 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
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...intensity of his youthful ambition may be seen from the first two lines in his Miscellanies : What shall ou chance to fall into his hands. The Spaniard did this whe Cowley, being a royalist, was ejected from Camj bridge, and afterwards studied at Oxford. He went with... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1877 - 348 páginas
...of the couplet does not always contain a like number of syllables with the first; as, . " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the Age to come my own ? I shall like Beast and common Peop e die, Unless you write my Elegy." SECTION II. — Of the poems tomposed... | |
 | 1851 - 1006 páginas
...well-known lines, expresses the longing for fame as distinct from present applause : — 11 What ehall Т do to be for ever known. And make the age to come my OWD ?" In his touching lines on " My Grave," the late ThomasDavis forcibly utters the aspiration of... | |
 | Arthur Campbell Ainger - 1879 - 144 páginas
...the other. I. pi. 2. imago. 3. gen. 4. profectus. 5. tener. 6. parare. What shall I do? 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 ; 5 Whilst others great by being... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 páginas
...they ! whose tomb might be, Mausolus ! envied by thee I THE MOTTO. TKNTANDA VIA KST, ETC. 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...a man than his clothes do, Which are as soon ta'en oS.Middleton,3layoriifQ,iseenborough. What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? Coioley, Motto. Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 páginas
...spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. — Rumbold, 1685. k. What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? — Cawley. I. O ! it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyranny To use it like... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...Abydos, Canto i. St. 6. 2 See Shakespeare, Coriolanus. Page 76. ABRAHAM COWLEY. 1618-1667. What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? The if otto. His time is for ever, everywhere his place. Friendship in Absence. We spent them not... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1883 - 332 páginas
...sought for, he set himself the memorable enigma that commences his Miscellanies : — " What shall I do to be for ever known And make the age to come my own ? " With these same Miscellanies and with the preparation of the volume called The Mistress he seems... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 páginas
...the printer, he took up his abode for a while with his sister at Bristol. CHAPTER IV. ' What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ?' — Cowley. The 'Lyrical Ballads' (1798) — Wordsworth, accompanied by his sister and Coleridge,... | |
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