 No proud one ! no jewelled circlet flaming through Heaven above the height of the unmerited throne, only some few leaves of wild olive, cool to the tired brow, through a few years of peace.  Classical Philology - Page 4941911Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 978 pages
...so. They knew that life brought its contest, but they expected from it also the crown of all contest. No proud one! No jewelled circlet flaming through...the height of the unmerited throne; only some few Ь-aves of wild olive, cool to the tired brow, through a few years of •peace. It should have been... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pages
...so. They knew that life brought its contest, but they expected from it also the crown of all contest. No proud one ; no jewelled circlet flaming through...above the height of the unmerited throne ; only some fenleaves of wild olive, cool to the tired brow, through a few years of peace. "It should have been... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1895 - 818 pages
...conscious Hellenic pride. " No proud one," says Euskin, "no jewelled circlet flaming through heaven — only some few leaves of wild olive, cool to the tired brow — type of gray honor and sweet rest. " And here lies the chief, if somewhat obvious, lesson that... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English language - 1896 - 306 pages
...They knew that life brought its 25 contest, but they expected from it also the crown of all contest : No proud one ! no jewelled circlet flaming through...olive, cool to the tired brow, through a few years thought; but Jupiter was poor; this was the best the god could give them. Seeking a better than this,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English language - 1896 - 304 pages
...that life brought its-/i; 25 contest, but they expected from it also the crown''" of all contest : No proud one ! no jewelled circlet flaming through Heaven above the height of the.unmerited throne; only..some few leaves of wilds'?. oliyje^ cool to the tired brow, through a few... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 pages
...so. They knew that life brought its contest, but they expected from it also the crown of all contest. No proud one ! no jewelled circlet flaming through...cool to the tired brow, through a few years of peace. _ It should have been of gold, they thought ; but Jupiter was poor; this was the best the god could... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1907 - 296 pages
...They knew that life brought its contest, but they expected from it also the crown of all contest : No proud one ! no jewelled circlet flaming through Heaven above the height of the unmerited throne j only some few leaves of wild olive, cool to the tired brow, through a few years of peace. It should... | |
 | Richard Winn Livingstone - Greece - 1912 - 258 pages
...jewelled circlet naming through 1 Ar. Khet. 136ob, 14. ' Quoted in Lewes, Life of Goethe, bk. vi. c. 2. heaven above the height of the unmerited throne ;...cool to the tired brow, through a few years of peace. The wreath was to be of wild olive, mark you ; — the tree that grows carelessly, tufting the rocks... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 372 pages
...They knew _that life brought its contest, but they expected frornit also the crown of all contest: no proud one! no jewelled circlet flaming through...leaves of wild olive, cool to the tired brow, through a lew years ot peace. It should have been of gold, they thought; but Jupiter was poor; this was the best... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 376 pages
...so. They knew that life brought its contest, but they expected from it also the crown of all contest: no proud one! no jewelled circlet flaming through...unmerited throne; only some few leaves of wild olive) cool fro ttlf,tired hrow, through a few years of peace. It should have been of gold, they thought; but Jupiter... | |
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