 | 1886 - 494 pages
...my vital frame ; On my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung : With dewy damp my limbs were chilled ; My blood with gentle horrors...thrilled ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sank, and died away. —Transl. of AMBROSE PHILLIPS. CAXTON, WILLIAM, the first English printer, born... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung ; In dewy damps my limbs were chilled ; My blood with...forgot to play — I fainted, sunk, and died away. From the Greek of SAPPHO, by AMBROSE PHILLIPS. THE WHISTLE. ' OU have heard, " said a youth to his... | |
 | Georg Ebers - 1888 - 426 pages
...dim eyes a darkness hung, My ears with hollow murmurs rung; " ' With dewy damp my limbs were chill'd; My blood with gentle horrors thrilled; My feeble pulse forgot to play; I fainted sunk and died away.' " Now, what do you say to this song? But by Hercules, child, how pale you are! Have the verses affected... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 pages
...with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd My feeble pulse forgot to play, I fainted, sunk, and died away. Sappho's contemporary, Anacreon, was a great erotic genius in a different style. The characteristics... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1888 - 446 pages
...hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were cliill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors tbrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away." The grave Solon paid our authoress a delicate compliment. Having heard his nephew recite one of her... | |
 | William Hyde Appleton (ed.) - 1893 - 420 pages
...through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung ; In dewy damps my limbs were chilled ; My blood with...pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away. Ambrose Philips. HYMN TO APHRODITE. THRONED in splendor, immortal Aphrodite ! Child of Zeus, Enchantress,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 472 pages
...frame: O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy dumps my limbe were chilled ; My blood with gentle horrors thrilled...forgot to play — I fainted, sunk, and died away. from Ou Gretk oj Sont", bij Лмввоак PHILIPS. CATO AND THE ORACLE OF JUPITER AMMON. [Marcus Anneeua... | |
 | William Hyde Appleton - 1893 - 418 pages
...through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away. Ambrose Philips. HYMN TO APHRODITE. THRONED in splendor, immortal Aphrodite ! Child of Zeus, Enchantress,... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 424 pages
...through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung : IV. In dewy damps my limbs were chilled ; My blood with...pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away. Instead of giving any character of this last translation, I shall desire my learned reader to look... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 pages
...through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung : IV. In dewy damps my limbs were chilled ; My blood with...pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away. Instead of giving any character of this last translation, I shall desire my learned reader to look... | |
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... deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumults in my breast ; For while I gazed, in transport tost. My breath was gone, my voice was lost : III. 
