 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 610 pages
...Christ, than exists anywhere in the subsequent literature of that marvellous people. We would say with Wordsworth, — ' O ye who patiently explore The wreck...seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender- hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! ' But this is vain wishing. They made clean work at Constantinople... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own /Koliaii lute. O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth Of poesy ; a bursting forth Of Genius from the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 634 pages
...Christ, than exists anywhere in the subsequent literature of that marvellous people. We would say with Wordsworth, — ' O ye who patiently explore The wreck...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides !' 2 H But But this is vain wishing. They made clean work at Constantinople ! Every... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 608 pages
...Christ, than exists anywhere in the subsequent literature of that marvellous people. We would say with Wordsworth, — ' O ye who patiently explore The wreck...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! ' 2 H But But this is vain wishing. They made clean work at Constantinople ! Every... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 528 pages
...Catullus, " MoEstius lacrymis SimonideVs," and at its close we can join in the wish so finely breathed by Wordsworth, — " O ye who patiently explore The...Herculanean lore, What rapture, could ye seize Some Tlieban fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! " Jortin's version... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 518 pages
...Catullus, " .Mi -;iu- lacrymis Simonidei's," and at its close we can join in the wish so finely breathed by Wordsworth, — " O ye who patiently explore The...fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! " Jortin's version is indeed very beautiful, and not one of our modern scholars... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...Edited by the Countess of Morley. 3 vols. 8vo., 1834. 2. Two Old Men's Talet. 2 vols. 8vo., 1834. & ! YE, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides.' — — So exclaims the purest and greatest of our living poets. But were it ours... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 594 pages
...vols. 8vo., 1834. 2. Two Old Men's Tales. £ vols. Svo., 1834. ' f\H ! YE, who patiently explore ^J The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could...fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides.' — — So exclaims the purest and greatest of our living poets. But were it ours... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...Edited by the Countess of Morley. 3 vols. 8vo., 1834. 2. Two Old Men's Tales. 2 vols. 8vo., 1834. H ! YE, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could ye seize Some The ban fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides.' — — So exclaims... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...pursuit ; Love listening while the Lesbian maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own vEolian lute. O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth , ' Of poesy ; a bursting forth Of genius from... | |
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O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonides. 
