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" On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. "
Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Page 82
by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 531 pages
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pages
...exquisitely beautiful tetrastich : ' On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'at, whilst all around thee smil'd : So live, that, sinking in...Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep.' P. 266. Every one must be delighted with the animated and interesting picture which his lordship gives...
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The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of ...

1806 - 678 pages
...parent's knees, a naked neV born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thce smll'd ; So lire, that sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may^st smile, when all around thce weep." TO CORRESPONDENTS. WE have to apologize to H. for postponing lu. s piece on " Secret* retrod!...
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Works, Volume 2

Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...which is a literal tranflation from the Perfian : On parent knees, a naked, new-born child,, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd: So live,...all around thee weep. The hymns, which are original compofitions, are defcriptive of the Hindu deities, to whom they were addrefled, and a fhort introductory...
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The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...which is a literal tranflation from the Perfian : On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd: So live,...all around thee weep. The hymns, which are original compofitions, are defcriptive of the Hindu deities, to whom they were addrefled, and a fhort introductory...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...which is a. iilernl translation from the Persian :— On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd; So live, that sinking in f hy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep. The uniformity which marked...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. William Richards, LL.D.: Who ...

John Evans - 1819 - 444 pages
...William Jones has conveyed in the following lines— On parent knees behold a new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smil'd ; So LIVE,...sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep! Mark the perfect man and behold the upright! for the end of that man —...
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Essays on the Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression

Sir Charles Bell - 1824 - 266 pages
..." On parent's knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled — So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep." From the Persian. "Anger," says Lord Bacon, " is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in...
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Persuasives to Early Piety: Interspersed with Suitable Prayers

John Gregory Pike - 1828 - 300 pages
...better. " On parent knees, a helpless, new born child, Weeping thou iat'st, while all around thee smilM ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep." Sect. 4. You have seen with what sublime triumph the apostle Paul bade farewell to all sublunary things;...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1829 - 734 pages
...while they weep, thou may'st tranquilly smile. • " On nurse's arms a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd ; So live, that sinking in thy long, last sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." It might be easily translated...
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Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ...

Richard Whately - 1834 - 372 pages
...beautiful lines, from the Arabic, by Sir W. Jones : On Parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smil'd ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou then may'st smile, while all around thee weep. All of these are instances also of perfect Antithesis,...
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