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... Pindar's phrase , they " speak only to the wise . " And we shall afterwards have to notice other inevitable omissions . 66 The subject , even when limited , has thus far , I believe , been but briefly handled ; I might almost repeat ...
... Pindar's phrase , they " speak only to the wise . " And we shall afterwards have to notice other inevitable omissions . 66 The subject , even when limited , has thus far , I believe , been but briefly handled ; I might almost repeat ...
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... Pindar the Dorian ( 522-442 B.C. ) in a few lines paints what might be called a supernatural landscape , describing ... Pindar's sharply touched descrip- tive power - and of his deep religious feeling , with varied tints colouring the ...
... Pindar the Dorian ( 522-442 B.C. ) in a few lines paints what might be called a supernatural landscape , describing ... Pindar's sharply touched descrip- tive power - and of his deep religious feeling , with varied tints colouring the ...
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... Pindar , from the lovely sweet soft lyrics of the earlier day ! -like the contrast between Elizabethan love - songs and the 1 πρὶν ἂν πρὸς αὐτὸν Καύκασον μόλῃς , ὁρῶν ὕψιστον , ἔνθα ποταμὸς ἐκφυσᾷ μένος κροτάφων ἀπ ̓ αὐτῶν ...
... Pindar , from the lovely sweet soft lyrics of the earlier day ! -like the contrast between Elizabethan love - songs and the 1 πρὶν ἂν πρὸς αὐτὸν Καύκασον μόλῃς , ὁρῶν ὕψιστον , ἔνθα ποταμὸς ἐκφυσᾷ μένος κροτάφων ἀπ ̓ αὐτῶν ...
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... Pindar , to Tacitus and Dante . I will try to give a few examples . In his opening verses Nature , figured in her creative aspect as Alma Venus , moves through seas and mountains and 1 The Roman Poets of the Republic , to which I am ...
... Pindar , to Tacitus and Dante . I will try to give a few examples . In his opening verses Nature , figured in her creative aspect as Alma Venus , moves through seas and mountains and 1 The Roman Poets of the Republic , to which I am ...
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... Pindar . But , in fact , every natural phenomenon seized upon Lucretius with one undying passionate interest — At all such , he says , a certain divine pleasure and shuddering awe possesses me.2 Yet he could also see the beauty of a ...
... Pindar . But , in fact , every natural phenomenon seized upon Lucretius with one undying passionate interest — At all such , he says , a certain divine pleasure and shuddering awe possesses me.2 Yet he could also see the beauty of a ...
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Aeschylus beauty birds blue boughs breath bright calm Catullus Celtic century charm Chaucer classical clouds Coleridge colour cuckoo deep delight doth early earth Elocutio English exquisite fair feeling flowers fresh garden gift Glen Etive Greek Greek Anthology green hath heart heaven hence Henry Vaughan hills human imaginative Italian Italian poetry J. H. Newman Keats land Latin lines literature Lucretius mediaeval mind modern moon mountain murmur Nature night nightingale o'er painted passion perhaps Petrarch phrase picture Pindar poem poet poet's Proserpina quote R. W. Church rarely rendered rock Roman scene scenery seems sense sentiment shade Shelley sing Sirmio sleep song sonnet soul Spring stanza stars stream style sweet Tennyson thee Theocritus things thou thought touch trees Vergil verse vignettes waves whilst wild wind woods words Wordsworth δὲ ἐν καὶ τε
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Page 144 - In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Page 194 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 245 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 77 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Page 218 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
Page 219 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 203 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall. Heard only in the trances of the blast, Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet Moon, DEJECTION.
Page 144 - That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 227 - O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing...
Page 77 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.