 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.  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 93geredigeerd door - 1832Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 610 pagina’s
...Pericles would, no doubt, be as interesting as .Aristophanes' manipulation of Cleon ; and we ihould like very much to know whether Aristophanes really...seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender- hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! ' But this is vain wishing. They made clean work at Constantinople... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pagina’s
...; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own /Koliaii lute. O ye who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth Of poesy ; a bursting forth Of Genius from the dust : What Horace... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 608 pagina’s
...comedy ; their handling of Pericles would, no doubt, be as interesting as .Aristophanes' manipulation of Cleon ; and we should like very much to know whether...possess, is only ours, because it was enshrined in the unobnoxious manuscripts of collectors or critics. Every shred of their mantles — every string of... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 528 pagina’s
...Catullus, " MoEstius lacrymis SimonideVs," and at its close we can join in the wish so finely breathed by Wordsworth, — " O ye who patiently explore The wreck...Herculanean lore, What rapture, could ye seize Some Tlieban fragment, or unroll One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! " Jortin's version... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 518 pagina’s
...Catullus, " .Mi -;iu- lacrymis Simonidei's," and at its close we can join in the wish so finely breathed by Wordsworth, — " O ye who patiently explore The wreck...One precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! " Jortin's version is indeed very beautiful, and not one of our modern scholars wrote Latin verse... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 594 pagina’s
...vols. 8vo., 1834. 2. Two Old Men's Tales. £ vols. Svo., 1834. ' f\H ! YE, who patiently explore ^J The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could...precious tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides.' — — So exclaims the purest and greatest of our living poets. But were it ours to summon the libraries... | |
 | Anonymous - 1832 - 612 pagina’s
...comedy ; their handling of Pericles would, no doubt, be as interesting as Aristophanes' manipulation of Cleon ; and we should like very much to know whether...precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides ! ' But this is vain wishing. They made clean work at Constantinople ! Every divine verse of Sappho... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pagina’s
...pursuit ; Love listening while the Lesbian maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own vEolian lute. O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean...precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth , ' Of poesy ; a bursting forth Of genius from the dust ; What Horace... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1840 - 464 pagina’s
...own jEolian lute. 0 ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Ilerculanean lore, What rapture ! could yo 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 dust : What Horace... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1840 - 120 pagina’s
...STREPS.—He the wisest! O, what shall I call you ? But I refrain, lest I should again be beaten. 1 " O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore! What rapture, could you seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides!" WORDSWORTH.... | |
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