 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 halaman
...loved. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S ESSAY. THE SATIRICAL EPIGRAM. THE qualities which in a bee we meet, In this Epigram never should fail ; The body should always...be little and sweet, And a "sting should be felt in the tail. SATIRICAL. LITERARY. ON A SHORT EPIGRAM WITH A LONG INTRODUCTION. THE head's so large —... | |
 | Epigrams - 1868 - 144 halaman
...fieypvfiye' Av5 I awe TO o'ee vpe vajue To/t 2lu9, Punch. A GOOD EPIGRAM. The qualities rare in a bet that we meet, In an epigram never should fail—-...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail. THE COURTIER REBUKED. A haughty courtier, meeting in the streets A scholar, him thus... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1870 - 536 halaman
...et corporis exigui, — which has been loosely translated thus : "The qualities three that in a bee we meet, In an epigram never should fail ; The body...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail." A good collection of epigrams should have some system, illustrating the styles of... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 halaman
...those whose vitiated taste is pleased with such epigrams as the quatrain describes : The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail : The bo,ly should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail. The author of the... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 halaman
...those whose vitiated taste is pleased with such epigrams as the quatrain describes : The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail : The Ijoily should always be little and sweet, And n ttiaij should be left in its tail. The author of the... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 halaman
...epigram ? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. A GOOD EPIGBAM. THE qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail — The body should always be little and stveet, And a sting should be left in its tall. RECEIPT FOR AN EPIGRAM. TAKE a portion of wit, And... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 halaman
...archieologist. It is more probable that the writer was Doii Thomas de Yriarte, a Spanish poet, Dora in 1750: The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram...The body should always be little and sweet, And a bting should be felt in its tail. An anonymous distich in tho "Poetical Register" for 1802, 253, describes... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 halaman
...little favour with those whose vitiated taste is pleased with such epigrams as the quatrain describes: The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail: The body should always be liitle and sweet, And a stiny should be felt in its tail. The author of the " Dissertation on Epigrammatic... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 halaman
...sit et corporis exigui, — which has been loosely translated thus: The qualities three that in a bee we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail. A good collection of epigrams should have some system, illustrating the styles of... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 halaman
...it as A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. Another compares it to a bee, and says The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in the tail. A third likens it to a wasp, With taper body, bound By lines not many, neat and round,... | |
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The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail : The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail. 
