 If storms arise, and clouds grow black ; , If the mast split, and threaten wreck ? Then let the greedy merchant fear For his ill-gotten gain ; And pray to gods that will not hear, While the debating winds and billows bear His wealth into the main.  Works: In English Verse - Σελίδα 106των Horace - 1767Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1909 - 562 σελίδες
...and threaten, wrack Then let the greedy merchant fear For his ill-gotten gain, And pray to Gods that will not hear While the debating winds and billows bear His wealth into the main. For me, secure from Fortune's blows, Secure of what I cannot lose, In my small pinnace I can sail Contemning... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 σελίδες
...Then let the greedy merchant fear For his ill-gotten gain, And pray to gods that will not hear, 95 While the debating winds and billows bear His wealth into the main. For me, secure from fortune's blows (Secure of what I cannot lose), In my small pinnace I can sail, 100 Contemning... | |
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