 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...  Recitations at Whitnash rectory - Page 11by Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 15 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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.... | |
 | 1938 - 568 pages
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 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 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... | |
 | 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...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 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...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 pages
...given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover. HERACLITUS BY WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...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 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...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 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...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 pages
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