Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets: Designed Principally for the Use of Young Persons at School and College : Part I, الجزء 1John Murray, 1830 - 239 من الصفحات |
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Achilles Æneas Æneid Æschylus amongst ancient Apollo Batrachomyomachia beautiful Cæsura called Ceres character Circe classic composition Cowper criticism Digamma divine earth Eumæus Fable Fancy Genius genuine Goddess Gods Greece Greek heart Hector hero Herodotus heroic Hesiod Homer Homeric Hymns Hymn Idomeneus Iliad Imagination immortal Ionian Isis Jupiter language Little Iliad manner Mercury Metanira mind modern moral Mysteries Mythology nature never Odyssey passage passion Patroclus peculiar perhaps Pisistratus Plato Plutarch poem poetry poets Proserpine recited remarkable Rhapsodies Rhapsodists says seems Similes spirit story suitors Telemachus thing thou Thucydides tion Trojan Troy Ulysses Venus verses whilst words ἀλλ ἀμφὶ ἀπὸ ἄρ ἄρα αὐτὰρ γάρ δὲ δὴ Διὸς ἐγὼ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐνὶ ἐπ ἐπεὶ ἐπὶ ἐς καὶ μέγα μὲν μοι νῦν οἱ οὐ οὐδὲ οὐκ πάντα περ περὶ τε τὴν τὸ τὸν τῷ τῶν ὑπὸ ὡς
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الصفحة 23 - In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetched, Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
الصفحة 23 - Towards the crescent Moon, with grateful heart Called on the lovely wanderer who bestowed That timely light, to share his joyous sport: And hence, a beaming Goddess with her Nymphs, Across the lawn and through the darksome grove (Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes By echo multiplied from rock or cave) Swept in the storm of chase, as Moon and Stars Glance rapidly along the clouded heaven, When winds are blowing strong.
الصفحة 12 - LEAR. Then let them anatomize Regan ; see what breeds about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?
الصفحة 166 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil ; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon...
الصفحة 12 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
الصفحة 34 - Greek — the shrine of the genius of the old world ; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable strength, with the complication and the distinctness of nature herself ; to which nothing was vulgar, from which nothing was excluded ; speaking to the ear like Italian, speaking to the mind like English ; with words like pictures, with words like the gossamer film of the summer...
الصفحة 22 - Could find commodious place for every God, Promptly received, as prodigally brought, From the surrounding countries, at the choice Of all adventurers. With...
الصفحة 201 - When he had wrought the lovely instrument, He tried the chords, and made division meet Preluding with the plectrum, and there went Up from beneath his hand a tumult sweet Of mighty sounds, and from his lips he sent A strain of unpremeditated wit Joyous and wild and wanton...
الصفحة 10 - O ! then. I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the fore-finger of an alderman,* Drawn with a team of little atomies Over' men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
الصفحة 11 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies