“To write a verse or two is all the praise
That I can raise.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Praise, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Despise me not
And not be queasy
To praise somewhat
Verse is not easy”
'For my Contemporaries' from - The Helmsman 1942
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“Whereas if the heart be moved,
Although the verse be somewhat scant,
God doth supply the want.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Temple (1633), A True Hymn
“Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised)
Linking our England to his Italy.”
Robert Browning The Ring and the Book
Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 873.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Pierre de Ronsard book Sonnets pour Hélène
Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle,<br>Assise auprès du feu, dévidant et filant,<br>Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous émerveillant:<br>"Ronsard me célébrait du temps que j'étais belle." <br class="br"> vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Quand_vous_serez_bien_vieille%2C_au_soir%2C_%C3%A0_la_chandelle"Quand, Sonnets pour Hélène (1578), ll. 1-4.
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?
Hays translation
VIII, 53
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.”
Laudas balnea versibus trecentis
Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle.
Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.
Martial book Epigrammata
Laudas balnea versibus trecentis
Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle.
Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.
IX, 19.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“The Bards also, who by the praises of their verse transmit to distant ages the fame of heroes slain in battle, poured forth at ease their lays in abundance.”
Vos quoque qui fortes animas, belloque peremptas
Laudibus in longum vates dimittitis aevum,
Plurima securi fudistis carmina, Bardi.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book I, line 447 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“The envious praises me twice.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) L'invidioso mi loda due volte.
Source: prevale.net
“The envious praises me twice.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) L'invidioso mi loda due volte.