 | Virgil - 1803 - 352 pages
...should we so tamely yield, And, ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field ? 655 Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, . as Fortune shifts the...Some, rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain ;' Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. If Diomede refuse his aid to lend, 660 The great Messapus... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 540 pages
...Robert Walpole had been prisoner, and had left his name on the window, wrote these lines under it : " Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, Appear by turns,...scene ; Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain, And fall so hard, they bound and rise again." [Lord Lansdown who descended from a family, which traced... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 446 pages
...written his name upon a pane of glass in the window, to which Lansdowne added the following lines : " Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, " Appear by turns,...shifts the scene : " Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling d&wn amain, " And fall so hard, they bound and rise again." The poems of this noble peer were .printed... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 312 pages
...should we so tamely yield, And, ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field ? 655 Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the...Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain : Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. If Diomede refuse his aid to lend, • 660 The great Messapus... | |
 | L. M. Stretch - 1808 - 316 pages
...man not to be too much depressed by bad, nor too much elated by good fortune. VAL. MAX. lib. vi. 9. Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, Appear by turns,...Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain, Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. What then remains, but, after past annoy, To take the good... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...should we so tamely yield ; And, ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field f Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the....Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. If Diomede refuse his aid to lend, The great Messapus yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...them all — The queen. WRITTEN ON A WINDOW IN THE TOWEB, WHEHE Sit BOBKRT WALPOLE HAD BEEN CONFINED. GOOD unexpected, evil unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the scene : Some, rais'd al(.ft, come tumbling down amain, And fall so hard0 they bound and rise again. PELEUS .-Í.V/J THETIS.... | |
 | 1813 - 420 pages
...unforc'd, should we so tamely yield, And, ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field? Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the...Some, rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain ; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. If Diomedc refuse his aid to lend, The great Messapus yet... | |
 | William Coxe - 1816 - 430 pages
...consigned to the same apartment, wrote these lines under Walpole's name, which he had left on the window : Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, Appear by turns,...scene ; Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain, And fall so hard, they bound and rise again/]: * See Smoliet, vol. 2. p, 289; Macpherson's History,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Window of the Tower, over the Name of R. Walpole, confined in the same Room, Ann. Dom. 1712. LANSDOWNE. GOOD unexpected, evil unforeseen, Appear by turns,...shifts the scene ; Some rais'd aloft come tumbling down again, And fall so hard, they bound and rise again. The Manchester Millers named Bone and Skin. BYROM.... | |
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Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene: Some, rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. 
