Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes 1749 (his own imitation of Juvenal's tenth satire, from which I quoted in the previous post):
. . . New Sorrow rises as the Day returns, . . .
Year chases Year, Decay pursues Decay, . . .
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From Georg Friedrich Händel's Jephtha , verses (libretto) by Rev. Thomas Morell: In gentle murmurs will I mourn, as ...
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William Rounseville Alger, The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867), 146-148: T...
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All the following excerpts from Winckelmann's Storia delle Arti el Disegno Presso gli Antichi are given in translation (and in Italian)...
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