 | Lord Neaves - Anthologia graeca - 1874 - 236 pages
...the 90th year of his age. He is the same to whom Wordsworth refers in those beautiful lines : — " 0 ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Some of the pieces bearing the name of this author may be the productions of other and inferior artists... | |
 | Lord Neaves - Antholigia graeca - 1874 - 234 pages
...refers in those beautiful lines :— " 0 ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, Wh.it rapture could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll * One precious tender-hearted scroll Some of the pieces bearing the name of this author may be the productions of other and inferior artists... | |
 | Richard Simpson (of Lower Clapton.) - 1875 - 768 pages
...Just revenge, by this, my son.' " — Simonides. O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Hwculanean lore, What rapture, could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! — Wordsworth. A Specimen of Alkceus. With armour gleams my stately hall : The... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...pursuit; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion sway'd Her own JEolian lute.4 O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture I could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides.... | |
 | Cornelius Conway Felton - Greece - 1877 - 1084 pages
...which about two hundred have been collected from the authors that quoted them. Wordsworth says : — "O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture, could ye seize Some Thcban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! " The poem on Danae,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 pages
...pursuit ; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own ^Eolian 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 [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 pages
...pursuit ; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own jEolian 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 Wordsworth - 1880 - 330 pages
...pursuit ; Love listening while the Lesbian maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own ^Eolian lute. O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unrol One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth Of... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...Love listening while the Lesbian maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own .-Eolian lute. 0 ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unrol One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth Of... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 618 pages
...Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own ./Eolian lute. 0 ye, who patiently explore 1 he wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could ye...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... | |
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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. 
