Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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... Nymphs . ' There they reclined on beds of fragrant rushes , lowly strown , and rejoicing they lay in new stript ... nymph's own cave welled forth with mur- murs musical ' ( Idyl VII ) . The old Dorian settlers in Syracuse pleased ...
... Nymphs . ' There they reclined on beds of fragrant rushes , lowly strown , and rejoicing they lay in new stript ... nymph's own cave welled forth with mur- murs musical ' ( Idyl VII ) . The old Dorian settlers in Syracuse pleased ...
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... nymph , who , like themselves , had crossed the sea to Sicily . The poetry of Theocritus , read or sung in sultry Alexandria , must have seemed like a new welling up of the waters of Arethusa in the sandy soil of Egypt . We cannot ...
... nymph , who , like themselves , had crossed the sea to Sicily . The poetry of Theocritus , read or sung in sultry Alexandria , must have seemed like a new welling up of the waters of Arethusa in the sandy soil of Egypt . We cannot ...
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... nymph Galatea ? A Pompeian picture illustrates the point , by representing a little Love riding up to the shore on the back of a dolphin , with a letter in his hand for Polyphemus . Greek art in Egypt suffered from an Egyptian plague of ...
... nymph Galatea ? A Pompeian picture illustrates the point , by representing a little Love riding up to the shore on the back of a dolphin , with a letter in his hand for Polyphemus . Greek art in Egypt suffered from an Egyptian plague of ...
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... Nymphs . Confident in the strength of his passion , he boasted that Love could never subdue him to a new affection . Love avenged himself by making Daphnis desire a strange maiden , but to this temptation he never yielded , and so died ...
... Nymphs . Confident in the strength of his passion , he boasted that Love could never subdue him to a new affection . Love avenged himself by making Daphnis desire a strange maiden , but to this temptation he never yielded , and so died ...
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... nymphs ' name , wilt thou sit thee down here , among the tamarisks , on this sloping knoll , and pipe while in this place I watch thy flocks ? Goatherd . Nay , shepherd , it may not be ; we may not pipe in the noontide . ' Tis Pan we ...
... nymphs ' name , wilt thou sit thee down here , among the tamarisks , on this sloping knoll , and pipe while in this place I watch thy flocks ? Goatherd . Nay , shepherd , it may not be ; we may not pipe in the noontide . ' Tis Pan we ...
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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...