489 examples of narcissus in sentences

To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear, 5 Nor to himself Narcissus, as to both Thou, Adonais; wan they stand and sere Amid the faint companions of their youth, With dew all turned to tears,odour, to sighing ruth.

Echo is, in mythology, a Nymph who was in love with Narcissus.

11. 5-7. To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear, Nor to himself Narcissus, as to both Thou, Adonais; wan they stand and sere, &c.

The passage of Shelley is rather complicated in its significance, because it mixes up the personages Hyacinthus and Narcissus with the flowers hyacinth and narcissus.

The passage of Shelley is rather complicated in its significance, because it mixes up the personages Hyacinthus and Narcissus with the flowers hyacinth and narcissus.

The beautiful youth Narcissus, contemplating himself in a streamlet, became enamoured of his own face; and pining away, was converted into the flower narcissus.

The beautiful youth Narcissus, contemplating himself in a streamlet, became enamoured of his own face; and pining away, was converted into the flower narcissus.

This accounts for the lines, 'To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear, nor to himself Narcissus.'

we have to do, no longer with the youths Hyacinthus and Narcissus, but with the flowers hyacinth and narcissus: it is the flowers which (according to Shelley) loved Adonais better than the youths were loved, the one by Phoebus and the other by himself.

we have to do, no longer with the youths Hyacinthus and Narcissus, but with the flowers hyacinth and narcissus: it is the flowers which (according to Shelley) loved Adonais better than the youths were loved, the one by Phoebus and the other by himself.

It may perhaps be held that the transition from the youths to the flowers, and from the emotions of Phoebus and of Narcissus to those assigned to the flowers, is not very happily managed by Shelley: it is artificial, and not free from confusion.

The faint companions of the youth of the hyacinth and the narcissus must be other flowers, such as Spring had thrown down.

The dew upon the hyacinth and narcissus is converted into tears: they exhale sighs, instead of fragrance.

Here we had a fine view of the valley below, and passed fields covered with oxslips, cowslips, and other flowers; while lower down, meadow after meadow was whitened by the lovely wild narcissus.

We returned by a short cut through the fields on the left and the garden of the Villa Russe, whose owner, "charmant et gentil," not only showed us all over, but very kindly invited us to a strawberry feast a month hencewhich sorrowfully we had to declineas well as making us free of his garden and fields, the latter being filled with the sweet-scented narcissus.

He lives yet, but he dies!" Narcissus said.

He tried to kill Narcissus, because Narcissus was the nearest to him.

He tried to kill Narcissus, because Narcissus was the nearest to him.

He did not see the choking wretch whose wrist Narcissus twisted, until he struck at Narcissus again and, trying to follow him, stumbled over the assassin.

Where is Narcissus?" "I don't know," said Galen.

"Narcissus is another who will do well to protect himself.

His was the soul, once pent in English clay, Whereby ungrateful England seemed to hold The sweet Narcissus, parted from his stream, Endymion, not unmindful of his dream, Like a weak bird the flock has left behind.

For lacking it, they cannot lyfe sustayne; And having it, they gaze on it the more, In their amazement lyke Narcissus vaine, Whose eyes him starv'd: so plenty makes me poore.

Narcissus; a Belgian legend of Van Dyck.

The Misses Narcissus.

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