The Greek Anthology

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W. Blackwood & Sons, 1874 - 210 עמודים
 

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עמוד 58 - With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
עמוד 129 - Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung ; Whose soul, exalted like a god of wit, Among the Muses and the Graces writ.
עמוד 200 - WHILE on the cliff with calm delight she kneels, And the blue vales a thousand joys recall,, See, to the last, last verge her infant steals ! O fly — yet stir not, speak not, lest it fall. Far better taught, she lays her bosom bare, And the fond boy springs back to nestle there.
עמוד 93 - I mysel' a drap o' dew, Into her bonnie breast to fa' ! Oh, there beyond expression blest. I'd feast on beauty a' the night ; Seal'd on her silk-saft faulds to rest, Till fley'd awa' by Phoebus
עמוד 132 - Plutarch, to thy deathless praise Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise ; Because both Greece and she thy fame have shared ; Their heroes written, and their lives compared. But thou thyself couldst never write thy own : Their lives have parallels, but thine has none.
עמוד 93 - See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
עמוד 180 - Or this, which is attributed to the Emperor Trajan : — " Let Dick some summer's day expose Before the sun his monstrous nose, And stretch his giant-mouth to cause Its shade to fall upon his jaws ; With nose so long, and mouth so wide, And those twelve grinders side by side, Dick, with a very little trial, Would make an excellent sun-dial.
עמוד 181 - Dick cannot blow his nose whene'er he pleases, His nose so long is, and his arm so short; Nor ever cries, God bless me ! when he sneezes — He cannot hear so distant a report.

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