tis the greatest evil man can know, The keenest sorrow in this world of woe, The heaviest impost laid on human breath, Which all must pay, or yield the forfeit— death. For Death all wretches pray; but when the prayer Is heard, and he steps forth to... Poems Original and Translated - Page 309by John Herman Merivale - 1844Full view - About this book
| John Aikin - 1807 - 692 pages
...Not so the following. IV.— Ore Old Age. Yes — 'tis the greatest evil man can know, The keenest sorrow in this world of woe, The heaviest impost laid...ingratitude ! And none so fondly cling to life, as he Who has outliv'd all life's felicity. ANAXANDRIDES furnishes us with a contrast to the preceding melancholy... | |
| William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...they have first prepar'd our place. DEATH. YES, — 'tis the greatest evil man can know, The keenest sorrow in this world of woe, The heaviest impost laid...life, as he Who hath outlived all life's felicity. ON A FOUNTAIN, NEAH WHICH A MUHDEH HAD BEEN COMMITTED. EHEWHILE my gentle streams were wont to pour... | |
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...they have first prepar'd our place. DEATH. Tis, — 'tis the greatest evil man can know, The keenest sorrow in this world of woe, The heaviest impost laid...they tremble at his aspect rude, And, loathing, turn I Such man's ingratitude ! And none so fondly cling to life, as he Who hath outlived all life's felicity.... | |
| William Peter - 1856 - 590 pages
...they have first prepar'd our place. DEATH. YM,— 'tis the greatest evil man can know, The keenest sorrow in this world of woe, The heaviest impost laid...forfeit— death. For Death all wretches pray ; but whea the prayer Is heard, and he steps forth to ease their care, Gods ! how they tremble at his aspect... | |
| Abraham Mills - Greek literature - 1858 - 498 pages
...tuke new life and laugh at sorrows past. Yei — 'tis the greatest evil man can know, • The keenest sorrow in this world of woe, The heaviest impost laid...death. For death all wretches pray ; but when the grayer Is heard, and he steps forth to ease their care, Gods ! how they tremble at his aspect rude,... | |
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