 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
![The Home and foreign review [formerly The Rambler].](http://bks0.books.google.co.uk/books?id=--EEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The Home and foreign review [formerly The Rambler].") | 1863
...When I offer'd myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted and called me an ugly old fellow." 1 " 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... | |
 | History
...The proceeds of the whole amounted to £6. THOMAS WIKSTOM. FROM THE PERSIAN.— BY SIB W. JONES. " 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 ma/st smile while all around thee... | |
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...Persian by Sir William Jones : — " On Parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, whilst all around thee smil'd, So live, that, sinking in...Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep." CAN GYNTAF HOEACE. Amrywiaeth tueddiadan dynion, a dewislad y Bardd. 0 M^ICRNAS, hil brenhinoedd, (Ti... | |
 | 1864
...is in the right.' " Then, alluding to the following from the Persian poet Hafiz, — ' On parent's knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled : So live, that, sinking in the last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, whilst all around thee... | |
 | John Booth, John Booth (B.A., Cambridge) - History - 1865 - 327 pages
...myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted and called me an ugly old fellow.' FROM THE PERSIAN. ' 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... | |
 | Epigrams - History - 1865
...myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted and called me an ugly old fellow.' FROM THE PERSIAN. ' 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 thce... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1865 - 337 pages
...fragment, translated by Sir William Jones from the Persian, has long been familiar to thousands : — " 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 480 pages
...Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung. A Persian Song of Hafiz. 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... | |
 | Allan Freer - 1865
...loved the brightest fair : But love can hope where reason would despair." Lord Lyttleton. " On parents' 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 may'st smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866
...thy pride, that the beasts must have starved and the poet died. A. POPE TO A FRIEND ON HIS BIRTHDAY ON parent knees a naked newborn 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, whilst all around... | |
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