The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... hands , our countrymen have an opportunity of discovering the beauties of the ancients , without the trouble and expense of learning their languages , which are of no other advantage to us than for the authors who have writ in them ...
... hands , our countrymen have an opportunity of discovering the beauties of the ancients , without the trouble and expense of learning their languages , which are of no other advantage to us than for the authors who have writ in them ...
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... hands the Iliad and Odyssey have been , since they came from the first author , they would not have pretended to determine the question , who was first by their style . 1 9. Dr. Clarke's and Sir Isaac Newton's Opi- nions considered . Dr ...
... hands the Iliad and Odyssey have been , since they came from the first author , they would not have pretended to determine the question , who was first by their style . 1 9. Dr. Clarke's and Sir Isaac Newton's Opi- nions considered . Dr ...
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... hand : the same author tells us , in another place , there was likewise a statue of Hesiod in the temple of Jupiter Olympicus . Fulvius Ursi- nus , and Boissard , in his Antiquities , have ex- hibited a breast with a head , a trunk ...
... hand : the same author tells us , in another place , there was likewise a statue of Hesiod in the temple of Jupiter Olympicus . Fulvius Ursi- nus , and Boissard , in his Antiquities , have ex- hibited a breast with a head , a trunk ...
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... hands of the poet , which I shall endeavour to show in the next section . This poem , as Plu- tarch in his Symposiacs assures us , was sung to the harp . 4. The Theogony , and Works and Days , the only undoubted Poems of Hesiod now ...
... hands of the poet , which I shall endeavour to show in the next section . This poem , as Plu- tarch in his Symposiacs assures us , was sung to the harp . 4. The Theogony , and Works and Days , the only undoubted Poems of Hesiod now ...
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... hand , and easily attained ; for Saturn had first made a golden age of men , to which the earth yielded all her fruits spontaneously ; the mortals of the golden age submitted to a soft and pleasant death , and were afterwards made ...
... hand , and easily attained ; for Saturn had first made a golden age of men , to which the earth yielded all her fruits spontaneously ; the mortals of the golden age submitted to a soft and pleasant death , and were afterwards made ...
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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.