The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern TimesG. Bell and sons, 1875 - 695 էջ |
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... afterwards more generally used for all inscriptions on religious and other public edifices ; and was in time employed to express any record , whether in prose or verse , which was engraved on statues of gods and men , and on the wayside ...
... afterwards more generally used for all inscriptions on religious and other public edifices ; and was in time employed to express any record , whether in prose or verse , which was engraved on statues of gods and men , and on the wayside ...
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... afterwards unfortunately allowed to fall much into desuetude . From this period may be dated the restoration of Latin epigrammatic literature . But , though Latin was the lan- guage , the ancient Latin writers were not the models . The ...
... afterwards unfortunately allowed to fall much into desuetude . From this period may be dated the restoration of Latin epigrammatic literature . But , though Latin was the lan- guage , the ancient Latin writers were not the models . The ...
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... afterwards married . Praxiteles in sculpture rivalled Apelles in painting . His statue of Venus at Cnidos , was one of his most celebrated works , and , according to the story , surprised even the goddess herself . There is a well ...
... afterwards married . Praxiteles in sculpture rivalled Apelles in painting . His statue of Venus at Cnidos , was one of his most celebrated works , and , according to the story , surprised even the goddess herself . There is a well ...
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... afterwards enlarged by later writers . As an acknowledgment of his services in thus preserving these beautiful fragments , Brunck and Jacobs place his own epigrams before those of all other writers . THE MURMUR OF LOVE ( Jacobs I. 17 ...
... afterwards enlarged by later writers . As an acknowledgment of his services in thus preserving these beautiful fragments , Brunck and Jacobs place his own epigrams before those of all other writers . THE MURMUR OF LOVE ( Jacobs I. 17 ...
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... afterwards he went again to the eastern capital , where Valens advanced him to his former dignities , and designed his advancement to greater . He again returned to Nazianzum , at the request of S. Gregory , and there died . PALLADAS ...
... afterwards he went again to the eastern capital , where Valens advanced him to his former dignities , and designed his advancement to greater . He again returned to Nazianzum , at the request of S. Gregory , and there died . PALLADAS ...
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1870 |
The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1876 |
The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1870 |
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Էջ 561 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Էջ 237 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Էջ 214 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? " Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic k summer's heat?
Էջ 458 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember ? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on : And yet, within a month,— Let me not think on't, — Frailty, thy name is woman ! — A little month ; or ere those shoes were old, With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears : — why she, even she, — O heaven ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...
Էջ 166 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Էջ 155 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Էջ 397 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Էջ 432 - O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...
Էջ 267 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Էջ 34 - Ay me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?