 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 296 ページ
...fragment. I shall, in the last place, present my reader with the English translation. Blest as tb' immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. 'Twas this depriv'd my soul of rest, And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 ページ
...this famous fragment. I shall, in the last place, present my •reader with the English translation. Blest as th' immortal gods is he, The youth who 'fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. 'Twas this depriv'd my soul of re*t, And... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 ページ
...fragment. I shall, in the last place, present my reader with the English translation. I. ' Blest as the immortal gods is he, * The youth who fondly sits by thee, ' And hears and sees thee all the while ' Softly speak and sweetly smile. II. ' "Twas this depriv'd my soul of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 ページ
...fragment. I shall in the last place present my reader with the English translation. I. Blest as tli' immortal Gods is he. The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. • II. 'Twas this deprivM my soul of rest,... | |
 | Andrew Duncan - 1813 - 154 ページ
...stone marks the turf where his mortal part was deposited. A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO. BY AMBROSE PHILLIPS. I. BLEST as th' immortal gods is he The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. II. 'Twas this depriv'd my soul of rest,... | |
 | 1814 - 636 ページ
...impassioned as thai which Sappho expressed for her fair liictul to whom she inscribed that inimitable ode, " Blest as th* immortal gods is he The youth who fondly sits by thee," &c. It was necessary, therefore, to apply for information OB the subject of this language to females... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 ページ
...he freeze, he soon shall burn, And be thy victim in his turij.. A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO. BLESS'D as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak, and sweetly smile. 'Twas this depriv'd my soul of rest, And... | |
 | Charles Paul Landon - 1821 - 308 ページ
...a translation of one of those celebrated pieces , by one of our English poets , is here presented : BLEST as th' immortal Gods is he , The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak , and sweetly smile. • 'Twas this deprived my soul of rest... | |
 | 1822 - 418 ページ
...God into his oozy bed, And, with the night, the hero's slumber fled. ODE FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO. BLEST as th' immortal Gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speak, and sweetly smile. 'Twas this depriv'd my soul of rest.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 334 ページ
...authority of so good a judge, besides what the reader will find observed with regard to Mr. Philips's mistaking the true sense of his author, the three first lines are amazingly rough and awkward. Bless'd as the' immortal gods is he. The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all... | |
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Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile. 
