 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 trang
...security with their helplessness can not be conceived — not, as the Roman poet says, it is a pleasure that any should be afflicted, but because it is sweet to see from what evils you are yourself exempt Any thing more dejected than the faces of these unhappy victims, as they were driven about by their... | |
 | Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1873 - 268 trang
...with their helplessness cannot be conceived, not — as the Eoman poet says — that it is a pleasure that any should be afflicted, but because it is sweet to see from what evils you are yourself exempt. Anything more dejected than the faces of these unhappy victims, as they were driven about by their... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 trang
...edition of Lucretius (vol. I. p. 51, Cambridge, 1864), translates the entire passage as follows: — It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble...upon the mighty struggles of war arrayed along the plain;, without sharing yourself in the danger. But nothing is more welcome than to hold the lofty... | |
 | 1881 - 294 trang
...feeling expressed at greater length in the well-known lines of Lucretius, where he says: "It may be sweet when on the great sea the winds " trouble its...see " from what evils you are yourself exempt. It may be " sweet also to look upon the mighty struggles of war " arrayed along the plains without sharing... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1881 - 286 trang
...feeling expressed at greater length in the well-known lines of Lucretius, where he says: " It may be sweet when on the great sea the winds " trouble its...see " from what evils you are yourself exempt. It may be " sweet also to look upon the mighty struggles of war "arrayed along the plains without sharing... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1882 - 298 trang
...feeling expressed at greater length in the well-known lines of Lucretius, where he says : "It may be sweet when on the great sea the winds "trouble its waters to behold from laud another's deep " distress ; not that it is a pleasure and delight that "any should be afflicted,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 trang
...edition of Lucretius (TO!. I. p. 51, Cambridge, 1864), translates the entire passage as follows: — It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble its witen, to behold from land another's deep distress ; not that it is a pleasure and delight that any... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 trang
...III. i. 100. P. IBS, 1. 25. Lucretian pleasure. Alluding to the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius, ii. 1^: "It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble...from land another's deep distress; not that it is pleasure and delight that any should be afflicted, but because it is sweet to see from what evils you... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 542 trang
...magno turbantibus aequora ventis, E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem, which Munro translates : " It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble...waters, to behold from land another's deep distress." Page 198, line 29. And what is it all for ? At these words, in the London Magazine, came the passage... | |
 | Charles Montague Bakewell - 1907 - 414 trang
...things and also to term first bodies, because from them as first elements all things are. *** It 2 is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble...without sharing yourself in the danger. But nothing is t more welcome than to hold the lofty and serene positions well fortified by the learning of the wise,... | |
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It may be sweet when on the great sea the winds " trouble its waters to behold from land another's deep "distress; not that it is a pleasure and delight that " any should be afflicted, but because it is sweet to see " from what evils you are yourself... 
