| Robert Bland - English poetry - 1833 - 468 pages
...violet. V. (2, 3.) FROM SCATTERED FRAGMENTS. M. VAIN it is for those to weep Who repose in Death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. IBYCUS.f THIS poet, a native of Rhegium in Italy, flourished in the time of Croesus, from the fifty-fourth... | |
| John Herman Merivale - English poetry - 1838 - 392 pages
...and honour shuts the door. FROM STESICHORUS. VAIN it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. FROM CLEOBULUS. ON THE TOMB OF MIDAS. SCULPTURED in brass, a virgin bright, on Midas' tomb I stand.... | |
| William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...gems, rich rows of purple violet. FRAGMENT. VAIN it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With Man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. JSSOP. [About 620 B. CJ A PHHTOIAN and of servile origin. — After having passed by sale from master... | |
| William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 568 pages
...of purple violet. FRAGMENT. VAIÎT it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. Witli Man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. Ж80Р. [About ft» В. С ] A PBBTOIAIT and of servile origin. — After having passed by Bale from... | |
| Abraham Mills - Greek literature - 1858 - 498 pages
...gems, rich rows of purple violet. A FRAGMENT. Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. Alcaeus was a native of Mitylene, in the island of Lesbos, and was born 020 AC His family was influential... | |
| Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis - American drama - 1878 - 186 pages
...swell your lyres, Rapture calls, and wine inspires. UMPIRE Stesichorus, the Dorian, next. * STESICHOBUS Vain it is for us to weep That we all in death must...joy and pleasure, Fill the goblet without measure. UMPIEE Theognis of Magara. THEOGNIS Ah, me ! Alike o'er youth and age I sigh — Impending youth and... | |
| Charles Morris - Authors, Greek - 1880 - 442 pages
...purple violet." — Merivale. A FRAGMENT. " Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory." — Langlwrne. ALCJS'US. FLOURISHED ABOUT 610 BC This poet, one of the most famous of the lyric writers... | |
| Hugh Percy Jones - Quotations - 1900 - 570 pages
...o'er thy beauties here. 'A i^i . —Alenandcr. Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in Death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and (jlory. — Jtffi iraff. Self-will, by itself, In one who is not wise is less than nought. — Plumptrc.... | |
| Hugh Percy Jones - 1908 - 562 pages
...To wander o'er thy beauties here. — Moore. Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in Death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. — Mcrivale. Self-will, by itself, In one who is not wise is less than nought. — Plumptre. Noble... | |
| Charles Morris - Anthologies - 1888 - 536 pages
...of purple violet. MERIVALE. THE END OF MAN. Vain it is for those to weep Who repose in death's last sleep. With man's life ends all the story Of his wisdom, wit, and glory. LAxanoRNE. [Half a century later, about 610 BC, flourished a poet of higher note in the lyric ranks,... | |
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