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" ... HERACLITUS THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou... "
Journal of Social Science - Page 86
1903
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Ionica, Issue 30

William Johnson Cory - 1858 - 128 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake, For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. I WILL not leave the smouldering pyre: Enough remains to light again: But who...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 914 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that yon are lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...death he taketh all away, but these he cannot take. It is possible to read the thought in the original differently, that immortality is given to the song,...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1914 - 872 pages
...garden and the countless nightingales which soothed his wounded spirits with their delicious song. ' Yet are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake,...Death, he taketh all away, but these he cannot take.' At Christmas Bembo went to Bologna to meet the Pope, and to see the Emperor, who came, it was fondly...
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Recitations at Whitnash rectory

Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake, For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. WJ W iïtttttus Scœfcola* Komanus sum civis : С. Mucium vacant. Hostis hostem...
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Sertum, a Greek reading book for the use of the fourth form at Eton

Sertum - 1869 - 114 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou.art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake, For death he taketh all away, but them he canuot take." 4. -AAiirap»Tjirireu] of Halimrnassus, in Caria. 5 рoч»] Dative after ¿vißa\ei....
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 44

Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 pages
...its Hellenic development, we at once enter guest, a naturally artistic atmosphere. Until after his A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still...nightingales, awake, For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. This, to be sure, is a paraphrase, yet it conveys the feeling better than the...
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Studies of the Greek Poets, Volume 2

John Addington Symonds - 1873 - 444 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake, For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take." *?TS rif, *Hpa*Xeir« rtiv /iopov, 2j Ss /it laicpv fiyayev, fytvr/<rflijv S"...
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Gossip in a Library

Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 360 pages
...and sent him down the sky. dnd now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, e/f handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake ; For TJeath, he taketh all away, but these he cannot take. No translation ever smelt less of the lamp, and...
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Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Volume 32

1891 - 890 pages
...art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are they pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake, For death he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. Heraclitus, we need hardly remind our readers, was not a singer, but a creator;...
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The Nature and Elements of Poetry

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 376 pages
...instance of what I mean, let me repeat Cory's imitation of the elegiacs of Callimachus on his friend Heracleitus : — " They told me, Heracleitus, they...nightingales, awake, For Death — he taketh all away, but them he cannot take." This, to be sure, is a paraphrase, yet it conveys the feeling better than the...
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