28 ordspråk av Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller föddes den March 3rd 1606 och dog den 21 October 1687 - English writer
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 All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. |
| And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. |
| Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. |
| Give us enough but with a sparing hand. |
| Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. |
| How small a part of time they share,
That are so wondrous sweet and fair! |
| Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. |
| In other things the knowing artist may, Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use), If you approve it not, has no excuse. |
| Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. |
| Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. |
| Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot |
| Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot |
| Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. |
| Poets that lasting marble seek/ Must carve in Latin or in Greek. |
| So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. |
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