36 examples of syrinx in sentences

After a little, shaggy, big-thewed ventripotent Pan will grow jealous, and ravish you away from me, as he stole Syrinx from her lover.

We may, too, compare the story of Daphne and Syrinx, who, when they could no longer elude the pursuit of Apollo and Pan, change themselves into a laurel and a reed.

Swale, iii. Sylla, i. Sylvanus, i. Sylvius, ii. Syrinx, iv. Talus, iii.

In an eddy in the seething crowd was a placid-faced Aymara, bedecked in the most tawdry manner with gewgaws from Birmingham or Manchester, sedately playing a melancholy tune on a rustic syrinx or Pan's pipe, charmingly made from little tubes of bamboo from eastern Bolivia.

He had sent Lamb William Warner's Syrinx; or, A Sevenfold History, 1597.

his dedication to Lamb his gift of Syrinx and "Faust" Aitken, John.

His lack of personal charm was the origin of the invention of Pan's pipes or syrinx.

Miss Syrinx of the Naiad familyone of the first families of Arcadiawas so horrified when Pan proposed to her, that she fled.

2 While Pan and fair Syrinx are fled from our shore, The Graces are banish'd, and Love is no more: The soft god of pleasure, that warm'd our desires, Has broken his bow, and extinguish'd his fires; And vows that himself and his mother will mourn, Till Pan and fair Syrinx in triumph return.

Not without meaning has myth endowed woman with the power of metamorphosis, to change at will like the maidens in the legend into wild white swans, or like Syrinx, fleeing from the too ardent pursuit of Pan, into a flowering reed, or like Lamia, into a jewelled serpent Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; And full of silver moons.

Alston says that the "Cassia lignea of the ancients was the larger branches of the cinnamon tree, cut off with their bark and sent together to the druggists; their Cassia fistula, or Syrinx, was the same cinnamon in the bark only;" but Ruæus says that it also sometimes denoted the lavender, and sometimes the rosemary.

[Footnote 3: The 'Syrinx' of Theocritus consists of twenty verses, so arranged that the length of each pair is less than that of the pair before, and the whole resembles the ten reeds of the mouth organ or Pan pipes ([Greek: syrigx]).

Honeycomb 410 Syllogisms 239 Syrinx of Theocritus, the 58 (Fn. 3)

Pan and Syrinx; an Opera of one act, performed on the Theatre in Little Lincoln's Inn-Fields, 1717.

The other writer is William Warner, well known from his Albion's England, published in 1586, who left a work entitled Pan his Syrinx, which appeared in 1584; but in this pastoralism does not penetrate beyond the title-page.

He has been sent by Pan to fetch fruits for the entertainment of 'His paramour the Syrinx bright.'

From the stony Maenalus Bring your Flocks, and live with us; Here ye shall have greater grace To serve the Lady of this place, Though Syrinx your Pans Mistres were, Yet Syrinx well might wait on her.

From the stony Maenalus Bring your Flocks, and live with us; Here ye shall have greater grace To serve the Lady of this place, Though Syrinx your Pans Mistres were, Yet Syrinx well might wait on her.

The metamorphosis is related by Pan himself, who returns bearing in his hand a reed, all that is left of his beloved Syrinx.

Through yon same bending plain That flings his arms down to the main, And through these thick woods have I run, Whose bottom never kist the Sun Since the lusty Spring began, All to please my master Pan, Have I trotted without rest To get him Fruit; for at a Feast He entertains this coming night His Paramour, the Syrinx bright: But behold a fairer sight!

Now Great Pan for Syrinx sake bid speed our Plow.

SYRINX, an Arcadian nymph, who, being pursued by Pan, fled into a river, was metamorphosed into a reed, of which Pan made his flute.

Ah, thou dear and godlike mortal, 5 If Pan takes thee for his pupil, Make me but another Syrinx For that piping.

Ah, timid Syrinx, do I not know Thy tremor of sweet fear?

I can guess the heart-stop, Fall and lull and sequence, Full of grief for Syrinx 15 Long ago.

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