour to bliss I 'd give ! ODE VIII. » I CABE not for the idle state Of Persia's king, the rich, the greal! I envy... | |
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Behold this mirror with a sigh; The locks upon thy brow are few, And, like the rest, they're withering too ! " Whether decline has thinned my hair, I'm sure I neither know nor care ; But this I know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb I steal, That... 
