Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 336. HARASS'D by age and want, without a friend, Archdeacon Wrangham. ON THALES.26 Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 83. MILETUS of Ionia, the birth of Thales nurst, 26 Thales is generally allowed to have been the father of Greek philosophy, and stands first on the list of the seven wise men. He was a believer in a deity pervading the universe, made some inventions in geometry, and first observed the apparent diameter of the sun. He likewise observed the nature and course of eclipses. The illusory science of Astrology, which has captivated the philosophers of every age and nation, is said to have originated with the Chaldæans; and when Egypt was a Roman province "the poor Jews took to it as a trade." It was much in vogue during the middle ages, and in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was taught in the Italian universities. Its early history in England is very little known; but it is certain Roger Bacon and Bede were addicted to it. Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 357. THOUGH here you laid my corpse when none were nigh, One saw thee, murderer, one all-seeing eye. F. Hodgson. ON TWINS. Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 329. ONE grave these twins entombs: one day their breath They both received, and both one day their death. Dr. Wellesley. Lucian, Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 308. A CHILD of five short years, unknown to woe, Callimachus my name, I rest below. Mourn not my fate. If few the joys of life, Few were its ills, its conflicts; brief its strife. T. Farley. Gregory of Nazianzen, Jac. Bk. viii. Ep. 126. He whom the Graces to the Muses gave, Hugh Boyd. Asclepiades of Samos, Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 284. KEEP off, rude sea, if but eight cubits' length ; The grave of Eumare's should'st thou take, thy gains Are but the bones and ashes it contains. Dr. Wellesley. ON TIMON.27 Hegesippus, Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 320. SHARP thorns and stakes beset this tomb all round: Stranger, approach it not, your feet you'll wound. Timon the misanthrope dwells here. And vent your curses as you pass. Pass on, ON THE HEROES OF THE ILIAD-HECTOR AND ACHILLES. Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 137. O METE not Hector's greatness by his grave; 27 A native of Colyttas, in Attica. In consequence of being deceived in the friendships he had formed, he declared himself the enemy of the human race, and lived secluded from mankind. He formed a subject of ridicule in the comedies of Aristophanes, and his name has been rendered immortal by Shakespeare. Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 142. THE tomb of brave Achilles this, which Greeks beside the sea Rear'd up in ancient days to scare the Trojans yet to be. May pour for him all lovingly an everlasting dirge. ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER. Paulus Sil. Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 604. SWEET maid, thy parents fondly thought With wiles and toils and anxious fear. For us remains a journey drear, For thee a blest and calm repose, Uniting in thy short career The fruit of age, of youth the rose. Bland. Zenodotus or Rhianus, Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 315. TWIST round me, thou rough earth, the prickly thorn; Let the crook'd savage bramble-branch adorn My tomb, that birds of spring may shun the place, Hay. Antip. Th. Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 493. HERE sleeps a daughter by her mother's side; Meleager, Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 182. THE morne which saw me made a bride, Antip. Sid. Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 353 THIS rudely sculptured porter pot Bland. Herrick. 28 This is rather a parallel, or a poem, based on Meleager, than a translation. |