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Strona 39
... , my just decrees observe , Nor from thy honest labour idly swerve ; The love of strife , that joys in evils , shun ; Nor to the forum from thy duty run . 41 50 How vain the wranglings of the bar to mind B. I. 39 WORKS AND DAYS .
... , my just decrees observe , Nor from thy honest labour idly swerve ; The love of strife , that joys in evils , shun ; Nor to the forum from thy duty run . 41 50 How vain the wranglings of the bar to mind B. I. 39 WORKS AND DAYS .
Strona 40
... labour free might live On what the bounty of a day would give ; They soon the rudder o'er the smoke would lay , And let the mule and ox at leisure stray : This sense to man the king of gods denies , In wrath to him who daring robb'd the ...
... labour free might live On what the bounty of a day would give ; They soon the rudder o'er the smoke would lay , And let the mule and ox at leisure stray : This sense to man the king of gods denies , In wrath to him who daring robb'd the ...
Strona 43
... labour free they every sense enjoy ; Nor could the ills of time their peace destroy ; In banquets they delight , removed from care ; Nor troublesome old age intruded there : They die , or rather seem to die ; they seem From hence ...
... labour free they every sense enjoy ; Nor could the ills of time their peace destroy ; In banquets they delight , removed from care ; Nor troublesome old age intruded there : They die , or rather seem to die ; they seem From hence ...
Strona 45
... labour death alone can give ; And yet , amid the cares our lives annoy , The gods will grant some intervals of joy : But how degenerate is the human state ! Virtue no more distinguishes the great ; No safe reception shall the stranger ...
... labour death alone can give ; And yet , amid the cares our lives annoy , The gods will grant some intervals of joy : But how degenerate is the human state ! Virtue no more distinguishes the great ; No safe reception shall the stranger ...
Strona 50
... labour free , Like drones , the robbers of the painful bee , 401 Has always men , and gods , alike his foes ; Him famine follows with her train of woes . With cheerful zeal your moderate toils pursue , That your full barns you may in ...
... labour free , Like drones , the robbers of the painful bee , 401 Has always men , and gods , alike his foes ; Him famine follows with her train of woes . With cheerful zeal your moderate toils pursue , That your full barns you may in ...
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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.