 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 sidor
...that it might be a secure resting-place for his beloved. Byron alludes to Delos in his Don Juan: The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! Where burning...arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprang! CHAPTER 5 Phaeton Phaeton was the son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene. One day a schoolfellow... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sidor
...that were. LORD BYRON (1 788-1 824), English poet. Chitde Harold's Pilgrimage, clo. 2, st. 2. 3 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace. Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet. But all, except their sun, is set.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 sidor
...In Italy he 'd ape the " Trecentist! ; " In Greece, he 'd sing some sort of hymn like this V ye: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set... | |
 | M. L. West - 1992 - 452 sidor
...that all or almost all Sappho's poems 'were recited by herself informally to her companions'.1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and recited'? In that generally admirable volume The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986) we look... | |
 | Austin L. Sorenson - 1994 - 268 sidor
...in that land, wrote: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where grew the arts of war and peace; Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, made this solemn prediction: Greece will be strong and a match... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 sidor
...as I lived, and love as I have loved; To dust if I return, from dust I sprung, X The Isles of Greece 1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where...war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! 5 Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2 The Scian and the Teian muse,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sidor
...NEW TESTAMENT, St. Paul, in Titus, 1:12. Cited by Paul, this remark is attributed to Epimenides. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.... | |
 | Ellis Amburn - 1999 - 468 sidor
...neighborhood. He chose Byron's salute to Greece's lesbian poet laureate, Sappho, and declaimed, " 'The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.' " Charles Jarvis was present that night, and recalled that the boys began to heckle Sammy, one yelling... | |
 | JOEL COOK - 1910 - 756 sidor
...aettos—Pentelikon—-Pikermi—Marathon—JEgina—The Oros—Laurion— Sunion—Cape Colonna. THE IONIAN ISLES. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 4 THE MEDITERRANEAN Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal... | |
 | Ellen Greene - 1996 - 276 sidor
...attitude to it is hostile. 87. Cf. Kirkwood, Early Creek Monody 148-49. Byron's famous lines, "The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung" (Donjuán 3.86.1), supplied the title for West's important article. TWO Sappho's Afterlife in Translation... | |
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The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 
