Studies of the Greek Poets, 1. kötetSmith, Elder, 1873 - 423 oldal |
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47. oldal
... elegies , like those of Solon or Theognis . The fragments of the Kalapμoi sufficiently display his style of earnest and imperious exhortation to make us be- lieve that at a time of political contention he would not spare this powerful ...
... elegies , like those of Solon or Theognis . The fragments of the Kalapμoi sufficiently display his style of earnest and imperious exhortation to make us be- lieve that at a time of political contention he would not spare this powerful ...
65. oldal
... elegies , we yet may trace the thread of gnomic thought in almost all the writers of their time . Conversely , the most genuine authors of elegiac gnomes trespassed upon the domain of lyric poetry , and sang of love and wine and per ...
... elegies , we yet may trace the thread of gnomic thought in almost all the writers of their time . Conversely , the most genuine authors of elegiac gnomes trespassed upon the domain of lyric poetry , and sang of love and wine and per ...
69. oldal
... elegies should be collected into one compendious form , and that passages of a gnomic tendency should be excerpted from larger poems on different subjects . In this way a body of sententious poetry grew up under the great names of Solon ...
... elegies should be collected into one compendious form , and that passages of a gnomic tendency should be excerpted from larger poems on different subjects . In this way a body of sententious poetry grew up under the great names of Solon ...
70. oldal
... elegies of Mimnermus , the poet of Colophon , who flourished toward the end of the seventh century B.C. His name has passed into a proverb for luxurious verse , saddened by reflections on the fleeting joys of youth , and on the sure and ...
... elegies of Mimnermus , the poet of Colophon , who flourished toward the end of the seventh century B.C. His name has passed into a proverb for luxurious verse , saddened by reflections on the fleeting joys of youth , and on the sure and ...
72. oldal
... elegies addressed to a flute - player called Nanno . They are worthy of such a subject . Nanno , according to one account , did not return the passion of the poet . In Mimnermus , however affected or morbid he may have been , we yet ...
... elegies addressed to a flute - player called Nanno . They are worthy of such a subject . Nanno , according to one account , did not return the passion of the poet . In Mimnermus , however affected or morbid he may have been , we yet ...
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139. oldal - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
322. oldal - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
324. oldal - Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean...
140. oldal - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within; all these things, with a solid, and treatable smoothness, to paint out and describe.
139. oldal - ... agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
136. oldal - Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
352. oldal - THOU wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled ; Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead.
351. oldal - THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky...
360. oldal - Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung ; Whose soul, exalted like a god of wit, Among the Muses and the Graces writ.
72. oldal - Ah ! fair and lovely bloom the flowers of youth ; On men and maids they beautifully smile : But soon comes doleful eld, who, void of ruth, Indifferently afflicts the fair and vile : Then cares wear out the heart ; old eyes forlorn Scarce reck the very sunshine to behold — Unloved by youths, of every maid the scorn — So hard a lot God lays upon the old.