The songs of the poets of old shall cease to make our faithlessness their theme. Phoebus, lord of minstrelsy, hath not implanted in our mind the gift of heavenly song, else had I sung an answering strain to the race of males, for time's long chapter affords many a theme on their sex as well as ours.英文原著 · 《Medea》
"Come, list to the lay of the olden time," A troubadour sang on a moonlit stream: "The scene is laid in a foreign clime, "A century back--and love is the theme." Love was the theme of the troubadour's rhyme, Of lady and lord of the olden time英文原著 · 《Poems》
fresh themes to present before you, themes that have no relation to英文原著 · 《The Clouds》
"Binnorie," or "The Two Sisters," is a ballad on an old theme popular in Scandinavia as well as in this country. There have been many versions of it. Rimbault published it from a broadside dated 1656. The version here given is Sir Walter Scott's, from his "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," with a few touches from other versions given in Professor Francis James Child's noble edition of "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads," which, when complete, will be the chief storehouse of our ballad lore.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
In a word, the paper of Aristarchus is a rigidly scientific document unvitiated by association with any theorizings that are not directly germane to its central theme. The treatise opens with certain hypotheses as follows: "First. The moon receives its light from the sun. "Second. The earth may be considered as a point and as the centre of the orbit of the moon. "Third. When the moon appears to us dichotomized it offers to our view a great circle [or actual meridian] of its circumference which divides the illuminated part from the dark part. "Fourth.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-1》
My father had believed in the near millennium. His very last writing, in his sick-room, was a penciled computation, from the prophets, of the time when it would begin. The first minister who preached in our church, long before I was born, had studied the subject much, and had written books upon this, his favorite theme. The thought of it was continually breaking out, like bloom and sunshine, from the stern doctrines of the period.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
s ever to sewing things up. So, BoJack sold the restaurant to Joey Pogo and me, and we relaunched it with my fiancée Pickles as a themed eatery. What is the theme? Pickles wanted small plates, Joey wanted lazy Susans, and I wanted the theme to be my face is on the front of the menu. So, we did all three! - What's the big idea? - I'm in the middle of eating! Huh? It's the perfect compromise because everybody got what they wanted, and nobody had to compromise! - And why is it called Ele-fee-no? - Ele-fi-no. Well, if you don't know, hell if I know!美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
- Um, what should we do for the theme? - "Lusts of the Flesh." - What? - I don't know. Cowboy theme?美剧 · 《Friends》
Name this television theme song: [HUMMING "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" THEME sows] Oh. Oh, my God. Okay, I know this. Give me a second.美剧 · 《Friends》
We can have theme nights, Ultimate Fighting nights, Real Desperate Housewives of Bravo City nights,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
But that really started me on a path to be able to do a kind of theme and variations but that really started me on a path to be able to do a kind of theme and variations演讲 · 《Using design to make ideas new ~ Milton Glaser》
So here are the themes. We believe there is a unified theory underlying all the regularities. So here are the themes. We believe there is a unified theory underlying all the regularities.演讲 · 《Beauty, truth and ... physics ~ Murray Gell-Mann》