The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Strona 35
... happy in their death . Hence the poet passes to the third , the brazen age ; the men of which , he says , were fierce and terrible , who ignobly fell by their own folly and civil discord : nor was their future fate like to the other ...
... happy in their death . Hence the poet passes to the third , the brazen age ; the men of which , he says , were fierce and terrible , who ignobly fell by their own folly and civil discord : nor was their future fate like to the other ...
Strona 41
... happy art : And golden Venus was to teach the fair The wiles of love , and to improve her air , And then , in awful majesty , to shed A thousand graceful charms around her head : Next Hermes , artful god , must form her mind , One day ...
... happy art : And golden Venus was to teach the fair The wiles of love , and to improve her air , And then , in awful majesty , to shed A thousand graceful charms around her head : Next Hermes , artful god , must form her mind , One day ...
Strona 44
... happy deem'd beyond the state of man ; 199 Their names were grateful to their children made ; Each paid a reverence to his father's shade . And now a third , a brazen people rise , Unlike the former , men of monstrous size : Strong arms ...
... happy deem'd beyond the state of man ; 199 Their names were grateful to their children made ; Each paid a reverence to his father's shade . And now a third , a brazen people rise , Unlike the former , men of monstrous size : Strong arms ...
Strona 45
... happy soil far in the distant main , Where live the hero shades in rich repast , Remote from mortals of a vulgar cast : There in the island of the bless'd they find , 230 Where Saturn reigns , an endless calm of mind ; And there the ...
... happy soil far in the distant main , Where live the hero shades in rich repast , Remote from mortals of a vulgar cast : There in the island of the bless'd they find , 230 Where Saturn reigns , an endless calm of mind ; And there the ...
Strona 52
... Happy the man , with peace his days are crown'd , Whose house an honest neighbourhood surround ; Of foreign harms he never sleeps afraid , They , always ready , bring their willing aid ; Cheerful , should he some busy pressure feel ...
... Happy the man , with peace his days are crown'd , Whose house an honest neighbourhood surround ; Of foreign harms he never sleeps afraid , They , always ready , bring their willing aid ; Cheerful , should he some busy pressure feel ...
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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.