Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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... lady Selene ' the song which was to charm her lover home . The magical image melted in the burning , the herbs smouldered , the tale of love was told , and slowly the singer ' drew the quiet night into her blood . ' Her lay ended with a ...
... lady Selene ' the song which was to charm her lover home . The magical image melted in the burning , the herbs smouldered , the tale of love was told , and slowly the singer ' drew the quiet night into her blood . ' Her lay ended with a ...
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... lady of heavenly love , who worshipped with the noble wife of Nicias under the green roof of Milesian Aphro- dite , and who prophesied of the return of peace and of song to Sicily and Syracuse . THEOCRITUS E B THEOCRITUS IDYL I The ...
... lady of heavenly love , who worshipped with the noble wife of Nicias under the green roof of Milesian Aphro- dite , and who prophesied of the return of peace and of song to Sicily and Syracuse . THEOCRITUS E B THEOCRITUS IDYL I The ...
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... Lady Moon , I speak this spell - Be it with a friend that he lingers , be it with a leman he lies , may he as clean forget them as Theseus , of old , in Dia -- so legends tell - did utterly forget the fair - tressed Ariadne . My magic ...
... Lady Moon , I speak this spell - Be it with a friend that he lingers , be it with a leman he lies , may he as clean forget them as Theseus , of old , in Dia -- so legends tell - did utterly forget the fair - tressed Ariadne . My magic ...
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... Lady Moon ! And the Thracian servant of Theucharidas , -my nurse that is but lately dead , and who then dwelt at our doors , -besought me and implored me to come and see the show . And I went with her , wretched woman that I am , clad ...
... Lady Moon ! And the Thracian servant of Theucharidas , -my nurse that is but lately dead , and who then dwelt at our doors , -besought me and implored me to come and see the show . And I went with her , wretched woman that I am , clad ...
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... Lady Moon ! Thus I told the true story to my maiden , and said , ' Go , Thestylis , and find me some remedy for this sore disease . Ah me , the Myndian possesses me , body and soul ! Nay , depart , and watch by the wrestling - ground of ...
... Lady Moon ! Thus I told the true story to my maiden , and said , ' Go , Thestylis , and find me some remedy for this sore disease . Ah me , the Myndian possesses me , body and soul ! Nay , depart , and watch by the wrestling - ground of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adonis Aeschines Alcmena Alexandria Amphitryon Amycus Aphrodite art thou Augeas Battus beasts beautiful begin the dirge begin the pastoral behold beneath Bion bull child Comatas Corydon Cypris Damoetas Daphnis dawn deep Dionysus Dorian dost thou doth dwell Europa eyes F. T. PALGRAVE fair flock flowers Galatea gift goat goatherd gods golden Gorgo Greek hand hath heart heifer Heracles herds herdsman hither honour IDYL Iphicles kine kiss labour Lacon Lady Moon lament lips lover Lycidas magic wheel maiden Menalcas methinks mighty milk Milon minstrels mortals Moschus mother neatherd never Nicias night nymphs pastoral song perchance pipe poem poet Polydeuces Praxinoë Ptolemy Ptolemy Philadelphus Selected and arranged she-goats shepherds Sicily sing sleep spake sweet sweetly tell Theocritus thine things thou art thou dost thou hast thou wilt Thyonichus trees twain wild wretched ye Muses dear ye Sicilian Muses Zeus
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Página 106 - Beneath their heads was a scanty matting, their clothes, their sailor's caps. Here was all their toil, here all their wealth. The threshold had never a door, nor a watch-dog ; 3 all things, all, to them seemed superfluity, for Poverty was their sentinel. They had no neighbour by them, but ever against their narrow cabin gently floated up the sea.
Página xix - That muffle its wet banks; but glade, And stream, and sward, and chestnut-trees, End here; Etna beyond, in the broad glare Of the hot noon, without a shade, Slope behind slope, up to the peak, lies bare; The peak, round which the white clouds play.
Página xix - The track winds down to the clear stream, To cross the sparkling shallows; there The cattle love to gather, on their way To the high...