 | Joseph Addison - 1733 - 94 lehte
...fhall I repeat the Word! For-ever! Por. Thus o'er the dying Lamp th'unfteady Flame Hangs quiv'ring on a Point, leaps off by Fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its Hold. -----Thou muft not go> my Soul ftill hovers o'er thep^ And can't get loofe. Luc. If the firm Portius (hake To hear of Parting,... | |
 | Longinus, William Smith - 1752 - 242 lehte
...touch'd it with equal delicacy and grace : Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unfteady flame Hangs quiv'ring to a point ; leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. I have ventured to give thefe inftances of the beauty and ftrength of Images taken from low and common... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 578 lehte
...how (hall I repeat the \vordfar-ever.' Portius. Thus, o'er the dying lamp th' unfteady flame Hapgs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loath to quit its hold. Thou muft not go, my foul ftill hovers o'er thee, And can't get loofe. Cato,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1772 - 398 lehte
...Muft throw thy brother on his fate, farewell, Oh, how fhall IT repeat the word, for ever ! Portius Thus, o'er the dying lamp th' unfteady flame Hangs...on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loath to quit its hold. Thou muft not go, my foul ftill hovers o'er thee, And can't get loofe. Cato,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1777 - 354 lehte
...thy fuccefs Mnft throw thy brother on his fate, farewel, Oh, how fhall I repeat the word ! For ever ! PORTIU S. Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unfteady flame...Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And faJIs again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou muft not go, my foul ftill hovers o'er thee, And can't... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1784 - 412 lehte
...fiudied and affected comparifon ; . . Thus, o'er the dying lamp th' unfteady flame Hangs quiv'ring on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quits its hold. Thou muft not go ; my foul ftill hovers o'er thee, And can't get loofe. ' * / Though... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 lehte
...o'er the dying lamp th' unfteady flame LEC T. Hangs quiv'ring on a point, leaps off by fits, XVIIi And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. Thou muft...foul ftill hovers o'er thee, And can't get loofe. / Every one muft be fenfible, that this is quite remote from the language of Nature on fuch occafions.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1788 - 610 lehte
...juft. We have likewife a toanflati m of it in Addifon's Cato. Portius thus addrefles his xniilrftfs. •Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unfteady flame Hangs...fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold." But what is. there excruciating in this idea ? How does it agitate or affeft the mind ? When Oroonoko's... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1788 - 590 lehte
...Mult throw thy brother on his fate, farewell, i Oh, how fhall I-repeat the word, for-ever .' Portius. Thus, o'er the dying lamp th' unfteady flame Hangs...on a point, leaps off by fits-, And falls again, as loath to quit its hold *. Thou muft not go, my foul ftill hovers o'er thee, And can't get loofe. Cato,... | |
 | John Bell - 1791 - 292 lehte
...shall I repeat the word! forever. For. " Tims o'er the dyin^ lamp th' unsteady flame " Hangs quiv'ring on a point, leaps off by fits, " And falls again, as loth to quit its hold." —Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose. Luc. If the firm Portius shake To... | |
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Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose. 
