 | Herbert Allen Giles - Chinese literature - 1884 - 284 pages
...theme is endless, and I shall therefore content myself with this passing record of my old inkstand. O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. MISCELLANEOUS. [THE proverbial philosophy of the Chinese is on a scale commensurate... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1888 - 350 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 Wordsworth - 1889 - 140 pages
...pursuit; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion sway'd Her own ¿Eolian lute.' O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender.hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. 4 The” Lesbian Maid” is Sappho, cole. brated in classic lore fur her impassioned... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1889 - 488 pages
...passion swayed Her own y£olian lute. O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, 5° What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban 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 - English literature - 1889 - 468 pages
...passion swayed Her own /Eolian lute. O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, 50 What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban 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, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - 251 pages
...pursuit; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion sway'd Her own ,-Koliau lute.* 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.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1892 - 970 pages
...touch of passion swayed Her own /Eolian lute. О ус, who patiently explore The wreck of Uerculanean lore, What rapture! could ye seize Some Theban 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 - 1892 - 374 pages
...; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own JEo\ia.n lute. O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could yc seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 422 pages
...passion swayed Her own .ZEolian lute. 0 ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, 50 What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth 55 Of poesy ; a bursting forth Of genius from... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1894 - 432 pages
...hath Assumed.' says — O ye, who patiently explore Tl,e wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture I could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonides. In a sonnet ascribed to him by Coleridge (Athenoeum, November 4, 1893) Wordsworth... | |
| |
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. 
