The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 42
Page 34
... earth ! I rival ( conscious of my humbler strain ) Philetas or Sicelidas , in vain ! And though my melodies may sooth a friend , A croaking frog with locusts , I contend ! ' 6 Thus I with art - But , smiling arch , the youth Exclaim'd ...
... earth ! I rival ( conscious of my humbler strain ) Philetas or Sicelidas , in vain ! And though my melodies may sooth a friend , A croaking frog with locusts , I contend ! ' 6 Thus I with art - But , smiling arch , the youth Exclaim'd ...
Page 49
... earth unquench'd my embers live ; Then to the flame my beard - my eyebrow , give . For e'en to burn my life - blood I could bear— Or this far dearer eye - to please my fair . O had I sprung ( alas ! my hapless doom ) With fins , like ...
... earth unquench'd my embers live ; Then to the flame my beard - my eyebrow , give . For e'en to burn my life - blood I could bear— Or this far dearer eye - to please my fair . O had I sprung ( alas ! my hapless doom ) With fins , like ...
Page 66
... earth , assembled there ! And green shades , arched with anise , rise , Where many a little Cupid flies , spray ! Like the young nightingales that love , New - fledged , to flutter through the grove- Now perching , now with short essay ...
... earth , assembled there ! And green shades , arched with anise , rise , Where many a little Cupid flies , spray ! Like the young nightingales that love , New - fledged , to flutter through the grove- Now perching , now with short essay ...
Page 67
... earth's green seats return ! Such favour not the ' Atridæ knew , Nor who the fleecy flocks o'erthrew ! Nor Hector , his fond mother's joy ; Nor Pyrrhus , proud of plunder'd Troy ! Nor e'en Patroclus great and good ; Nor they who boast ...
... earth's green seats return ! Such favour not the ' Atridæ knew , Nor who the fleecy flocks o'erthrew ! Nor Hector , his fond mother's joy ; Nor Pyrrhus , proud of plunder'd Troy ! Nor e'en Patroclus great and good ; Nor they who boast ...
Page 68
... earth ; The deathless Muse and mortal Poet share , Touch'd with a kindred flame , a kindred care . Yet who , beneath the circling sun , repays With grateful presents our applausive lays ? Lo ! from the proud unhospitable dome Our ...
... earth ; The deathless Muse and mortal Poet share , Touch'd with a kindred flame , a kindred care . Yet who , beneath the circling sun , repays With grateful presents our applausive lays ? Lo ! from the proud unhospitable dome Our ...
Contents
85 | |
91 | |
94 | |
97 | |
102 | |
111 | |
113 | |
116 | |
42 | |
44 | |
47 | |
50 | |
52 | |
55 | |
59 | |
68 | |
72 | |
77 | |
79 | |
80 | |
82 | |
117 | |
119 | |
120 | |
129 | |
133 | |
135 | |
136 | |
142 | |
151 | |
160 | |
171 | |
215 | |
224 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adonis Alcmena amidst Amycus Anacreon ancient Apollonius Rhodius Aratus bard beautiful Bion bless'd bloom bosom Brasidas breast breath Bucolic Catullus character charms Cicada cries Cupid DAPH Daphnis death delight display'd e'en earth eclogue ELEGY Epigrams Epithalamium eyes fair fame fate flame flowers Galatea genius glow goat goatherd Gorgo grace Greek grove hail hath heart Heinsius Hercules herds herdsman honour Hylas Idyllia IDYLLIUM imitated Jove kiss live lover Lycidas maid melting cadence Moschus Muse Nicias numbers flow nymph o'er Orpheus Ovid pale pass'd passage pastoral woe piece Pindar pipe poem poet Pollux Praxinoe Priapus Ptolemy racters rise rustic sacred says scene shade SHEP shepherd Sicilian Sicily sigh sing sleep soft song sorrows soul strain of pastoral sung sure swain sweet tears tenderest notes complain thee Theocritus thine thou Thyrsis translator Tyrtæus Venus Virgil virgin Warton wave Whilst wild youth
Popular passages
Page 203 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 306 - Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 264 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Page 258 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 297 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Page 257 - WOE to the land shadowing with wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia : That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, Even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying. Go, ye swift messengers, To a nation scattered and peeled, To a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; A nation meted out and trodden down, Whose land the rivers have spoiled...
Page 305 - For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Page 261 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 312 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 257 - Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass: for the water was stained to a surprising redness; and, as we observed in travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of minium, or red earth, washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood...