Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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Página xii
... 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 critical activity in every field of xii THEOCRITUS AND HIS AGE.
... 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 critical activity in every field of xii THEOCRITUS AND HIS AGE.
Página xviii
... statue of the naked fisherman in the Vatican . One cannot read these verses but the vision returns to one , of sandhills by the sea , of a low cabin roofed with grass , where fishing - rods of reed are leaning against the door , while ...
... statue of the naked fisherman in the Vatican . One cannot read these verses but the vision returns to one , of sandhills by the sea , of a low cabin roofed with grass , where fishing - rods of reed are leaning against the door , while ...
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... statue of hammered iron . The muscles on his brawny arms , close by the shoulder , stood out like rounded rocks , that the winter torrent has rolled , and worn smooth , in the great swirling stream , but about his back and neck was ...
... statue of hammered iron . The muscles on his brawny arms , close by the shoulder , stood out like rounded rocks , that the winter torrent has rolled , and worn smooth , in the great swirling stream , but about his back and neck was ...
Página 121
... statue of Love . This poem is not attributed with much certainty to Theocritus , and is found in but a small proportion of manuscripts . A LOVE - SICK youth pined for an unkind love , beautiful in form , but fair no more in mood . The ...
... statue of Love . This poem is not attributed with much certainty to Theocritus , and is found in but a small proportion of manuscripts . A LOVE - SICK youth pined for an unkind love , beautiful in form , but fair no more in mood . The ...
Página 124
... statue leaped , and slew that cruel one , and the water was red with blood , but the voice of the slain kept floating to the brim . Rejoice , ye lovers , for he that hated is slain . Love , all ye beloved , for the God knoweth how to ...
... statue leaped , and slew that cruel one , and the water was red with blood , but the voice of the slain kept floating to the brim . Rejoice , ye lovers , for he that hated is slain . Love , all ye beloved , for the God knoweth how to ...
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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...