 To glorify their Tempe, bred in me • Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions, Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 380edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...Nightingale : the tale on which it is founded is familiar to all classical readers : — "¡fenaphon. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feigned To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that Paradise. To Theesaly I came, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...' Lover's Melancholy.'] МВНЛРНОМ and AMKTHUS. Men. Passing from Italy to Greece, the talei Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify...paradise. To Thessaly I came ; and living private, kVithout acquaintance of more sweet companion! Than the ola inmates to my love, my thought«, '. day... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - Art, Greek - 1853 - 614 pages
...to lend their eloquence to the silent epitaphs. We leave Larissa and proceed eastward: — " Passins from Italy to Greece, the tales Which Poets of an elder time have feigned To glorify their TEMPE, bred ia me Desire of visiting that Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1854 - 572 pages
...Yet we carouse it off ! THE LOVER'S MELANCHOLY, BY JOHN FORD. Contention of a Bird and a Musician. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign' d To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came, and... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...Italy to Greece, the tales M'hich poets of an elder time have feigned To glorify their Tempe, bred iu me Desire of visiting that Paradise. To Thessaly I came ; and living private, I, day by day, frequented sileut groves And solitary walks." Among the many ancient writers who have... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...present only the following passage : — CONTENTION OF A BIRD AND A MUSICIAN. Menaphon and Amel/ius. Men, Passing- from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tenipe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came; and living- private, Without... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...the lodging of the lamb. Many a poet loves to hear that account of himself given by a traveller : " To Thessaly I came ; and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates of my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks." In fine, even the... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...1586—1639. Contention of a Bird and a Musician (From the Lover's Melancholy.) MENAPHON and AMETHUS. Men. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feigned To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came ; and... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Aesthetics - 1857 - 374 pages
...as anything in Beaumont and Fletcher; and almost equals the strife which it celebrates." " Menaphon. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feigu'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Theasaly I came ; and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...Which pools of an elder time have feigned To glorify their Tempe" bred in mo Desire ot visiting this Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions fhan the old inmates to my love, my thought*, I day by day frequenf ed silent groves And solitary walks.... | |
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