Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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... pastoral . Thinking of his early years , and of the education that nature gives the poet , we can imagine him , like Callicles in Mr. Arnold's poem , singing at the banquet of a merchant or a general- ' With his head full of wine , and ...
... pastoral . Thinking of his early years , and of the education that nature gives the poet , we can imagine him , like Callicles in Mr. Arnold's poem , singing at the banquet of a merchant or a general- ' With his head full of wine , and ...
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... pastoral melancholy . ' There is little of melancholy in Theocritus . When Battus is chilled by the thought of the death of Ama- ryllis , it is but as one is chilled when a thin cloud passes over the sun , on a bright day of early ...
... pastoral melancholy . ' There is little of melancholy in Theocritus . When Battus is chilled by the thought of the death of Ama- ryllis , it is but as one is chilled when a thin cloud passes over the sun , on a bright day of early ...
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... pastoral lament , when he raised the rural dirge for Daphnis into the realm of art , he composed a masterpiece , and a model for all later poets , as for the authors of Lycidas , Thyrsis , and Adonais . Theocritus did more than borrow a ...
... pastoral lament , when he raised the rural dirge for Daphnis into the realm of art , he composed a masterpiece , and a model for all later poets , as for the authors of Lycidas , Thyrsis , and Adonais . Theocritus did more than borrow a ...
Página xxvi
... pastoral poets of northern lands have imitated him , and so have gone far astray from northern nature . The pupil of nature had still to be taught the ' rules ' of the critics , to watch the temper and fashion of his time , and to try ...
... pastoral poets of northern lands have imitated him , and so have gone far astray from northern nature . The pupil of nature had still to be taught the ' rules ' of the critics , to watch the temper and fashion of his time , and to try ...
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... pastoral landscape . Shepherds fluted while Perseus slew Medusa . The old order of things in Greece had been precisely the opposite of this Alexandrian manner . Homer and the later Homeric legends , with the tragedians , inspired the ...
... pastoral landscape . Shepherds fluted while Perseus slew Medusa . The old order of things in Greece had been precisely the opposite of this Alexandrian manner . Homer and the later Homeric legends , with the tragedians , inspired the ...
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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...