 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.  The works of Sir William Jones - Page 70by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - Literary Criticism - 1801 - 328 pages
...— He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. SHAKSPEARE. Infancy. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled : So live, that sinking to thy life's last sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1805
...exquisitely beautiful tetrastich : ' On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'at, whilst all around thee smil'd : So live, that, sinking in...Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep.' P. 266. Every one must be delighted with the animated and interesting picture which his lordship gives... | |
 | Baron John Shore Teignmouth - 1806
...pleasure, the following beautiful tetrastick, which is a literal translation from the Persian : Oil parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou...all around thee weep. The hymns, which are original compositions, are descriptive of the Hindu deities, to whom they were addressed, and a short introductory... | |
 | Baron John Shore Teignmouth - 1806
...which is a literal trau Nation from the Persian: On pnrent knees, a naked, new-born child, W» -oping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd : So live,...all around thee weep. The hymns, which are original compositions, are descriptive of the Hindu deities, to whom they were addressed, and a short introductory... | |
 | 1806
...sheds a healing balm. And wafts them to the skies. For the Literary Magazine. TO A NEW-BORN CHILD. ON parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiPd: So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep. Calm thou may 'st smile, while all around thce... | |
 | Baron John Shore Teignmouth - 1806 - 531 pages
...with pleasure, the following beautiful tetrastick, which is a literal translation from the Persian : On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiFd : So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee... | |
 | 1806
...parent's knees, a naked neV born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thce smll'd ; So lire, that sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may^st smile, when all around thce weep." TO CORRESPONDENTS. WE have to apologize to H. for postponing lu. s piece on " Secret* retrod!... | |
![The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].](http://bks5.books.google.co.uk/books?id=bCsIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].") | Thomas Mortimer - 1810
...pleasure the following beautiful tetrastick, which is a. iilernl translation from the Persian :— On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou...while all around thee smil'd; So live, that sinking in f hy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep. The uniformity which marked... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - 396 pages
...admired 'countryman Sir William Jones has conveyed in the following lines— On parent knees behold a new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around...sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep! Mark the perfect man and behold the upright! for the end of that man —... | |
 | george wentworth - 1824
...cast, And, Tom, thy happiness increases fast. THE NEW-BOSN BABE. From the Persian, by Sir W. Jones. On parent knees a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'tl ; So live, that, sinking in my last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee... | |
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