Opis: Neptune's Isle and Other Plays for Children (Classic Reprint) - Chapman John Jay

Excerpt from Neptune's Isle and Other Plays for Children

King. (To Leon.)

Deliver all these letters to my friends,
Thy hosts in the Ionian lands of Greece.
That you will thrive I know: there is some gift
That makes men love thee, in thy countenance,
And they receive thee as a deity.

Leon

Perhaps because they know I am a prince.

King

Enough of that, - a bookish contemplation.
Youth feeds upon imaginary facts.
You'd be a closet Plato: you in ink
Would drown the hope of a just-peeping mind.

Leon

I thought myself contented with Troezene,
And with the daily brightness of the fields, -
My books to sweeten statecraft, and my heart
Bent on the bettering of all my folk.
So thought I to live out a useful day
Sunny and unambitious. But I know
My thoughts are immature.

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Szczegóły: Neptune's Isle and Other Plays for Children (Classic Reprint) - Chapman John Jay

Nazwa: Neptune's Isle and Other Plays for Children (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Chapman John Jay
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330591659
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 206
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Neptune's Isle and Other Plays for Children (Classic Reprint) - Chapman John Jay