Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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... song . The collectors , critics , librarians of Alexandria could only pro- duce literary imitations of the epic and the hymn , or could at best write epigrams or inscriptions for the statue of some alien and luxurious god . Their ...
... song . The collectors , critics , librarians of Alexandria could only pro- duce literary imitations of the epic and the hymn , or could at best write epigrams or inscriptions for the statue of some alien and luxurious god . Their ...
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... songs of the neatherds which he elevated into art . We can ascertain the nature of the demand for poetry in the chief cities and in the literary society of the time . As a result , we can under- stand the broad twofold division of the ...
... songs of the neatherds which he elevated into art . We can ascertain the nature of the demand for poetry in the chief cities and in the literary society of the time . As a result , we can under- stand the broad twofold division of the ...
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... songs still sound among the pines , or by the sea - banks , where Theocritus ' watched the visionary flocks . ' Theocritus was probably born in an early decade of the third century , or , according to Couat , about 315 B.C. , and was a ...
... songs still sound among the pines , or by the sea - banks , where Theocritus ' watched the visionary flocks . ' Theocritus was probably born in an early decade of the third century , or , according to Couat , about 315 B.C. , and was a ...
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... songs of Stesichorus , a minstrel of the early period , and the little rural ' mimes ' or interludes of Sophron are lost , and we have only fragments of Epicharmus . But it seems certain that these poets , predecessors of Theo- critus ...
... songs of Stesichorus , a minstrel of the early period , and the little rural ' mimes ' or interludes of Sophron are lost , and we have only fragments of Epicharmus . But it seems certain that these poets , predecessors of Theo- critus ...
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... song which was to charm her lover home . The magical image melted in the burning , the herbs smouldered , the tale of love was told , and slowly the singer ' drew the quiet night into her blood . ' Her lay ended with a passage of ...
... song which was to charm her lover home . The magical image melted in the burning , the herbs smouldered , the tale of love was told , and slowly the singer ' drew the quiet night into her blood . ' Her lay ended with a passage of ...
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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...