 Poor Anacreon ! thou grow'ft old: Look how thy hairs are falling all; Poor Anacreon, how they fall ! Whether I grow old or no, By th' effefts I do. not know ; This I know, without being told, ..." . 'Tis time to live, if I grow old ; . ,. Tis time fliort...  The Works of the English Poets: Cowley - Página 139de Samuel Johnson - 1779Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Anacreon - 1893 - 298 páginas
...75-6.) Cowley's version runs thus : — AGE. Oft am I by the women told, " Poor Anacreon, thou grow'st old, Look how thy hairs are falling all ; Poor Anacreon, how they fall ! " Whether I grow old or no, By the effects I do not know : This I know, without being told, 'Tis time to live if I grow old ; 'Tis... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 páginas
...AGE. ALICE CABY. FROM THE GREEK OF ANACREON. OFT am I by the women told, " Poor Anacreon, thou growest old; Look ! how thy hairs are falling all ! Poor Anacreon, how they fall !" Whether I grow old or no BV the effects I do not know. This I know without being told : 'Tis time to live if I grow old ; 'Tis... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 588 páginas
...AGE. ALICE CABY. FROM THE GREEK OF ANACREON. OFT am I by the women told, " Poor Anacreon, thou growest old; Look ! how thy hairs are falling all ! Poor Anacreon, how they fall !" Whether I grow old or no By the effects I do not know. This I know without being told: 'Tis time to live if I grow old ; 'Tis time... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 456 páginas
...were numerous. AGE. (Cowley's Translation.) OFT am I by the women told, Poor Anacreon, thou grow'st old! Look how thy hairs are falling all; Poor Anacreon, how they fall! Whether I grow old or no, By th' effects I do not know; This I know, without being told, 'T is time to live, if I grow old; 'T is time... | |
 | Frederick Dunglison Power - 1903 - 554 páginas
...his own the lines of Anacreon: "Oft am I by woman told, Poor Anacreon! Thou grow'st old: See, thine hairs are falling all: Poor Anacreon! How they fall! Whether I grow old or no, By these signs I do not know; But this I need not to be told Tis time to live if I grow old!" All men... | |
 | Joseph Chotzner - 1905 - 206 páginas
...the foregoing figure. They run as follows:— Oft I am by women told, Poor Anacreon ! thou grow'st old ; Look how thy hairs are falling all: Poor Anacreon ! how they fall! The Biblical story found in the fourth Book of Moses (xiv. 2-11) seems to have been known and partly... | |
 | 1900 - 622 páginas
...divine," could not have inspired this bit of wisdom: " Oft am I by women told, Poor Anacreon, thou grow'st old ! Look how thy hairs are falling all ; Poor Anacreon, how they fall! Whether I grow old or no, By th' effects I do not know ; This I know without being told, 'Tis time to live if I grow old; 'Tis time... | |
 | 1906 - 730 páginas
...that an old man should only then be beginning to live ? " Whether I grow old or no, By the effects I do not know ; This I know, without being told, 'Tis time to live if I grow old. MC (who probably chose these quotations in the hope of winning a prize from the Saturday Westminster),... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1906 - 336 páginas
...favorite passage from Anacreon: — " Oft am I by woman told, Poor Anacreon! thou grow'st old: See, thine hairs are falling all: Poor Anacreon, how they fall! Whether I grow old or no, By these signs I do not know; But this I need not to be told, ' 'Tis time to live, if I grow old.'" In... | |
 | William Alfred Dutt - 1907 - 484 páginas
...an application of his own— " Oft am I by women told, Poor Anacreon ! thou grow'st old ; See, thine hairs are falling all, Poor Anacreon ! how they fall! Whether I grow old or no, By these signs I do not know ; But this I need not to be told 'Tis time to live if I grow old." "My father,"... | |
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