 | James Easton - 1825 - 116 oldal
...antique Cleopatra, which next opens to view. On the margin of the bath are engraved the following lines : Nymph of the Grot, these sacred springs I keep, And to the murmur of these waters sleep ; Oh ! spare my slumbers, gently tread the Cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave. POPE. Answers.... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1829 - 360 oldal
...inadequately translated by Pope (See his Letter to Edward Blount, Esq. descriptive of his grotto). " Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah, " We cannot hope to match it," said Bolingbroke, " though you know I value myself on these things.... | |
 | James Northcote - 1830 - 418 oldal
...Nymph sleeping in a grotto. A spring of water issues from a rock, and falls into a bath under it. <l Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And...the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave portrait of the former by his godson. He also painted for him a large picture of the Flight into Egypt.... | |
 | James Easton - 1830 - 110 oldal
...Nymph of the Grot, these sacred springs I keep, And to the murmur of these waters sleep ; Oh t (pare my slumbers, gently tread the Cave, And drink in silence or in silence lave. POPS. jinsviert. Yes, guardian Nymph, thy Cave I softly tread, With veneration view thy tranquil bed... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 oldal
...murmur aquae : Parce meum, quisquis tangis cavamarmora, somnuin Rumpere ; si bibas, sive lavere, tace. Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And...the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave! Ben Jonson's celebrated Epitaph on the sister of Sir Philip Sidney is distinguished by the Epigrammatic... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1833 - 458 oldal
...beside her, which fell into a fine marble basin, on the edge of which were the following lines : — " Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And...spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink ia silence, or in silence lave." " On the other side of this grotto was another inscription, which... | |
 | George Monkland - 1833 - 74 oldal
...numbers, flowing as the stream — "Nymph of this grot, these sacred springs I keep, "And to the murmurs of these waters sleep, "Ah! spare my slumbers, gently...cave, "And drink in silence, or in silence lave." Forbid it Taste, that when so far from home, We should not yet a little farther roam, Since scarcely... | |
 | A. Walton - 1834 - 158 oldal
...quisquis tangis cava marmora somnum Rumpere, seu bibas, sive lavere, tace. Nymph of the grot, those sacred springs I keep, And to the murmur of these...the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave ! " You'll think I have been very poetical in this description, but it is pretty near the truth. I... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1835 - 230 oldal
...when many admired it, and I think I can still repeat the lines — yes, it was thus they ran : — ' Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And...cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.'* Little did they who graved this command conjecturehow well it was to be obeyed. But there should be... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1836 - 512 oldal
...inadequately translated by Pope (See his Letter to Edward Blount, Esq. descriptive of his grotto). *' Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep. And...cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.*' It is, however, quite impossible to convey to an unlearned reader the exquisite and spirit-like beauty... | |
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Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave. 
