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At least it is impossible to doubt his attachment to the land of his childhood, and it is at worst a welcome dream when we imagine him, as the evening of life drew on, leaving the formal gardens and painted landscapes of Alexandria and returning to Syracuse and his beloved Sicily once more. The verse of Theocritus was echoed by his younger contemporaries, Bion and Moschus.
Alexander turned his back indignantly on the chamberlain, and he became so absorbed in wondering how it was possible that the emperor, who was cultivated and appreciated what was beautiful, could have dragged out of the dust and kept near him two such miserable 'creatures as Theocritus and this old man, that Philostratus, who met him in the next room, had almost to shout at him.
Where the road dipped there was a group of ilex trees, and it was in their shade that I kissed Doris, and the beauty of the trees helps me to appreciate the sentiment of those kisses. And I remember that road and those ilex trees as I might remember a passage in Theocritus.
Jonson, it would appear, consciously adopted the pastoral method, if hardly the pastoral mood, of Theocritus, in contradistinction to that of the courtly poets in Italy.
Let Greek, without fail, share some part of every day; I do not mean the Greek poets, the catches of Anacreon, or the tender complaints of Theocritus, or even the porter-like language of Homer's heroes; of whom all smatterers in Greek know a little, quote often, and talk of always; but I mean Plato, Aristoteles, Demosthenes, and Thucydides, whom none but adepts know.
The heads of the town are waiting outside; they must give up their palaces to the bodyguard; if they murmur, let them try for themselves how they like sleeping on the soaking ground under dripping tents. It may cool their hot blood, and perhaps dilute the salt of their wit. Show them in, Theocritus."
Titianus falls before the dancer Theocritus, the noble Papinian before the murderer Caracalla, our splendid Alexander before such a wretch as Zminis; and divine reason lets it all happen, and allows human reason to proclaim the law. Happiness is for fools and knaves; for those who cherish and uphold reason ay, reason, which is a part of the divinity persecution, misery, and despair." "Have done!"
It seems that I have through enchantment passed, And lived and loved in that fair court of old. "Yes, yes, I know The old Greek idylls about which you rave, Theocritus and his melodious flow Of verse, and all that Moschus sang o'er Bion's grave. "You've shown me oft How far superior all that they have said That Tennyson has learned to soar aloft By seeking inspiration from the greater dead.
Heinrich Scham, in his charming little pamphlet Nackende Menschen, describes the consternation of the commercial people at such ideas: "'What will become of us, cried the tailors, 'if you go naked? "And all the lot of them, hat, cravat, shirt, and shoemakers joined in the chorus. "'AND WHERE SHALL I CARRY MY MONEY? cried one who had just been made a director." See Theocritus, Idyll xviii.
Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese . This is a noble and inspiring book of love poems; and Stedman regards the opening sonnet, "I thought once how Theocritus had sung," as equal to any in our language. For fifteen years the Brownings lived an ideally happy life at Pisa, and at Casa Guidi, Florence, sharing the same poetical ambitions. And love was the greatest thing in the world,
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