 Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together ? And dost thou prune thy trembling wing; To take thy flight thou know'st not whither ? Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly Lies all neglected, all forgot : And pensive, wavering,...  The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior - עמוד 134מאת Matthew Prior - 1907 - 150 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 דפים
...FIIIOR. Poor little, pretty, ftutt'ring thing, Must we no longer live together ? And dost tliou prime thy trembling wing, To take thy flight thou know'st...folly Lies all neglected, all forgot : And pensive, wav'ring, melancholy, Thou dread' st and hop' at thou know'st not what. Young Poj>e followed suit,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1883 - 562 דפים
...— " Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing I Must we no longer live together ? And dost thou plume thy trembling wing To take thy flight thou know'st...not whither ? Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly, Lie all neglected, all forgot ; And pensive, wavering, melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1885 - 330 דפים
...Pallidula, rigida, nudula? Nee ut soles dabis joca." Lines which have been thus imitated by Prior— " Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer...melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what." Severus' restless pursuit after happiness was equally vain. His dying words are said to have been "... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 634 דפים
...improve my mind, of whatever party or denomination they are. . . . Adriani Morientis ad Anitnam,. 1 Poor, little, pretty fluttering thing! Must we no longer live together ? And dost thou prune thy doubtful wing, To take thy flight thou know'st not whither t Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly,... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 דפים
...loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula? Nee, ut soles, dabis joca.' Adriani morientis ad animam suam. ' Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer...melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what." Prior. In The Spectator, No. 532, is a letter from Pope to Steele on these 'famous verses which the... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1889 - 326 דפים
...friend. *'Poor dear Beauclerk — nee, ut soles, dabis joca." (Birkbeck Hill's BosviM, 1887, iii. 420.)] And dost thou prune thy trembling wing ; To take thy...melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what. TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD, THE AUTHOR SUPPOS'D FORTY. LORDS, knights, and "squires, the... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 דפים
...When bright and dusky are blown past, Upon the hearse there nods the last. CLXXIX. To His SOUL. POOR little, pretty fluttering thing, Must we no longer...not whither ? Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly Lie all neglected, all forgot: And pensive, wavering, melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 דפים
...sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. Sir William Jones. CLXXIV. TO HIS SOUL. POOR little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer...not whither ? Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly Lie all neglected, all forgot: And pensive, wavering, melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st... | |
 | Derbyshire Archaeological Society - 1891 - 1326 דפים
...well-known lines, " Hadrian's Address to his Soul," which have been translated as follows : — " Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together? And dost thou prune tliy trembling wing, To take thy flight thou know 'si not whither ? Thy humorous vein, ihy pleasing... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1895 - 328 דפים
...Pallidula, rigifla, nudula ? Nee ut soles dabis joca. Lines which have been thus imitated by Prior : Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together, And dost thou prune thy trembling wing,i To take thy flight thou know'st not whither? Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly, Lies all... | |
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