 | John Edwin Sandys - Classical philology - 1908 - 576 pages
...further fulf1lment of the poet's fancy : — ' O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculancan lore, What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonidcs'1. ' Wordsworth, Poems of SaUiment and Reflection xxvii (Sept. 1819). The date is... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...listening while the Lesbian Maid \Vith finest touch of passion swayed H*-r own . !•!• .1 un lute. 0 heeks, And a rose her mouth. xvni I have led her home,...none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And swee Of pure Simonides. Tliat were, indeed, a genuine birth Of |K>esy ; a bursting forth Of genius from... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 336 pages
...touch of passion swayed Her own Aeolian lute. O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculancan 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... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1910 - 684 pages
...didst appear so fair To fond imagination Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. (e) What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. (/) But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices... | |
 | James Irving Manatt - Andros (Greece : Municipality) - 1914 - 480 pages
...of Campagna came to light; and Wordsworth, musing by Rydal Mount, uttered this prophetic note : — O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. If ' haughty Time ' has failed as yet to grant the letter of the poet's wish, the... | |
 | Mary Rebecca Thayer - Comparative literature - 1916 - 124 pages
...pursuit; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own Aeolian 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: What Horace gloried to behold, shall... | |
 | William Rhys Roberts - 1920 - 48 pages
...finally by our own Wordsworth writing just one hundred years ago last month (in September 1819, that is): O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides1. With the tenderness of the couplet that has been our theme to-day there goes a... | |
 | Leslie Nathan Broughton - Comparative literature - 1920 - 214 pages
...swayed Her own JBolian lute. Again in the same poem we may read the praise of two other Grecian poets: 0 ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonides. Note also the following expressions of appreciation for classical writers: "'Where... | |
 | Herbert Allen Giles - Chinese literature - 1923 - 324 pages
...endless, and I shall therefore content myself with this passing record of my old inkstand. iCf.— O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Sfmonides. HUAI TSUNG DIED AD 1644 [The last Emperor of the Ming dynasty. He made great efforts... | |
 | George Milligan - Bible - 1922 - 206 pages
...nephew of the Simonides for the recovery of whose works Wordsworth longed in a well-known sonnet : O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonides.* But significant though these discoveries were, their interest in public esteem... | |
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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. 
