A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian

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American Book Company, 1907 - 543페이지
 

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419 페이지 - ... HERACLITUS THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake ; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
190 페이지 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
393 페이지 - THOU wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled ; Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead.
391 페이지 - Athens to speak of such matters, that, if they had been set on the rack, they would never have confessed them, besides his poetical describing the circumstances of their meetings, as the well ordering of a banquet, the delicacy of a walk, with interlacing mere tales, as Gyges' Ring, and others, which who knoweth not to be flowers of poetry did never walk into Apollo's garden.
99 페이지 - ... say, I have rendered into English the very words of Sappho. I have tried also to work into words of my own some expression of their effect: to bear witness how, more than any other's, her verses strike and sting the memory in lonely places, or at sea, among all loftier sights and sounds — how they seem akin to fire and air, being themselves "all air and fire"; other element there is none in them.
437 페이지 - Ah me, when the mallows wither in the garden, and the green parsley, and the curled tendrils of the anise, on a latetr day they live again, and spring in another year, but we men, we, the great and mighty, or wise, when once we have died, in ^/'hollow earth we sleep, gone down into silence ; a right long, and endless, and unawakening sleep.
262 페이지 - ... prayer The less to them : and purer can there be Any, or more fervent than the daughter's prayer For her dear father's safety and success ? ' A groan that shook him shook not his resolve.
313 페이지 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
430 페이지 - I, on the day when first thou earnest, with my mother, and didst wish to pluck the hyacinths from the hill, and I was thy guide on the way. But to leave loving thee, when once I had seen thee, neither afterward, nor now at all, have I the strength, even from that hour. But to thee all this is as nothing, by Zeus, nay, nothing at all! I know, thou gracious maiden, why it is that thou dost shun me.
198 페이지 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?

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