| Netterville (fict.name.) - 1802 - 324 pages
...to the breakfast-table. CHAP. '119 CHAP. V. " Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, " Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene, " Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain, " Then bound so hard, they fall to rise again." a change had a few, a very few weeks, made in the prospects... | |
| Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 352 pages
...ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field ? 655 Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, . as Fortune shifts the scene. Some, rais'd aloft, come...amain ;' Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. If Diomede refuse his aid to lend, 660 The great Messapus yet remains our friend : Tolumnius, who foretells... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 312 pages
...ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field ? 655 Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the scene. Some rais'd aloft, come...amain : Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. If Diomede refuse his aid to lend, • 660 The great Messapus yet remains our friend : Tolumnius, who... | |
| Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...name on the window, wrote these lines under it : " Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the 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... | |
| L. M. Stretch - 1808 - 316 pages
...much elated by good fortune. VAL. MAX. lib. vi. 9. Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene : Some rais'd aloft, come...amain, Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. What then remains, but, after past annoy, To take the good vicissitude of joy ; To thank the gracious... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...field ? Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene. Some, raised 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 remains our friend : Tolumnius, who foretells... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...And, ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field f Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the scene : .Some rais'd aloft,...amain; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. If Diomede refuse his aid to lend, The great Messapus yet remains our friend : Tolumnius, who foretels... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...resign the field ? Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the scene : j 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 remains our friend : Tolumnius, who foretels... | |
| Greek literature - 1813 - 420 pages
...And, ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field? Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the scene : Some, rais'd aloft,...amain ; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again. If Diomedc refuse his aid to lend, The great Messapus yet remains our friend : Tolumnins, who foretels... | |
| William Coxe - Prime ministers - 1816 - 430 pages
...Walpole's name, which he had left on the window : Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the 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,... | |
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