 | William Bodham Donne - 1872 - Страниц: 224
...among dead heroes : — " Renowned Ulysses, think not death a theme Of consolation : I had rather live, The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily himself sustained, Than sovereign empire hold o'er all the Shades." t There may be an approach to comedy in... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - 1872 - Страниц: 224
...among dead heroes : — " Renowned Ulysses, think not death a theme Of consolation : I had rather live, The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily himself sustained, Than sovereign empire hold o'er all the Shades." t _/ There may be an approach to comedy... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1889 - Страниц: 566
...; there is indeed absolution, but absolution that is ignorant of hope and joy : ll had rather live 'The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread 'Of some man scantily himself sustained, 'Than sovereign empire hold o'er all the shades1. (Od. xi. 4S9-491, Cowper's Translation.)... | |
 | Plato - 1901 - Страниц: 476
...indeed, said he. Beginning then, said I, at this verse, we will omit all such as these: I had rather live The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily, himself sustained, Than sovereign empire hold o'er all the shades; And this — And — Lest Neptune o'er his... | |
 | John Keble - 1912 - Страниц: 444
...from his ideal state : Renown'd Ulysses ! think not death a theme Of consolation ; I had rather live The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily himself sustain 'd, Than sovereign empire hold o'er all the shades.1 But this is so trite and commonplace that... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - Страниц: 850
...shade of Achilles in the above-quoted passage from the Odyssey, as follows : — " I had rather live, The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily himself sustained, Than sovereign empire hold o'er all the Shades." Cf. Heine : •• Der Pelide sprach mit... | |
 | John Sebastian Marlow Ward, William George Stirling - 1926 - Страниц: 260
...seemed to grieve over their earthly past. The Ghost of Achilles bluntly said : — "I had rather live The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily himself sustained Than Sovereign Empire hold o'er all the Shades" a)1 The chief anxiety of the dead was to... | |
 | Kingsley Bolton, Christopher Hutton - 2000 - Страниц: 696
...seemed to grieve over their earthly past. The Ghost of Achilles bluntly said : — "I had rather live The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily himself sustained Than Sovereign Empire hold o'er all the Shades" 0>1 The chief anxiety of the dead was to... | |
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Ulysses ! think not death a theme Of consolation ; I had rather live The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily himself sustain'd, Than sovereign empire hold o'er all the shades. 
