 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...hand, Touch'd his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. She was a goddess of the infant world ; By her in...Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian spmnx. Pedestal' d haply in a palace court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...kindred hand Touched his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in...Achilles by the hair and bent his neck ; Or with a finger stayed Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx, Pedestal'd haply in a palace-court,... | |
 | Robert Hunt - Folklore - 1881 - 512 pages
...Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height." Everything they have left us informs us that they were men who " Would have ta'en Achilles by the hair, and bent his neck, Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel." t With these evidences, who then dares say that the Samotheans, who, under the reign of Bardus, people... | |
 | John Keats - 1882 - 440 pages
...kindred hand Touch'd his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. She was a Goddess of the infant world; By her in stature...as that of Memphian sphinx, Pedestal'd haply in a palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face :... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 420 pages
...kindred hand Touch'd his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence though to one who knew it not. She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in...Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian Sphynx, Pedestall'd haply in a palace-court, Where sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But, oh !... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 364 pages
...kindred hand Touch 'd his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence though to one who knew it not She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in...Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian Sphynx, Pedestall'd haply in a palace-court, Where sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But, oh !... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...kindred hand Touched his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. She was a goddess of the infant world ; By her in...by the hair, and bent his neck ; Or with a finger stayed Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Mcmphian sphinx, Pedestaled haply in a palace court,... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 310 pages
...kindred hand Touch'd his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. She was a Goddess of the infant world; By her in stature...as that of Memphian sphinx, Pedestal'd haply in a palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face :... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 608 pages
...hand Touch'd his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. 25 She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in...his neck ; Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel. 30 Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx, Pedestal'd haply in a palace court, When sages look'd... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...kindred hand Touched his wide shoulders, after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in...Achilles by the hair and bent his neck ; Or with a finger stayed Ixion's wheel. Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx, Pedestal'd haply in a palace-court,... | |
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She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height: she would have ta'en Achilles by the hair and bent his neck ; Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel. 
