Breathing the thin breath through our nostrils, we Live, and a little space the sunlight see — Even all that live — each being an instrument To which the generous air its life has lent. If with the hand one quench our draught of breath, He sends the... Selections from the Greek Anthologyedited by - 1889 - 277 pagesNo preview available - About this book
| American literature - 1879 - 592 pages
...brought — naked to earth I descend. Why should I labor for naught, seeing how naked the end ? And— Breathing the thin breath through our nostrils, we...fed, Seeing, but for a little air, we are as dead. The next beautiful one — quite Tennysonian — is attributed to vEsopus in the " Palatine Anthology,"... | |
| Thomas Bird Mosher - Literature - 1903 - 470 pages
...brought — naked to earth I descend. Why should I labour for nought, seeing how naked the end? And: — Breathing the thin breath through our nostrils, we...fed, Seeing, but for a little air, we are as dead. The next beautiful one — quite Tennysonian — is attributed to ^sopus in the Palatine Anthology,... | |
| John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 614 pages
...stabbing — Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soule can kill. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. THE GENEROUS AIR. BREATHING the thin breath through our nostrils, we...fed, Seeing, but for a little air, we are as dead. From the Greek of PALLADAS. Translation of WILLIAM M. HARDINGE. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing... | |
| English poetry - 1904 - 544 pages
...stab at thee who will, No stab the soule can kill. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. THE GENEROUS AIIl. BRKATHING the thin breath through our nostrils, we Live, and...fed, Seeing, but for a little air, we are as dead. From the Greek of PALLADAS. Translation of WILLIAM M. HARDINGE. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing... | |
| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 pages
...they are hypocrites all their lives. GEOBGE SANTAYANA — Winds Of Doctrine * 32. WHENCE OUR PRIDE? BREATHING the thin breath through our nostrils, we...are fed, Seeing but for a little air we are as dead. PALLADAS 33. WANTED AN ARISTOCRACY The United States is in sore need to-day of an aristocracy of intellect... | |
| English periodicals - 1878 - 1178 pages
...for nought, seeing how naked the end ? And:Breathing the thin breath through our nostrils, we Lave, and a little space the sunlight see — Even all that...fed, Seeing, but for a little air, we are as dead. The next beautiful one — quite Tennysonian — is attributed to -Esopus in the Palatine Anthology,... | |
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