 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
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1911 - 632 pages
...beautiful in our language ; but who does not know those lines beginning : ' They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed . . .'? Tom Moore's paraphrase of the lines on Anacreon by Antipater of Sidon is full of poetry. But... | |
 | 1911 - 202 pages
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 | Maude Morrison Frank - 1911 - 216 pages
...soul's strength on. 15 A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one. 16 They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. 17 Day after day the labor's to be done. 18 It is time to be old, To take in sail. 19 No offering of... | |
 | Ernest William Hornung - 1912 - 392 pages
...cap-trimming. Carpenter had scarcely opened his when he exclaimed, "Here's an old friend!" and read out: "They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky." " Rather an old enemy, that, " said Jan, grinning. " Then, my good fellow, you're incapable of appreciating... | |
 | Morley Roberts - 1912 - 328 pages
...recollect those lines of Callimachus to Heracleitus in Corey's " lonica " : " They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky." CHAPTER IV IN the last chapter I quoted from Boswell, always a favourite of Maitland's, as he is of... | |
 | Morley Roberts - 1912 - 328 pages
...recollect those lines of Callimachus to Heracleitus in Corey's "lonica": "They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky." CHAPTER IV IN the last chapter I quoted from Boswell, always a favourite of Maitland's, as he is of... | |
 | Ernest William Hornung - 1912 - 392 pages
...scarcely opened his when he exclaimed, "Here's an old friend!" and read out: "They told me, Hersclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky." "Rather an old enemy, that," said Jan, grinning. "Then, my good fellow, you're incapable of appreciating... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1912 - 1104 pages
...laws of time and space decay. But O, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. Heraclitus '"THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were...They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears 10 shed. I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - 1912 - 662 pages
...text, so that the reasons for the judgment passed in the Journal may be intelligible, if unpardonable : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears I shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - 1912 - 620 pages
...text, so that the reasons for the judgment passed in the Journal may be intelligible, if unpardonable : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears I shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down... | |
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