 Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love. Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again: But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual...  A progressive Latin anthology. [Ed.] by H.M. Wilkins - Side 233af Henry Musgrave Wilkins - 1864Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Desmond Collins, Ruth Whitehouse, David Whitehouse, Martin Henig - 1973 - 132 sider
...Man only differed from the eternally happy gods in one important and tragic respect: he was mortal: Suns that set, may rise again, But if once we lose this light 'Tis with us perpetual night (Catullus, trans. Ben Jonson) In the eighth century the Olympic Games became a prominent institution.... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1962 - 248 sider
....65 Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. ,70 Suns that set may rise again ; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why... | |
 | R. Wilcher - 1985 - 214 sider
...the heart of Marvell's inspiration: Come my Celia, let us prove, While we may, the sports of love; Time will not be ours, for ever: He, at length, our...we lose this light, 'Tis, with us, perpetual night. Phrases are echoed and the central idea is carried over in 'To His Coy Mistress', but there is a physical... | |
 | Robinson Ellis - 1889 - 598 sider
...fura rol xp6vov ovKfri irov\vv, 2^/rXw, rIfV pwcpav VVKr dvanavo-vfiida. Ben Jonson, The Fox, iii. 5, Suns that set may rise again. But if once we lose this light, ' Tis with us perpetual night. 7. Martial xii. 59. 1-3, Tantum dat tibi Roma basiorum Post annos modo quindecim reuerso Quantum Lesbia... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 sider
...of Catullus, "Vivamus, mea Lesbia": Come my Celia. let us prove, While we may, the sports of love; Time will not be ours, for ever: He, at length, our good will sever. Spend not then his guifts in vaine. Sunnes, that set, may rise agalne: But if once we loose this light, Tis, with us,... | |
 | 460 sider
...Cclia Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we may, the sports of love. Time will not be ours forever; He, at length, our good will sever. Spend not then...we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumor are but toys. Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 sider
...Catullus's "nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, / nox est perpetua una dormienda" (Ben Jonson gives it as "Suns that set may rise again; / But if once we lose this light, / Tis with us perpetual night") becomes for Thomas Campion a varying refrain in his far from mere translation, "My Sweetest Lesbia."... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1998 - 566 sider
...SONG 0 Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. 170 Suns that set may rise again: But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...Volpone Almost All the wise world is little else in nature But parasites or sub-parasites. 5270 Volpone * "fis with us perpetual night. 5271 Volpone Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber; Which we will... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 220 sider
...note, and footing. [He sings.] SONG Come, my Celia, let us prove, 165 While we can, the sports of love. Time will not be ours for ever; He, at length, our...then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again; 170 151. practice] constant or habitual endeavour; with overtones of 'scheming'. 152. figures] shapes,... | |
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