 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 pages
...warmest feelings in the passion of love, which Sappho experienced in all their acuteness. Blest as the immortal Gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by...thee all the while, Softly speak, and sweetly smile. 'Twas this depriv'd my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz'd, in transport... | |
 | Jane Porter - English fiction - 1845 - 336 pages
...found them to he Mr. Add sou's beautiful translation of that ode of Sappho which runs : " Blest as the immortal Gods is he " The youth who fondly sits by thee, " And hears and sees tkee all the while, " Softly speak and sweetly smile. " "Twos this deprived my soul of rest, " And... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - Poets, English - 1846 - 436 pages
...emotion which marks the original. Most of my readers will remember that which begins, • Blest as the immortal Gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by...thee, all the while, Softly speak and sweetly smile. It is thus rendered by Mason: The youth that gazes on thy charms, Rivals in bliss the Gods on high,... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...woe ! Grant all ! — and thy great self bestow, My shield and guide ! TO THE BELOVED. BLEST as the immortal gods is he, The youth, who fondly sits by...thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. 'Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumults in my breast; For, while I gazed in transport... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - Gynecology - 1848 - 716 pages
...not only that he may live, but that he may live like a Christian and like a Gentleman. u Blest as the immortal Gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears anil sees thee all the while, Softly speak, and sweetly smile!'' The great stage of the world, we are... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1848 - 494 pages
...bears the sway, Let that frail thing, weak woman, have her way." POPS. THE MODERN GRISELDA. CHAPTER I. " Blest as th' immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits hy thee, Who sees and hears thee all the while. Softly speak and sweetly smile." "Is not this ode set... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - Gynecology - 1848 - 712 pages
...live, but that he may live like a Christian and like a Gentleman. "Blest as the immortal Gods is lie, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee nil the while, Softly speak, and sweetly smile!'' The great stage of the world, we are informed by... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...the fainoui fMvtTOtl fMt *r,K),- ttros Quifl, XTX " Blest as th* immortal gods is he, The youth that fondly sits by thee. And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speiik and sweetly smile," &c.] 3 fTo hear the clamour raised against Juvenal, it might 08 VOL. I.... | |
 | 1849 - 484 pages
...Ambrose Phillips' version. " Blest as the immortal gods is he ; The youth who fondly sits by thee : Who hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speak and sweetly smile, etc. It would scem that Hornce when composing his beautiful ode of " Integer ViUE," hud these versa... | |
 | Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles James Blomfield - Greek literature - 1851 - 414 pages
...Quvas Ou&v ir' "jilt' i;i~ja Kxoct pot, This celebrated lyric is thus translated by Mr. Phillips : — Blest as th* immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly...thee, all the while, Softly speak and sweetly smile. 'Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumults in my breast ; For, while I gazed, in... | |
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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. 
