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" BLEST as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak, and sweetly smile. 'T was this deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumults in my breast : For while I gazed, in transport tost,... "
Thaddeus of Warsaw: Four Volumes in Two - Page 93
by Jane Porter - 1817
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Thaddeus of Warsaw, Volume 2

Jane Porter - Poland - 1806 - 264 pages
...top, " To him who will apply them." On perusing farther, he found them to be Mr. Phillips' beautiful translation of that ode of Sappho, which runs : " Blest as the immortal gods is he, " The friend who fondly sits by theo, " And hears and sees fhee all the while, " Softly speak, and sweetly...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 13

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...Favour thy suppliant's hidden fires, And give me all my heart desires. A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO. ! > M - i as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits hy thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak, and Sweetly smile. 'T was this depriv' d my soul...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...The hirj«, di^miss'd (while yo t remain), Bore back their empty car ag :iu : A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO. BLEST as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak, and sweetly smile. 'T was this depriv'd...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...this famous fragment. I shall, in the last place, present my reader with the English translation. I. ' Blest as the immortal gods is he, * The youth who fondly sits by thee, ' And hears and sees thee all the while ' Softly speak and sweetly smile. II. ' "Twas this...
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The Beauties of Modern Literature, in Verse and Prose: To which is Prefixed ...

Martin MacDermot - English literature - 1824 - 604 pages
...sensibility to feel, and intellect to understand". The following is Philips's translation of this Ode. Blest as the immortal Gods is he The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while, Fondly speak, and sweetly smile. 'Twas this deprived...
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Thaddeus of Warsaw ...

Jane Porter - Children's stories - 1829 - 240 pages
...farther, he found them to be Mr. Addison'• beantiful translation of that ode of Sappho which rum : " Blest as the immortal Gods is he " The youth who fondly sits by thee, " And hears and sees thee all the while, " Softly speak and sweetly smile. " 'Twos this deprived...
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Poems

William Thomas Moncrieff - English poetry - 1829 - 198 pages
...a just pride in the superiority, universally admitted, of Ambrose Phillips's exquisite version ' ' Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee," &c. over every other imitation of this noble relique of antiquity. 32 RHAPSODY. " This is...
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Q. Horatii Flacci Poëmata: textum, ad praestantissimas editiones recognitum ...

Horace - 1830 - 1104 pages
...Sappho. « vreserved by Longiniu (10. 2.) Фо/ит«и pot тЦк* Icos $uˇ™ «•. т. ». i " Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees tbee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. 'Twas this deprived...
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Thaddeus of Warsaw. Revised

Jane Porter - 1831 - 482 pages
...top:— " To him who will apply them." On perusing farther, he found them to be Mr. Phillips's beautiful translation of that ode of Sappho, which runs — '* Blest as the immortal gods is he, The friend who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while. Softly speak, and sweetly smile!...
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The Adventures of Caleb Williams: Or, Things as They are

William Godwin - 1832 - 964 pages
...— "To him who will apply them." On perusing farther, he found them to be Mr. Phillips's beautiful translation of that ode of Sappho, which runs — " Blest as the immortal gods is be, The friend who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak, and sweetly...
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