 I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that...  The Retrospective Review - Page 551824Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1889 - 298 pages
...of poetry ... I must send you in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph." Poetry has often been compared with painting and sculpture. Simonides long ago said that Poetry is... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Great Britain - 1889 - 396 pages
...behalf of all Poets : that while you live, you live in love and never get fervour, for lacking skin of a sonnet; and when you die, your memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph.' I will only add with reference to this beautiful Treatise that if the reader has time and inclination... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1889 - 238 pages
...all Poets, that while you liue, you liue in loue, and neuer yet fauour, for lacking skill of a Sonet: and when you die, your memory die from the earth, for want of an Epitaphe. UN1S. 1) 0. Hercules (Dn,ckf.). 2) 0. Cataphracts. 3) 0. sddiesst L2. A nhan g. I. Die Widmung... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1890 - 514 pages
...of poetry ... I must send you in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph." Poetry has often been compared with painting and sculpture. Simonides long ago said that Poetry is... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English fiction - 1890 - 466 pages
...much curse I must send you, in the behalfe of all Poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sonnet :...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph." Neither did Sidney lack epitaphs ; all the poets wept for him ; nor was he wanting in those favours... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...of all poets : — that while you live you live in love, and never get favor for lacking skill of 1s a sonnet ; and when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. NOTES. 1 1. Edward Wotton. One of Sidney's dearest friends, whom he remembered in the will made on... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 206 pages
...of all poets : — that while you live you live in love, and never get favor for lacking skill of 15 a sonnet ; and when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. NOTES. 1 1. Edward Wotton. One of Sidney's dearest friends, whom he remembered in the will made on... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 304 pages
...poetry ... I must send you in the behalf of -all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph." Poetry has often been compared with painting and sculpture. Simonides long ago said that Poetry is... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Chivalry - 1891 - 462 pages
...this much curse I must send you, in behalf of all poets — that, while you live, you live in love and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and,...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." The mocking tone in which Sidney ended his " Defence of Poesy " often shows itself in his " Arcadia,"... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 pages
...much curse I must send you, in the behalfe of all Poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a Sonnet :...memory die from the earth, for want of an Epitaph. 84 Born of a frtcdman father. M If my songs avail. 85 The offspring of Hercules. " a dull, stupid person.... | |
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