 THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky...  Shelburne Essays: 5th series - Seite 18von Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1893 - 846 Seiten
...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 Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 914 Seiten
...listened to. We have it in the epitaph of Callimachus, in Cory's translation : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me 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... | |
 | Sertum - 1869 - 114 Seiten
...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...with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou.art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 Seiten
...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...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. TURNING from Semitic literature to the Aryan And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian in its... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 Seiten
...to life thou might'st him yet recover. HERACLITUS BY WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. Potatoes dug... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1909 - 582 Seiten
...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...art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake ; For Death,... | |
 | 1891 - 890 Seiten
...for quoting the admirable version of it which appears in " Iónica " : — They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. But now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 360 Seiten
...poet Heraclitus — not to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. dnd now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, e/f handful of grey ashes, long long ago at... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 388 Seiten
...to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you mere dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 376 Seiten
...imitation of the elegiacs of Callimachus on his friend Heracleitus : — " They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead, — They brought me bitter...art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake, For Death... | |
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