Oh, our yEschylus, the thunderous, How he drove the bolted breath Through the cloud, to wedge it ponderous In the gnarled oak beneath ! Oh, our Sophocles, the royal, Who was born to monarch's place, And who made the whole world loyal, Less by kingly power... Poems - Página 305por Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1887 - 315 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - 1881 - 364 páginas
...he drove the bolted breath Through the cloud, to wedge it ponderous In the gnarle'd oak beneath. " Oh, our Sophocles, the royal, Who was born to monarch's...the human, With his droppings of warm tears, And his tonches of things common Till they rose to tonch the spheres." — Mrs. Browning in " Wine of Ct/prue."... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 páginas
...Euripides which makes him so modern and so akin, to our poet. When Browning refers to the Greek as " Our Euripides the human, with his droppings of warm...things common, till they rose to touch the spheres," ' he is describing himself. He has looked into the eyes of the great Greek and has seen his own reflection.... | |
| Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 páginas
...Euripides which makes him so modern and so akin to our poet. When Browning refers to the Greek as " Our Euripides the human, with his droppings of warm...things common, till they rose to touch the spheres," ' he is describing himself. He has looked into the eyes of the great Greek and has seen his own reflection.... | |
| Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - 1881 - 366 páginas
...ponderous In the gnarlfid oak beneath. " Oh, our Sophoeles, the royal. Who was born to monareh's plaee, And who made the whole world loyal Less by kingly power than graee. " Our Euripides, the human. With his droppings of warm tears, And his touehes of things eommon... | |
| 1882 - 686 páginas
...How he drove the bolted breath Through the cloud, to wedge it ponderous In the gnarled oak beneath. Oh. our Sophocles, the royal, Who was born to monarch's...things common, Till they rose to touch the spheres ! Sophocles grew up among just the influences best adapted to develop his genius — a time of great... | |
| Euripides - 1882 - 158 páginas
...toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing jn the high-ways and the byeways of everyday life. We may everywhere see ' Our Euripides the human With his droppings of warm...things common Till they rose to touch the spheres'. * Xen. Anab. i. 2. 9. ' His object was to excite interest, not by distant grandeur like Aeschylus,... | |
| Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - 1883 - 704 páginas
...How ho drove the bolted breath Through thu clmld, to wedge it ponderous In the gnarled oak beneath. " Oh, our Sophocles, the royal, Who was born to monarch's...world loyal Less by kingly power than grace. " Our Kurlpides. the human, With his droppings of warm tears, And his touches of things common Till they... | |
| John Milton - 1883 - 80 páginas
...selection, and then with antidote to the possible poison they may contain. 1. 17. Household matters. "Euripides the human With his droppings of warm tears,...things common, Till they rose to touch the spheres." 1. 19. Politicks, from the ordering of the house, we rise to ordering the state. 1. 24. Counsellers.... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1884 - 560 páginas
...How he drove the bolted breath Through the cloud, to wedge it ponderous In the gnarled oak beneath ! Oh, our Sophocles, the royal, Who was born to monarch's...! — These were cup-bearers undying, Of the wine that 's meant for souls. . And my Plato, the divine one, If men knew the gods aright By their motions... | |
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