 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
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1863 - 352 páginas
...Under-world might have been made from the time when Homer let the shade of Achilles lament — " Rather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead."* Thus it is evident that even in the age of Pericles it had not come out of Hades, the realm of the... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 424 páginas
...àvbpl тгар' ак\т]рф, (Д /jr] ßioros TTO\ÙS eï-rj, TI irâtriv VÇKÙÇGGL Ka Rather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead. See Milton, Paradise Lost, i. 252. DEATH BY HUNGER. Odyss. xii. 341. iravres likv ffTirycpol 6a.va.Toi... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1869 - 456 páginas
...eternal thunders of the deep, Into my ears this truth : Thou liv'st forever." BYROK. ** Better, by far, laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, Slave to the meanest hind that begs his bread, Than icign the sceptred monarch of the dead." Odynty.... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1870 - 458 páginas
...eternal thunders of the deep, Into my ears this truth : Thou liv'st forever." BYRON. 1 Better, by far, laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, Slave to the meanest hind that begs his bread, Than reign the sceptred 'monarch of the dead." Odyssey.... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1872 - 448 páginas
...eternal thunders of the deep, Into my ears this truth : Thou liv'st forever." BYRON. 44 Better, by far, laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, Slave to the meanest hind that begs his bread, Than icign the sceptred monarch of the dead." Odyssey*... | |
 | Christoph Ernst Luthardt - 1873 - 474 páginas
...Talk not of ruling in this dol'rous gloom Nor think vain words (he cried) can. ease my doom, Eather I choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes and breathe...bread Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.' Pope's Translation. (1 9) It was customary at feasts and drinking parties to place a silver skeleton... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 394 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...for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.10 But say, if in my steps my son proceeds, And emulates his godlike father's deeds ? If at the... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 72 páginas
...reigning in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words," he cries, "can ease my doom, Rather I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe...bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead." —POPE'S Translation. 264 Then. If our state is not so hopeless. 265 Copartners. An exception to the... | |
 | John George Wood - 1874 - 356 páginas
...ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. upon the Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes and breathe...some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptered monarch of the dead." Coleridge Coleridge well remarks of this passage, manteia. Necyo- and... | |
 | John George Wood - 1875 - 148 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." Coleridge well remarks of this passage, and indeed of the whole of the Necyomanteia, that it is "remarkable... | |
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