 Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns, that set, may rise again ; . But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual...  Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an Historical ... - Pągina 388per George Ellis - 1803 - 458 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Hollander - 1988 - 262 pągines
...Catullus's "nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, / nox est perpetua una dormienda" (Ben Jonson gives it as "Suns that set may rise again; / But if once we lose this light, / Tis with us perpetual night") becomes for Thomas Campion a varying refrain in his far from mere translation, "My Sweetest Lesbia."... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1998 - 530 pągines
...will not be ours forever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. 170 Suns that set may rise again: But if once we lose...should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys. 175 Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor household-spies? Or his easier ears beguile, Thus removed... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 669 pągines
...Volpone Almost All the wise world is little else in nature But parasites or sub-parasites. 5270 Volpone * "fis with us perpetual night. 5271 Volpone Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber; Which we will... | |
 | John Pitcher - 1999 - 400 pągines
...set. and rise againe. But whenas our short light Comes once to set, it makes eternall night. (66-68) Suns that set. may rise again: But if once we lose this light. Tis, with us, perpetual night. (Volpone, 111, vii, 171-73) The differing sources are revealed only in Jonson's plural for Catullus's... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 358 pągines
...at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again; 170 But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? 165-82.] Italic in Q, F. 165. my] Q, F; sweet, Add. 10309, f. 117; Rawlinson 31, f. 7. 166. can] Q,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 603 pągines
...let us prove, 165 While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again : 170 But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys ?... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 209 pągines
...us prove, 165 While we can, the sports of love. Time will not be ours for ever; He, at length, our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again; 170 151. practice] constant or habitual endeavour; with overtones of 'scheming'. 152. figures] shapes,... | |
 | Richard L. Harp, Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - 218 pągines
...Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain....we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. (3.7.165- 72) Through these first eight lines Jonson's "Song" is a close yet graceful paraphrase of... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2000 - 357 pągines
...her of the privacy that they enjoy: Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies? Or his easier ears beguile, Thus removed by our wile? 'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal. But the sweet thefts to reveal: To be... | |
 | Paul A. Mellow - 2002 - 300 pągines
...itself becomes the very epitome of darkness and there is no Light at all. Ben Johnson put it well: "Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, Tis with us perpetual night!" —Song to Celia The Light of the World, however, is about to come back to the foreground, as the Lamb... | |
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