| Select lessons - 1785 - 156 頁
...Great, Refts crown'd with Princes Honours, Poejs Lays Due to his Merit, and brave Thirft of ftaife. Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her Works; and dying, fears herfelf may die. Oaths Czar Peter the Great. PLAIN DEALER. Here under Depofited Lies All that cou'd die, of a Man Immortal,... | |
| Lodovico Ariosto - 1785 - 460 頁
...Godfrey Kneller. Hie eft ille Raphael, timuit quo fofpite vine! Reium magno paicns, ct moricntc inOri. Living great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works, and dying fears herfelf may die. POPE'S Epitaph on Sir G. Kneller. Arioftb was himfelf contemporary with all the modern artifts here... | |
| David Henry - 1785 - 292 頁
...&e/ls crown'd with prince! honours, poeis lays t Dae to his merit, and brave thirft ofpraife< Lilting, great nature fear'd he might outvie Her works; and dying, fears herfelf may dlt. 88. GENERAL LAWRENCE. This is a moft fuperb monument, erected at the expence of the EaftInaia... | |
| 1786 - 494 頁
...whatever fphere they may be ThU has been imitated by Pope in hi» epitaph on Sir Godfrey Kneller : Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works; and dying, fears herfclf may die. S44 Account fif Caroline CoUtgt at Brunfwick. be placed, whether in court, in public... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 頁
...fate Whate'cr was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes honours, Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirft of praife. Living,...outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herfelf may die. Of this epitaph the firft couplet is good, the fecond not bad, the third is deformed with a broken... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 頁
...fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes honours, Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirft of praife. Living,...outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herfelf may die. Of this epitaph the firft couplet is good, the fecond not bad, the third is deformed with a broken... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 頁
...Fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes honours, Poet's lays, Due to his Merit, and brave Thirft of praife. Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works j.and, dying, fears herfelf may die. f IMITATIONS. VER. 7. Ifnitated from the famous Epitaph on Raphael.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 頁
...whatc'cr was great, Lies crowu'd with Princes honours. Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave third of praife. Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herlelf may die. Of this epitaph the firft couplet is good, the fecond not bud, the third is deformed... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1788 - 548 頁
...vinci Rerum magna parens, et moriente mori. Imitated by Pope in his Epitaph on Sir QoUfrey Kneller : Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works -, and dying, fears herfelf might die. Such is the force of imitation ; for Pope of himfelf would never have been guilty of a thought... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 398 頁
...Fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes honours, Poets lays, Due to his Merit, and brave Thirft of praife. Living,...outvie Her works; and, dying, fears herfelf may die. . , IX. On General HENRY WITHERS; In Wefbninfter- Abbey, 1729. HERE, Wi THER s , reft ! thou braveft,... | |
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