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"To spend the time luxuriously
Becomes not men of worth."
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619), British poet. Ulysses and the Siren (l. 15-16).
OBEV. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"To purge the mischiefs that increase
And all good order mar,
For oft we see a wicked peace
To be well changed for war."
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619), British poet. Ulysses and the Siren (l. 61-64).
OBEV. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"The best thing of our life, our rest,
And give us up to toil."
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619), British poet. Ulysses and the Siren (l. 23-24).
OBEV. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"This honour is a thing conceived
And rests on others' fame;"
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619), British poet. Ulysses and the Siren (l. 19-20).
OBEV. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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