The Greek AnthologyW. Blackwood & Sons, 1874 - 210 頁 |
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A. C. vol admired Agathias Ajax ancient anonymous Antipater Antipater of Sidon Antiphilus Argive artist ascribed Athenians Athens Bacchus beauty blest breast breath Callimachus celebrated character charms couplet Cupid dead death deity delight divine e'er earth epigram epigrammatist epitaph Erinna eyes fame fate favourite Fcap feeling following epigram gems give given goddess gods Graces Greece Greek Anthology Greek epigram Hades hair hand heaven Hercules Hermes heroes Hipparchus Homer honour inscription Jove Juno Jupiter kind Leonidas Leonidas of Tarentum live Lucillius Lysippus Marathon Medes Meleager Minerva mother Muses ne'er Nemesis o'er Othryades Persian Phidias picture Planudes Plato poems poets Praxiteles reference Sappho satire Scopas sculpture seems Simonides song soul Spartans statue story supposed sweet tears tells thee thine thou Timomachus tion tomb translation by Merivale Venus verses victory wine
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第 58 頁 - 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.
第 129 頁 - 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.
第 193 頁 - Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee.
第 200 頁 - 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.
第 132 頁 - 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.
第 93 頁 - See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
第 180 頁 - 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.