| 1893 - 846 pages
...were yesterday when we sat and read together : — They told me, Heracleitus, they told me tlion wert dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. The volume of verse, the lirst which he published, given to me with his own hand, lies before me now.... | |
| William Johnson Cory - 1858 - 128 pages
...But oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. El7T« TIC) Hpa/cAtJTS, T6OV fUtntiv. THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1910 - 914 pages
...same bird which they listened to. We have it in the epitaph of Callimachus, in Cory's translation : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed ; I wept when I remembered how often yon and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And... | |
| Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...¿ffi Х£*Ра ßaXei. Callimachus. Tjp. JB quanta minus est cum aliis versari quam tui meminisse. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...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... | |
| Sertum - 1869 - 114 pages
...the accusative of the object. 192- This is translated in * Ionica' : — " They told me, Heraclitas, 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... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1892 - 996 pages
...Cory's imitation of the elegiacs of Callimachus on his friend Heracleitus: They told me, Heracleitus, 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. TURNING from... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Greek poetry - 1873 - 444 pages
...grace of movement and a tenderness of pathos that are unsurpassed : * * "They told me, Heracleitus, 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... | |
| Music - 1891 - 890 pages
...point, and we make no excuse for quoting the admirable version of it which appears in " Iónica " : — They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...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. But now that... | |
| Edmund Gosse - English essays - 1891 - 360 pages
...hearing the news that the poet Heraclitus — not to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...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. dnd now that... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1909 - 582 pages
...is William Johnson's translation of the famous epigram of Callimachus : They told me, Heracleitus, 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... | |
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