Letters to Dead AuthorsC. Scribner's sons, 1893 - 253 страница |
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Страница 197 - But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil ; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of providence...
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Страница 198 - What joy there is in these songs ! what delight of life, what an exquisite Hellenic grace of art, what a manly nature to endure, what tenderness and constancy of friendship, what a sense of all that is fair in the glittering stream, the music of the waterfall, the hum of bees, the silvery gray of the olive woods on the hillside ! How human are all your verses, Horace ! what a pleasure is yours in the straining poplars, swaying in the wind! what gladness you gain from the white crest of Soracte, beheld...
Страница 80 - And gie to us the cheerfu' burn That steals into its valley fair — The streamlets that at ilka turn Sae saftly meet an mingle there. cauldrife, chilly creel, basket The lanesome Talla and the Lyne, An' Manor wi' its mountain rills, An' Etterick, whose waters twine Wi' Yarrow frae the Forest hills ; An' Gala too, and Teviot bright, An' mony a stream o' playfu' speed ; Their kindred valleys a' unite Amang the braes o