 | Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1910 - 352 σελίδες
...inscription like a beautiful antique one that I am fond of, but which is probably not so familiar to you: " Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And...the cave, And drink in silence or in silence lave ! " I knew I ought to make some response ; but I was tongue-tied and awkward, and could think of nothing.... | |
 | Paul Wilstach - 1925 - 334 σελίδες
...temple an ^Eolian harp . . . form a couch of moss . . . the English inscription will then be proper 'Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And...cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave!' " As for the grounds in general his dream would be: "Keep it in deer, rabbits, peacocks, guinea poultry,... | |
 | Elizabeth Hatcher Sadler - 1926 - 50 σελίδες
...will be better placed in this. Form a couch of moss. The English inscription will then be better : Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And to the murmur of these waters sleep. Ahl spare my slumbers; gently tread the cave, And drink in silence or in silence lave." Many high ladies... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1892 - 976 σελίδες
...couch of moss. The English inscription will be then proper. Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I And to the murmur of these waters sleep: Ah! spare my slumbers! gently tread the keep, cave! And drink in silence lave I THE GROUND IN GENERAL. Thin the trees, cut out stumps and undergrowth,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 σελίδες
...the source of the Loiret; hence the pun in l. 6. Inscription [written 1725; published, Letters, 1735] Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep, And...the Cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave ! A version of a popular Latin epigram. Hujus Nympha loci, sacri custodia fontis Dormio, dum blandce... | |
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - 1988 - 286 σελίδες
...in the morning through back-lit mist rising off the water. These lines by Pope are inscribed nearby: Nymph of the Grot these sacred springs I keep And to the murmur of these waters sleep; Ah! Spare thy slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence or in silence lave. The arrangement of the... | |
 | Jack Mclaughlin - 1990 - 496 σελίδες
...rhymed couplets, had freely transferred the nymph from her Latin fontis to the poet's garden grotto: Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And...the cave! And drink in silence, or in silence lave! The lines from Pope and the description of the proposed grotto make it clear that Jefferson's imaginative... | |
 | Jean Michel Massing, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Luís de Albuquerque, Jonathan Brown, J. J. Martín González, Richard Kagan, Ezio Bassani, J. Michael Rogers, Julian Raby, David Woodward, Francis Maddison, Martin Kemp, Giulio Carlo Argan, Martin Collcutt, Sherman E. Lee, Gari Ledyard, F. W. Mote, Stuart Cary Welch, Michael D. Coe, Miguel León-Portilla, Irving Rouse, José Juan Arrom, Craig Morris, James E. Brown, Warwick Bray, J. H. Elliott - 1991 - 684 σελίδες
...beautiful fountain above the banks of the Danube." In Alexander Pope's picturesque translation it reads: Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, And to the murmur of these waters sleep. "fOKTlS NYMTWycW «*f NVrt Ml RWPl OVUM O • The marked emphasis on the doll-like delicacy and the... | |
 | Peggy Muñoz Simonds - 1992 - 412 σελίδες
...sive bibas, sive lavere taces" (357). This verse was later translated by Alexander Pope as follows: "Nymph of the Grot, these sacred springs I keep /...cave! / And drink in Silence or in silence lave!" (365). I am grateful to Mary D. Garrard for calling my attention to this and related essays on the... | |
 | George L. Hersey - 1993 - 320 σελίδες
...of the Vatican work, accompanied by Alexander Pope's translation of a fifteenthcentury Latin poem: Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep; And...the Cave! And drink in Silence, or in Silence lave. So even as a nameless nymph the statue is filled with funeral imagery. The conceit of the young woman... | |
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Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave. 
