...SOPHOCLES. And yet this deathless trio — three such redoubted names as these, the grand old masters," the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," to what a towering eminence have they culminated HOMER, not only the Poet, who, transcendently " triumphant...

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...sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Bead from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his...

...to him, in delicious numbers, all the loftiest conceptions of genius, from " The grand old masters, The bards sublime ; Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time." Not only as conservators of the past, are books to be prized; they are also an ever-enduring source...

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...sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his...

...Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this restless fesling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards sublime, AYhoee distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial...