 | Epitaphs - 1727 - 528 pages
...•.'.•'.: •• -• , It grieves me when I fee that Fate, Poes on the beft of Mankind wait, Poets Poets or Lovers let them be, 'Tis neither Love nor...Poet's Head or Lover's Heart, But when their Life in its Decline, Touches the inevitable Line, All the World mortal to 'em then, And Wine is Acconite to... | |
 | Basil Kennett - Greek literature - 1735 - 296 pages
...•Poets or Lovers let them be ; JTis neither Love nor 3>oe(y, Can arm againft ^Death's fmalleft 2)art The 'Poet's Head or Lover's Heart. But when their Life in it's Decline Touches th' inevitable Line, All the Worlds Mortal to them then. And Wtne is Aconite to Men. Nay in 'Deaths... | |
 | Classical biography - 1750 - 374 pages
...what Fate Does sn the left of Mankind waif, Poets or Levers let them be ; 'Tis neither Love nor Porjie Can arm againft Death's fmalleft Dart The Poet's Head, or Lover's Heart. But when their Life in its Decline, Touches th' inevitable Line ; All the World's mortal to them then. And Wine is Aconite... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - Biography - 1761 - 534 pages
...ftyle and manner of Anacreon, has honoured him with an elegy in his own firain, which cpncludes iji this manner: It grieves me, when I fee what fate Does...neither love nor poefy Can arm againft death's fmalleft dartj, The poet's head or lover's heart -, But when their life, in it's decline, Touches th'inevitable... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1772 - 264 pages
...Mifguide to madnefs, or to fleep. Sleep were well ; thou'ft learnt a way To death itfelf now to betray. It grieves me, when I fee what fate Does on the beft...poet's head, or lover's heart. But, when their life, in its decline, Touches th' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to 'em then, And wine is aconite 'to... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 658 pages
...thou haft learn'da way To death itfelf now to betray. It grieves me when I fee what fate f OJ Dors on the beft of mankind wait. Poets or lovers let them...Death's fmalleft dart The poet's head or lover's heart ; I IO But when their life in its deeline Touehes th' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to 'em... | |
 | Edward Harwood - Authors, Greek - 1778 - 412 pages
...honouring him with an' Elegy, conceived and executed in his own peculiar Mode of Thinking and Writing : It grieves me when I fee what Fate Does on the beft of Mankind wait, Poets or Lovers let them be 5 'Tis neither Love nor Poefie Can arm againft Death's fmalleft Dart The Poet's Head, or Lover's Heart.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 296 pages
...madnefs or to fleep : O 4. Sleep Sleep were well ; them 'aft learnt a way To death itfelf now to betray. It grieves me when I fee what fate Does on the beft...death's fmalleft dart, The poet's head or lover's heart ; Bu: when their life, in its decline, Touches th' inevitable line, All the world 's mortal to them... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...mankind wait. Poets or lovers let them be, "Tis-neithcr love norpocfy Can arm againft Death's fmalleil dart The poet's head or lover's heart ; But when their life in its decline Touches th1 inevitable line, All the world's mortal to 'cm then, As wine is aconite to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...Mifguide to madnefs or to fleep : Sleep were well ; thou "aft learnt a way To death itfclf new to betray. Poets or lovers let them be, 'Tis neither love nor poefy Can arm, againft death's fmalleir. dart, The poet's head or rover's heart ; But when their life, in its decline, Touches th'... | |
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Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand,... 
