"Syrinx" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... could play were the organ, the guitar, the syrinx or panpipe, and the lyre, which she struck not with her fingers, but a plectrum represented beside it. Observe, between the lyre and the banjo her little satchel of music-books, and below the syrinx a lamb and palm. ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould
... melodious sighs of the Wood-god, and the splash of the water, mingled gently with the whispering leaves. It was a delicious time, and its soft influence stole into the soul of Elise. The sun, the scent of the roses, the song of the wood and of the water, and the Syrinx, the beautiful scene before her, the happy children—all these called up suddenly into her breast that summer of the heart, in which all sentiments, all thoughts, are like beautiful flowers, and which makes life seem so ...
— The Home • Fredrika Bremer
... thus the god:—"A lovely Naiaed nymph, "With bleak Arcadia's Hamadryads nurs'd, "And on Nonacrine for beauty fam'd "Was Syrinx. Oft the satyrs wild she fled; "Nor these alone, but every god that roves "In shady forests, or in fertile fields. "Dian' she follows, and her virgin life. "Like Dian' cinctur'd, she might Dian' seem, "Save that a golden ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... Incidental rapport with the Greeks has been pointed out in other instances; the surang[a], a mine, of the late tale in i. 148. 12, etc (Ind. St. ii. p. 395), has been equated with syrinx; Skanda with Alexander, etc. It is needless to say that each of these is only a guess in etymology. But Greek influence is perceptible in the Greek soldiers and names of (Greek) kings that are found in ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins
... each haunt he knew, Of fount or sinuous stream or grassy marge, He set the syrinx to his lips, and blew A note ...
— Lyrics of Earth • Archibald Lampman
... said; "what a funny figure, or, to put it more correctly, what a funny profession! There, there, that one who's playing on a 'syrinx of ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin |
