 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pages
...give the best of the two in the well-known version of the Spectator. (2.) ON SOPHOCLES. * p. 298. AN WIND, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the...hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung. PLATO.f Xai firfV Kai %pvaeiov del Qeioio IlXarwvos KXwva, TOV e£ aperijs iravroQi \ainrofievov. —... | |
 | 1833 - 1056 pages
...Known to the deep-hair'd Mede who met him there. ON SOPHOCLES. — SIMMIAS OF THEBES.— ANONYMOUS. Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the...where Sophocles is laid. Sweet ivy, lend thine aid j and intertwine With blushing roses, and the clustering vine. Thus shall thy lasting leaves, with... | |
 | 1834 - 358 pages
...Otello, altered from Shakspeare by the Marchese di Berio, and composed by Rossini. ROUND—(Page 45). Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid. Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses, and the clustering vine. Thus will thy lasting... | |
 | 1836 - 296 pages
...honey-tongue displayed, among the Muses and the Graces." It was thus elegantly translated many years since : Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid : Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine "With blushing roses and the clustering vine ; Thus will thy lasting... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...not to have foonô any thing in them which is praise- worthy. ON SOPHOCLES, BY SIMONIDES. " Winde, gentle ever-green, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid : Sweet ivy winde thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering Tine : Thus will thy lasting... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...Millingen's Memoir on Greece, p. 36. c Fasti, v. 534. Tibul. lib. iii. el. 4. Propert. iii. el. 15. * Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid, ike. &c. e In modern Greece the Turks plant over graves the myrtle, and the amaryllis lutea.— Vid.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 pages
...care, Seated within my rocking-chair, What need that more be given ?' CkarUHon, (SO) RURAL CEMETERIES. •WIND, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid; Sweet Ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses, and the clustering vine ; So shall thy Boughs,... | |
 | 1839 - 384 pages
...with chaplets. The epitaph written by Simonides upon the tomb of Sophocles, is as follows : — '' Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid. Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine. Thus will thy lasting... | |
 | 1840 - 652 pages
...me, lassie, quickly die, Trusting that thou lov'st me. (Lonsdale.) ROUND,/or 3 Voices.— Dr. HAYES. WIND, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine ; Thus will thy lasting... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pages
...monumental inscriptions remaining. This is one. "UT. QUOTANNIS. ROSAS. AD. MONUMENTUNI. EJUS. DEFFERANT." " Wind gentle evergreen to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid. Sweet Ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine ; Thus will thy lasting... | |
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Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays... 
