Studies of the Greek Poets, Volumen2A. and C. Black, 1902 |
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Página 261 - And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music ; " and to Weber the ethereal "mermaid's
Página 293 - 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 gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant
Página 356 - I never think of poor Leander's fate, And how he swam, and how his bride sat late, And watched the dreadful dawning of the light, But as I would of two that died last night, So might they now have lived, and so have died ; The story's heart, to me, still beats against its side.
Página 50 - whom Socrates called his friend, whom Aristotle lauded, whom Menander admired, and for whom Sophocles and the city of Athens put on mourning on hearing of his death, must certainly have been something. If a modern man like Schlegel must pick out faults in so great an ancient, he ought only to do it upon his knees
Página 325 - gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by
Página 96 - Teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received, In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life,
Página 302 - Thus will thy lasting leaves, with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung ; Whose soul, exalted like a God of wit, Among the Muses and the Graces writ.
Página 294 - my tomb his footsteps turns, Stranger or Greek, bid hail ; and say a maid Rests in her bloom below ; her sire the name Of Baucis gave ; her birth and lineage high ; And say her bosom friend Erinna came And on this tomb engraved her elegy.
Página 397 - have contributed—would apparently have come into existence if those races had been left to themselves. To one small people, covering in its original seat no more than a hand's-breadth of territory, it was given to create the principle- of Progress, of movement onwards and not backwards or downwards, of destruction tending to construction.
Página 261 - Will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy bloom ; Nor heed nor see what