Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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Página xxiii
... rich in Theocritean memories , so ardent , so delicate , so full of flowers and birds and the music of fountains . Enough has been said , perhaps , to show what the popular poetry of Sicily could lend to the genius of Theo- critus ...
... rich in Theocritean memories , so ardent , so delicate , so full of flowers and birds and the music of fountains . Enough has been said , perhaps , to show what the popular poetry of Sicily could lend to the genius of Theo- critus ...
Página xxxiii
... rich attire , carrying in one hand branches of the palm - tree , in the other a rod of the peach - tree , starred with its constellated flowers . Then the masque of the Seasons swept by , and Philiscus followed , Philiscus the ...
... rich attire , carrying in one hand branches of the palm - tree , in the other a rod of the peach - tree , starred with its constellated flowers . Then the masque of the Seasons swept by , and Philiscus followed , Philiscus the ...
Página xxxiv
... rich dank soil , and where myriad cities pour their taxes into his treasuries . Ptolemy held lands also in Phoenicia , and Arabia ; he claimed Syria and Libya and Aethiopia ; he was lord of the distant Pam- phylians , of the Cilicians ...
... rich dank soil , and where myriad cities pour their taxes into his treasuries . Ptolemy held lands also in Phoenicia , and Arabia ; he claimed Syria and Libya and Aethiopia ; he was lord of the distant Pam- phylians , of the Cilicians ...
Página xxxviii
... rich Alexandrian had pictures or frescoes on his walls , it appears that the painters took the lead , that the initi- ative in art was theirs . The Alexandrian pictures perished long ago , but the relics of Alexandrian style which ...
... rich Alexandrian had pictures or frescoes on his walls , it appears that the painters took the lead , that the initi- ative in art was theirs . The Alexandrian pictures perished long ago , but the relics of Alexandrian style which ...
Página xli
... rich in domestic pathos and incident which contrast strongly with Pindar's bare narrative of the same events . We have noted the same pictorial quality in the Europa of Moschus . Our own age has often been compared to the Alexandrian ...
... rich in domestic pathos and incident which contrast strongly with Pindar's bare narrative of the same events . We have noted the same pictorial quality in the Europa of Moschus . Our own age has often been compared to the Alexandrian ...
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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...