 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1915 - 150 halaman
...— bound By lines — not many, neat and round, All ending in a sting. E. WALSH. THE qualities rare in a bee that we meet In an epigram never should fail...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail. UNKNOWN (after de Yriarte). AN epigram is but a feeble thing With straw in tail,... | |
 | 1916 - 806 halaman
...A proverb is " the wisdom of many and the wit of one," and of an epigram it has been gaid that — "The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram...and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail." A wife has been defined as " someone for a man to find fault with when things go wrong." It's a good... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1916 - 240 halaman
...humor to the poem. One recalls the old lines concerning the nature of an epigram: The qualities rare in a bee that we meet In an epigram never should fail....always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in the tail. If ever there was an epigram with a real sting in its tail, it is this one to Charidemus,... | |
 | 1916 - 826 halaman
...said that — "The qualities all in a bee that we meet, lu an epigram never should fail : The b'fdy should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail." A wife has been defined as " someone for a man to find fault with when things go wrong." creature that... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 502 halaman
...nowadays. The qualities of an epigram are best suggested in the following lines : The qualities rare in a bee that we meet In an epigram never should fail...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail. The author of these lines is unknown. The lines upon Lady Pembroke, said by some... | |
 | 1917 - 438 halaman
...intended to lead up." De Yriarte has embodied another definition in an epigram : The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail. Coleridge who lost a legacy for writing an epigram on his grandmother's beard, has... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1918 - 944 halaman
...produced a very clever one: The qualities rare In a bee that we meet. In an epigram never should fall — The body should always be little and sweet. And a sting should be left in Its tall. Quite as often, however, the term means any concisely or cleverly expressed thought,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 halaman
...Epigram on Voltaire, who had criticised the characters of the same name in MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 1 le. Act IV. 8c4. L. 405. 18 Attributed to YRIAKTE by BRANDER MATTHEWS — American Epigrams. Harper's Monthly, Nov., 1903. (See... | |
 | Karl Pomeroy Harrington - 1923 - 270 halaman
...apothegmatic. In any case it must be short, and have some point, real or apparent. " The qualities rare in a bee that we meet In an epigram never should fail;...body should always be little and sweet, And a sting shoidd be left in the tail." In the days of Catullus the connotations of the term " epigram " were... | |
 | 1924 - 496 halaman
...sufficiently to make the best epigrams, if the test of the old quatrain be accepted. The qualities rare in a bee that we meet In an epigram never should fail:...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in the tail. Occasionally, however, he hit off an almost perfect example, as when he insisted... | |
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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. 
