Thamyris : Thracian poet singer, rival of Apollo in love for the beautiful youth Hyacinthus. Apollo told the Muses that Thamyris boasted he could surpass them in song. They deprived him of his voice & blinded him.
... power of the rhythm in which they are carried lifts all to the poetic level. Take one of the passages I have quoted from Milton, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues... Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old,* here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all... or almost always that echo there: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, 12 or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, 13 or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. 14 Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for ...
... is always or almost always that echo there: Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old... Milton's lines might at first sight be taken because of a certain depth of emotion in their large lingering rhythm ...
... citing again the opening lines of Paradise Lost, Sri Aurobindo wants us to consider as an instance, Page 104 On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then Sri Aurobindo goes on: "Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental ...
... together the names of four ancient personages, all famous but all blind like himself, and the first two of them poets whose fame he would wish to equal as he has equalled their fate: Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. 3 Page 41 After naming these men, he continues what he started saying with "Nightly I visit": Then ...
... accompanied by the power of the rhythm in which they are carried lifts all to the poetic level. Take one of the passages from Milton: On evil days though fall'n and evil tongues ... Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all lies ...
... there is always or almost always that echo there: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree or On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old. Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the ...
... of the rhythm in which they are carried lifts all to the poetic level. Take one of the passages I have quoted from Milton, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues ... or Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old, here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all lies ...
... back - a defect luckily gone now - I can well understand your greater predicament. Although one may pride oneself on being in the august company of Milton in his fifties no less than of Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old, or on receiving the same stroke of adverse fate as that superman of music, the aged Beethoven, it is surely preferable to be less ...
... almost always that echo there: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides Page 61 And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old.... Milton's lines might at first sight be taken because of a certain depth of emotion in their large lingering ...
... 117. Page 236 the opening lines of Paradise Lost, Sri Aurobindo wants us to consider as an instance, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then Sri Aurobindo goes on: "Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as ...
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