The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Strona 17
... appearing to him , and giving him a sceptre of laurel , 1 pass over as a poetical flight . It likewise appears , from the first book of his Works and Days , ' that his father left some effects when he died ; on the division of which his ...
... appearing to him , and giving him a sceptre of laurel , 1 pass over as a poetical flight . It likewise appears , from the first book of his Works and Days , ' that his father left some effects when he died ; on the division of which his ...
Strona 22
... appears that both the parts are of the same work and date . ] 15. His Character . For his character we need go no further than his Works and Days . ' With what a dutiful affection he speaks of his father , when he pro- poses him as a ...
... appears that both the parts are of the same work and date . ] 15. His Character . For his character we need go no further than his Works and Days . ' With what a dutiful affection he speaks of his father , when he pro- poses him as a ...
Strona 24
... appearing to him ; and He- siod himself , in the second book of his Works and Days , ' has an allusion to these verses . 6 3. The Works and Days . The Works and Days ' is the first poem of its kind , if we may rely on the testimony of ...
... appearing to him ; and He- siod himself , in the second book of his Works and Days , ' has an allusion to these verses . 6 3. The Works and Days . The Works and Days ' is the first poem of its kind , if we may rely on the testimony of ...
Strona 29
... appear more clearly , if we observe in what manner Virgil introduces this line Ascræumque cano , Romana per oppida , carmen . This is in the second book of the Georgics ; the chief subjects of which book are the different me- thods of ...
... appear more clearly , if we observe in what manner Virgil introduces this line Ascræumque cano , Romana per oppida , carmen . This is in the second book of the Georgics ; the chief subjects of which book are the different me- thods of ...
Strona 31
... appear as much to the disadvantage of Homer as to the author of this poem . The other parts have no affinity to any book in the two poems of Homer . The poet begins with a beautiful description of the person of Alcmena , her love to ...
... appear as much to the disadvantage of Homer as to the author of this poem . The other parts have no affinity to any book in the two poems of Homer . The poet begins with a beautiful description of the person of Alcmena , her love to ...
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ancient Apollo Bacchus beauteous beauty beauty's behold beneath birth bless'd Boeotia bore born breast brother called Ceres Ceto charms Chimæra Chrysaor Clerc crown'd dame daughter deities derives divine dreadful earth Epimetheus eyes fable fair fame father fire fruits Georgic Geryon give goddess gods golden grace Grævius Greek hand head heaven Helicon Hence Hercules heroes Hesiod Homer honour immortal Jove Juno Jupiter justice king labour Lord Bacon maid meaning mighty mind mortal mountain Muses nature Neptune night nymphs o'er observe ocean offsprings Pallas passage Pausanias Peleus Perses Phoenician Phoenician word Phorcys plain Pleiades plough Plutarch Pluto poem poet poetical praise precepts Prometheus propitious race reason reign rise sacred Saturn says Scholiast sense signifies sing sire skies sons sprung story Styx swain Tartarus tells thee Theogony thou Titans translation Troy Typhoeus Tzetzes Venus verse Virgil Vulcan whence wind wise
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Strona 206 - ... a shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Strona 205 - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Strona 61 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Strona 65 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Strona 183 - Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as...
Strona 71 - And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away...
Strona 203 - More lovely, than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow'd with all their gifts, and O ! too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.
Strona 50 - Far does the man all other men excel Who from his wisdom thinks in all things well, Wisely considering, to himself a friend, All for the present best, and for the end. Nor is the man without his share of praise Who well the dictates of the wise obeys ; But he that is not wise himself, nor can Hearken to wisdom, is a useless man.
Strona 122 - Georgics go upon, is I think the meanest and least improving, but the most pleasing and delightful. Precepts of morality, besides the natural corruption of our tempers, which makes us averse to them, are so abstracted from ideas of sense, that they seldom give an opportunity for those beautiful descriptions and images which are the spirit and life of poetry.
Strona 73 - There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights, conceal'd from human eye : But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear.