Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Página 4631853Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 páginas
...dolorou« gloom, Nor think vain words' (he cries) ' can ease my Rather I .huso laboriously to bear [doom. A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave...bread ; Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead. Bnt say, if in my steps my son proceeds, And emulates his godlike father's deeds ? If at the clash... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 páginas
...Kor think vain words' (he cries) ' can ease my Bather I chuse laboriously to bear [doom. A «eijht of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some...bread ; Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead. Bot say, if in my steps my son proceeds, And emulates his godlike father's deeds ? if at the clash... | |
| 1813 - 386 páginas
...not of ruling, in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.. But say, if in my steps my son proceeds, And emulates his godlike father's deeds ? If at the clash... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 páginas
..."Talk not of ruling in this dol'rous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cry'd) can ease my doom. Rather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead!" Po/ie'a Odyss. Book xi, 1. 595 — 600. NOTE 4 — Socrates is represented by Plato as thus expressing... | |
| Robert Gilmour, Douthal - 1815 - 372 páginas
...Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign thesceptered monarch of the dead." POPE. No. 5. Ogvan, the son of Corci, void of fear. P. 293. This... | |
| Elizabeth Carter - 1817 - 382 páginas
...all the excellencies of Rendered by Pope, with unusual closeness, - • '.- * • " Rather I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Thau reign the scepter'd monarch of the dead." Dr. Clark, in his note on the passage of Homer, quotes... | |
| REV. MONTAGU PENNINGTON - 1817 - 380 páginas
...with unusual closeness, " Rather I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vitul air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the scepter'd monarch of the dead." Dr. Clark, in his note on the passage of Homer, quotes also Virgil's... | |
| Elizabeth Carter - 1817 - 378 páginas
...excellencies ot Rendered by Pope, with unusual closeness, . - •>• i e. .•' ; • " Rather I chuse laboriously to bear • .'• A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, * A /slave tp some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the scepter'd monarch of the dead." ',-. .,„,....,..... | |
| Homerus - 1818 - 434 páginas
...595 Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I choose laboriously to bear A wtigiit of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread; Than reign the scepter'd monarch of the dead. 600 But say, if in my steps my son proceeds, And emulates his godlike... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 348 páginas
...Talk not of ruling, in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I 'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead. But say, if in my steps my son proceeds, And emulates his godlike father's deeds? If at the clash of... | |
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