10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIOBEAN»
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Niobean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Niobean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fantastic Crosswords to Keep You Sharp
... in Le Havre 20 Call to mind 22 Subatomic particle 23 Buck follower 24 Lifer, for
example 27 Odorless gas 28 Niobean drop 29 Actor Bisoglio 32 Reed and
Harrison 33 Pre-1917 Russian rulers 34 Silkworm 35 Planets 36 Regal wrap 37
First ...
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Swinburne and His Gods: The Roots and Growth of an Agnostic ...
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell, And chill the solemn earth, a fatal
mother, With sadder than the Niobean womb, And in the hollow of her breasts a
tomb. Content thee, howsoe'er, whose days are done; There lies not any
troublous ...
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Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy
“The Dying Niobean” is supine, his trunk and torso supported by the sculpted
pedestal, his legs extended and slowly coming to rest on the (imagined) earth.
The youth's head is stretched back and down, his right arm obscuring the face.
Jost Hermand, Gerhard Richter, 2006
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A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the ...
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell, And chill the solemn earth, a fatal
mother, With sadder than the Niobean womb, And in the hollow of her breasts a
tomb. (Poems 3: 57) But when Swinburne composed this elegy, Baudelaire was
still ...
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Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters
It was about a false prospect in late winter, spurious intimations of spring that
nonetheless seemed real: “After weeks, it may be, of shrewd and biting frost or
cold, Niobean rains, or, perchance, some monstrous siege of winds like famished
...
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Classical Echoes in Tennyson
head of blue Olympus." The phrase in ' The Princess,' iv. 352, "a Niobean
daughter," is a very old Grecism; cp. Hom. II. xiii. 67, TAm/Urn* vl6»; Soph. Aj. 134
; Theocr. xv. 110; Virg. Aen. iii. 488 ; etc. In ' In Memoriam/ xcviii, " any mother
town," ...
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Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne ...
XVIII For thee, Onowasilentsoul, my brother, Take atmyhandsthisgarland, and
farewell. Thin istheleaf, andchill thewintry smell, And chillthe solemn earth,afatal
mother, With sadderthan the Niobean womb, And inthehollow of her
breastsatomb.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, 2013
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The Complete Works of George Meredith
Voicelessly the forest Virgin Vanished! but one look she gave - Keen as Niobean
arrow Thro' the maiden's heart it drave. Thus toward that throning bosom Where
all earth is warmed,—each spot Nourished with autumnal blessings.
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The Frogs of Aristophanes: With Notes and Critical and ...
Assigning a rpcxpbs to each of the Niobean children, (and as we are dealing with
a royal race, we cannot assign less,) we get for the first drama a mixed chorus of
fourteen persons, half men and half women ; and a chorus so composed would ...
Aristophanes, Thomas Mitchell, 1839
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The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt ...
... were as follows:– (1) When Mrs. Inglis in my room at Montreal heard my
sausages frying, as she thought, too furiously in the kitchen, she left me hurriedly
with a glance, and the folds of her dress as she swept out of the room were
Niobean.
