This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." 88. let us alone, leave us here in peace. The present tense, 'are, ' states the usual lot and gives vividness and intensity. 91. all things... dreadful past. We can take nothing with us from this world; we must leave behind us all our hopes, deeds, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." 88. let us alone, leave us here in peace. The present tense, 'are, ' states the usual lot and gives vividness and intensity. 91. all things... dreadful past. We can take nothing with us from this world; we must leave behind us all our hopes, deeds, and possessions, which will soon sink down into the gloomy abyss of the past, and be lost to us for ever. Cf. Lucretius, De Rerum Nat., iii. 914, "Short is this enjoyment for poor weak men, presently it will be over, and never after may it be called back." 93. what pleasure... evil? We can derive no pleasure from the toilsome struggle against wrong. 95. climbing up the climbing ware, mounting to the crest of the waves that rise up as the ship rises. Cf. St. Agnes' Eoe: --"Still creeping with the creeping hours." 99. were, would be; the subjunctive mood denotes that the circumstances exist as yet only in the speaker's imagination. 102. amber... myrrh-bush, those golden sunset hues which seem loth to fade from the myrrh-bush which they light up. Cf. above, 1. 19, "The charmed sunset lingered low adown." 106. crisping ripples, wavelets that curl over at the edges. Cf. Cluribel, "The bubbling runnel crispeth." Milton has 'crisped brooks.' Lat. crispus, curled. 107. tender... spray, lines of soft white foam that gently curve. 109. mild-minded melancholy, tranquil pensiveness. 111. old faces, the familiar well-remembered faces of the friends of our childhood, now dead and gone. 113. urn of brass. Cinerary urns are described by Homer as being made of gold; see //. 23, 92 and Od. 24, 74. Roman urns were generally made of marble, alabaster, or baked clay. 117. are cold are not ready to welcome us with warm comfort....
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