Select Epigrams of MartialR. and J. Dodsley, 1755 - 119 страници |
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Страница 71 - My cause concerns nor battery nor treason ; I sue my neighbour for this only reason, That late three sheep of mine to pound he drove : This is the point the court would have you prove. Concerning Magna Charta you run on. And all the perjuries of old King John ; Then of the Edwards and Black Prince you rant, And talk of John o' Stiles and John o' Gaunt: With voice and hand a mighty pother keep.
Страница 219 - Still let him busy be, and in a crowd, And very much a slave, and very proud : Thus he perhaps powerful and rich may grow ; No matter, O ye gods ! that I'll allow: But let him peace and freedom never see ; Let him not love this life, who loves not me ! MARTIAL, Lib. II. Ep. liii. Vis fieri liber ? &c.
Страница 231 - To-morrow you will live, you always cry. In what far country does this 'morrow' lie, That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive? Beyond the Indies does this 'morrow '-live? 'Tis so far-fetched, this 'morrow,' that I fear, Twill be both very old and very dear. "To-morrow I will live," the fool does say : To-day itself 's too late,— the wise lived yesterday.
Страница 217 - Well then, Sir, you shall know how far extend The prayers and hopes of your poetic friend. He does not palaces nor manors crave, Would be no lord, but less a lord would have ; The ground he holds, if he his own can call, He quarrels not with heaven, because 'tis small : Let gay and toilsome greatness others please, He loves of homely littleness the ease.
Страница 225 - Wonder not, sir (you who instruct the town In the true wisdom of the sacred gown), That I make haste to live, and cannot hold Patiently out, till I grow rich and old. Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
Страница 229 - Sleep, not control'd by cares, confin'd to night, Or bound in any rule but appetite ; Free, but not...
Страница 235 - Where poverty itself in plenty flows And all the solid use of riches knows. The ground about the house maintains it there, The house maintains the ground about it here Here even hunger's dear, and a full board Devours the vital substance of the lord. The land itself does there the feast bestow, The land itself must here to market go.
Страница 235 - Instead of art and luxury in food, Let mirth and freedom make thy table good. If any cares into thy day-time creep, At night, without wine's opium, let them sleep. Let rest, which nature does to darkness wed, And not lust, recommend to thee thy bed. Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well the...
Страница 227 - Honest and poor, faithful in word and thought ; What has thee, Fabian, to the city brought ? Thou neither the buffoon nor bawd canst play, Nor with false whispers th...
Страница 229 - T enjoy at once a quiet life and thee ; If we for happiness could leisure find, And wandering time into a method bind ; We should not sure the great-men's favour need, Nor on long hopes, the court's thin diet, feed ; We should not patience find daily to hear The calumnies and flatteries spoken there ; We should not the lords...