Thou comest, to this region's blest retreats, Where white Colonos lifts his head, And glories in the bounding steed. Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassioned pours his evening song, And charms with varied notes each verdant vale, The ivy's... The Tragedies of Sophocles - Page 91by Sophocles - 1813 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sophocles - Mythology, Greek - 1819 - 428 pages
...I know My name shall guard thee from th' assault of ill. CEDIPUS, ANTIGONE, CHORUS. CHORUS. «TRO. 1. Well, stranger, to these rural seats Thou comest,...lifts his head, And glories in the bounding steed. d£ CEDIPUS OtflVCOLONUS. 687-720 Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassion'd pours her... | |
| Conrad Malte-Brun - Atlases - 1829 - 472 pages
...translation of a passage in Sophocles. We subjoin the more correct and literal version by Potter. STHO I. Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassion'd...ivy's dark-green boughs among; Or shelter'd 'midst the clustering vine, Which high above to form a bow'r Safe from the sun or stormy show'r, I. oves its thick... | |
| Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...Sophocles : it is a welcome to a stranger who had arrived at Mount Colonus, in the vicinity of Athens. Well, stranger, to these rural seats Thou comest,...steed ; Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale, Impassioned pours her evening song, And charms with varied note each verdant vale! The ivy's dark green... | |
| Hermann Hettner - Athens (Greece) - 1854 - 248 pages
...; but never before have I felt as I did to-day the full power of its touching and tender beauty. " Well, stranger, to these rural seats Thou comest —...'midst the cluster'd vine, Which high above, to form a bower Safe from the sun or stormy shower, Loves its thick branches to entwine, Where frolic Bacchus... | |
| Charles Kingsley - America - 1875 - 168 pages
...And glories in the bounding steed. Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassioned pours his evening song, And charms with varied notes each verdant vale, The ivy's dark-green boughs among, Or sheltered 'neath the clustering vine Which, high above him form a bower, Safe from the sun or stormy... | |
| Charles Kingsley - America - 1875 - 174 pages
...hap, stranger, to these rural seats Thou comest, to this region's blest retreats, Where white Colonos lifts his head, And glories in the bounding steed. Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassioned pours his evening song, And charms with varied notes each verdant vale, The ivy's dark-green... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Literary Collections - 1880 - 448 pages
...And glories in the bounding steed. Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassioned pours his evening song, And charms with varied notes each verdant vale, The ivy's dark-green boughs among, Or sheltered 'neath the clustering vine Which, high above him forms a bower, Safe from the sun or stormy... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 448 pages
...hap, stranger, to these rural scats Thou comest, to this region's blest retreats, Where white Colonos lifts his head, And glories in the bounding steed. Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassioned pours his evening song, And charms with varied notes each verdant vale, The ivy's dark-green... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Literary Collections - 1890 - 442 pages
...hap, stranger, to these rural seats Thou comest, to this region's blest retreats, "Where white Colonos lifts his head, And glories in the bounding steed. Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassioned pours his evening song, And charms with varied notes each verdant vale, The ivy's dark-green... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 314 pages
...supprest ; And then, with unreverting eyes to us Returning, wait in confidence the rest. CHORUS. Strophe 1. Well, stranger, to these rural seats Thou comest,...lifts his head, And glories in the bounding steed. [ 96 ] Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassion'd pours her evening song, And charms with... | |
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