Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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Página xxiii
... And in an epigram the dead girl is spoken of as the kid that the wolf has seized , while the hounds bay all too late . Grief will not bring her back . The world must go its way , and we need not darken THEOCRITUS AND HIS AGE xxiii.
... And in an epigram the dead girl is spoken of as the kid that the wolf has seized , while the hounds bay all too late . Grief will not bring her back . The world must go its way , and we need not darken THEOCRITUS AND HIS AGE xxiii.
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... brings us to the third characteristic of the age , its art was elaborately pictorial . Poetry seems to have sought inspiration from painting , while painting , as we have said , inclined to genre , to luxurious representations of the ...
... brings us to the third characteristic of the age , its art was elaborately pictorial . Poetry seems to have sought inspiration from painting , while painting , as we have said , inclined to genre , to luxurious representations of the ...
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... brings all her cunning to bear against the scrip , and vows she will never leave the lad , till she strand him bare and breakfastless . But the boy is plaiting a pretty locust - cage with stalks of asphodel , and fitting IDYL I 5.
... brings all her cunning to bear against the scrip , and vows she will never leave the lad , till she strand him bare and breakfastless . But the boy is plaiting a pretty locust - cage with stalks of asphodel , and fitting IDYL I 5.
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... of the Hours . Hither , hither , Cissaetha : do thou milk her , Thyrsis . And you young she - goats , wanton not so wildly lest you bring up the he- goat against you . IDYL II Simaetha , madly in love with Delphis , ΙΟ THEOCRITUS.
... of the Hours . Hither , hither , Cissaetha : do thou milk her , Thyrsis . And you young she - goats , wanton not so wildly lest you bring up the he- goat against you . IDYL II Simaetha , madly in love with Delphis , ΙΟ THEOCRITUS.
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... bring them , Thestylis ; and where are the love- charms ? Wreath the bowl with bright - red wool , that I may knit the witch - knots against my grievous lover , who for twelve days , oh cruel , has never come hither , nor knows whether ...
... bring them , Thestylis ; and where are the love- charms ? Wreath the bowl with bright - red wool , that I may knit the witch - knots against my grievous lover , who for twelve days , oh cruel , has never come hither , nor knows whether ...
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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...