 WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in...  Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and ... - Página 13por James Beattie - 1779 - 515 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 páginas
...thy love for every one Hath brought thee to be lov'd by none ! " Tentanda via est, &c." "1S/HAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die. Unless you write my elegy; Whilst others great, by being... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 páginas
...it thoroughly and successfully. MISCELLANIES. vOL. I. THE MOTTO. " Tentanda via est, &c." WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 272 páginas
...of Aglaus with so much pleasure, was no stranger to courts, nor insensible of praise. " What shall I do to be for ever known. And make the age to come my own !" was the result of a laudable ambition. It was not till after frequent disappointments that he termed... | |
 | 1839 - 870 páginas
...many of our poets have asked of themselves with a heartfelt and assiduous importunity — " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own . " How many have answered the enquiry by the exclamation — " Hence all the flattering vanitica that... | |
 | 1823 - 746 páginas
...involved in the simple possessives me and mine — and we all cry out in common chorus, What shall I do to be for ever known. And make the age to come mine own ? Since, then, the whole tribe of which I am an unworthy member, have one by one poured out... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 304 páginas
...of Aglaiis with so much pleasure, was no stranger to courts, nor insensible of praise. " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?" was the result of a laudable ambition. It was not until after frequent disappointments that he termed... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 310 páginas
...of Aglaiis with so much pleasure, was no stranger to courts, nor insensible of praise. " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to coine my own?" was the result of a laudable ambition. It was not until after frequent disappointments... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...are few who can compare with Mm in elegant simplicity. THE MOTTO. Th.NTAKl.A VIA 1ST, &C. ' HAT shall shall, like beasts or common people, die. Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 páginas
...brings, We'll easily see each other; Love hath wings. THE MOTTO. " Tentanda via est, &c." WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being... | |
 | 1823 - 896 páginas
...ornament. When his ambition prompts him to begin, with Cowley, to ask himself this question, What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? — on looking about him, he will find many avenues to the temple of fame barred against him ; but... | |
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