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... Papers for teachers - Page 2301880Full view - About this book
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. JJ 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, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...spreads her wizard stream. Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream! had ye been there... for what could that have done? what could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, the...enchanting son, whom universal Nature did lament, into Greek Hexameter Verse 493 when, by the rout that made the hideous roar, his gory visage down the... | |
| John Milton - 1864 - 586 pages
...dream Had ye been there, — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Oipheus bore,— The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, — •... | |
| Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...predicts, "Nee te, stulte, tuae poterunt defendere Musae" (45). This looks to two lines in "Lycidas": "What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, / The Muse herself, for her enchanting son" (58-59). A more literal translation is the lament for Orpheus in Paradise Lost: "Nor could the Muse... | |
| David Fideler - Philosophy - 1991 - 388 pages
...song, its supremacy in music symbolized in the legend of Orpheus, whose head and lyre, as Milton wrote "down the stream was sent / Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore."-' Lesbos — the home of Terpander, Sappho, Alkaios, and of the lesser-known Perikleitos who, like his... | |
| John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...that lave don? What could the Muse her self that Orpheus bore, The Muse her self, for her inchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, Hisgoary visage down the Stream was sent, Down we swift Hcbrus to the Lesbian shore . Alas! What boots... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...sing, and build the lofty rhyme. (lines 10-11) The image of Orpheus is appropriately present yet again: What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (lines 58-63) Orpheus... | |
| Plato - Philosophy - 1993 - 196 pages
...was afterward torn to pieces by Maenads, and his severed head floated down the stream, still singing. What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her inchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...use asking where the nymphs were when Lycidas drowned: Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Orpheus is not just any victim of mob violence: he is a figure for the poet himself, and for the reader... | |
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