Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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Página xxxiii
... maidens , attired as Victories , waving golden wings and swinging vessels of burning incense . The altar of the God of the Vine was borne behind them , crowned and covered with leaves of gold , and next boys in purple robes scattered ...
... maidens , attired as Victories , waving golden wings and swinging vessels of burning incense . The altar of the God of the Vine was borne behind them , crowned and covered with leaves of gold , and next boys in purple robes scattered ...
Página xxxix
... maiden onward . ' Now every single ' motive ' of this description , -Europa with one hand holding the bull's horn , with the other lifting her dress , the wind puffing out her shawl like a sail , is repeated in the Pompeian wall ...
... maiden onward . ' Now every single ' motive ' of this description , -Europa with one hand holding the bull's horn , with the other lifting her dress , the wind puffing out her shawl like a sail , is repeated in the Pompeian wall ...
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... maiden , but to this temptation he never yielded , and so died a constant lover . The song tells how the cattle and the wild things of the wood bewailed him , how Hermes and Priapus gave him counsel in vain , and how with his last ...
... maiden , but to this temptation he never yielded , and so died a constant lover . The song tells how the cattle and the wild things of the wood bewailed him , how Hermes and Priapus gave him counsel in vain , and how with his last ...
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... maiden , as fair a thing as the gods could fashion , arrayed in a sweeping robe , and a snood on her head . Beside her two youths with fair love - locks are contending from either side , with alternate speech , but her heart thereby is ...
... maiden , as fair a thing as the gods could fashion , arrayed in a sweeping robe , and a snood on her head . Beside her two youths with fair love - locks are contending from either side , with alternate speech , but her heart thereby is ...
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... maiden for me . Gladly with this cup would I gain thee to my desire , if thou , my friend , wilt sing me that delightful song . Nay , I grudge it thee not at all . Begin , my friend , for be sure thou canst in no wise carry thy song ...
... maiden for me . Gladly with this cup would I gain thee to my desire , if thou , my friend , wilt sing me that delightful song . Nay , I grudge it thee not at all . Begin , my friend , for be sure thou canst in no wise carry thy song ...
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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
Pasajes populares
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...