 | 1806 - 606 pages
...produce stage effect. Our next specimen shall be the famed exordium of the second Book, v. i — 3(i. ' How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On the firm cliff, and mark the teaman's toil ! Not that anc'her's danger sorM'ies the soul, But from such toil how sweet to feel secure... | |
 | Mary Acworth Orr - Astronomy, Ancient - 1807 - 746 pages
...jucunda voluptas, Sed quibus ipse nulls careas, quia cerncre suave est. J.ucnt. lib. ii. Thus admirably well translated by Mr. Mason Good. How sweet to stand,...toil, how sweet to feel secure ! It is astonishing to see how many empty houses are in St. Andrews ; and there is, perhaps, some propriety in applying... | |
 | James Hall (of Walthamstow.) - Scotland - 1807 - 358 pages
...jucunda volupias, Sed quibus ipse malis careas, quia cernere suave est. Lucret. lib. ii. Thus admirably well translated by Mr. Mason Good. How sweet to stand,...toil, how sweet to feel secure ! * It is astonishing to see how many empty houses are in St. Andrews; and there is, perhaps, some propriety in applying... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...nobilitate, Nocteis atque dies niti prx'stante labore Ad Minim,! - emergere opes, rerumque potiri. Lib. *. How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On...soul; But from such toil how sweet to feel secure I How sweet, at distance from the strife, to view Contending Im-is, and hear the clash of war ! But... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...nobilitate, Nocteis atque dies niti pr^stante labore Ad summ?.s emergere opes, rerumqne potiri. Lib. t. Kow sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On the...soul; But from such toil how sweet to feel secure ! How sweet, at distance from the strife, to view Contending hosts, and hear the clash of war ! But... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...Nocteis atque dies niti prsestante labore Ad sumiuas emergere opes, reruraque potiri. Lib. «. How sneet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On the firm...soul; But from such toil how sweet to feel secure ! How sweet, at distance from the strife, to view Contending hosts, and hear the clash of war ! But... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - Ireland - 1812 - 810 pages
...voluptas, Sed, quibus ipse mails careas, quia cernere suave est. Lucretius de Rtrum ,\iit. lib. ii. . i How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, •...soul; But from such toil how sweet to feel secure ! , Good's franslation. On the 12th of November I reached Castlemartyr, standing on a domain of 1200... | |
 | Alfred Cecil Buckland - Conduct of life - 1825 - 398 pages
...jucunda voluptas, Sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est." LVCRET. lib. 2. Thus elegantly translated by Mr. Mason Good : " How sweet to stand,...soul, But from such toil, how sweet to feel secure." those which are experienced by one lying on a bed of sloth and laziness. He condemns tis irresolution,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...elegance of the language and imagery have excited universal admiration, and produced a host of imitators. How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On...soul, But from such toil how sweet to feel secure ! How sweet, at distance from the strife, to view Contending hosts, and hear the clash of war ! But... | |
 | 334 pages
...unstudied elegance and sublimity could not but excite all the energy and enthusiasm of the translator. " How sweet to stand when tempests tear the main, On...soul, But from such toil how sweet to feel secure ! How sweet, at distance from the strife, to view Contending hosts, and hear the clash of war ! But... | |
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How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On the firm cliff, and mark the seaman's toil ! Not that another's danger soothes the soul, But from such toil how sweet to feel secure... 
