The Attic warbler pours her throat
Responsive to the cuckoo's note. |
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole: The mellow glory of the Attic stage; Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Matthew ArnoldThe Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.
thomas grayOur fathers have, in process of centuries, provided this realm, its colonies and wide dependencies, with a speech as malleable and pliant as Attic, dignified as Latin, masculine, yet free of Teutonic guttural, capable of being precise as French, dulcet as Italian, sonorous as Spanish, and captaining all these excellences to its service.
Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even “at least not systematic”; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.
Randall Jarrell[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even “at least not systematic”; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.
Randall JarrellSee there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
john miltonAttic honey thickens the nectar-like Falernian. Such drink deserves to be mixed by Ganymede.
What is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek?
A man should keep his little brain Attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWhat’s thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the Attic for any little trinket you hadn’t known was there.
james richardsonI'm convinced there's a small room in the Attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
peter ustinov