Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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... head full of wine , and his hair crown'd , Touching his harp as the whim came on him , And praised and spoil'd by master and by guests , Almost as much as the new dancing girl . ' We can recover the world that met his eyes and inspired ...
... head full of wine , and his hair crown'd , Touching his harp as the whim came on him , And praised and spoil'd by master and by guests , Almost as much as the new dancing girl . ' We can recover the world that met his eyes and inspired ...
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... head of a medical sect , and to Aratus . Theocritus has sung of Aratus's love- affairs , and St. Paul has quoted him as a witness to man's instinctive consent in the doctrine of the universal fatherhood of God . These strangely various ...
... head of a medical sect , and to Aratus . Theocritus has sung of Aratus's love- affairs , and St. Paul has quoted him as a witness to man's instinctive consent in the doctrine of the universal fatherhood of God . These strangely various ...
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... heads waved many a poplar , many an elm- tree , while close at hand the sacred water from the nymph's own cave welled forth with mur- murs musical ' ( Idyl VII ) . The old Dorian settlers in Syracuse pleased themselves with the ...
... heads waved many a poplar , many an elm- tree , while close at hand the sacred water from the nymph's own cave welled forth with mur- murs musical ' ( Idyl VII ) . The old Dorian settlers in Syracuse pleased themselves with the ...
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... head of the god . Then hurried by a crowd of priests and priestesses , Maenads , Bacchantes , Bassa- rids , women crowned with the vine , or with garlands of snakes , and girls bearing the mystic vannus Iacchi . And still the procession ...
... head of the god . Then hurried by a crowd of priests and priestesses , Maenads , Bacchantes , Bassa- rids , women crowned with the vine , or with garlands of snakes , and girls bearing the mystic vannus Iacchi . And still the procession ...
Página xxxvi
... head librarian , was also the most eminent man of letters . Unable , himself , to compose a poem of epic length and copiousness , he discouraged all long poems . He shone in epigrams , pedantic hymns , and didactic verses . He toyed ...
... head librarian , was also the most eminent man of letters . Unable , himself , to compose a poem of epic length and copiousness , he discouraged all long poems . He shone in epigrams , pedantic hymns , and didactic verses . He toyed ...
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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...