The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... proper soil for each kind , and of the care of vines and olives ; and he has in that book the very expression Ma- nilius applies to Hesiod . Bacchus amat colles ( says Virgil ) ; rogavit quos colles Bacchus ama- ret , says the other of ...
... proper soil for each kind , and of the care of vines and olives ; and he has in that book the very expression Ma- nilius applies to Hesiod . Bacchus amat colles ( says Virgil ) ; rogavit quos colles Bacchus ama- ret , says the other of ...
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... proper season for the plough , the harvest , the vintage and for felling wood ; he shows the fruits of industry , and the ill consequences of negligence . He describes the different seasons , and tells us what works are proper to each ...
... proper season for the plough , the harvest , the vintage and for felling wood ; he shows the fruits of industry , and the ill consequences of negligence . He describes the different seasons , and tells us what works are proper to each ...
Strona 37
... proper to be observed through the course of our lives . SING , Muses , sing , from the Pierian grove ; Begin the song , and let the theme be Jove ; From him ye sprung , and him ye first should praise ; From your immortal sire deduce ...
... proper to be observed through the course of our lives . SING , Muses , sing , from the Pierian grove ; Begin the song , and let the theme be Jove ; From him ye sprung , and him ye first should praise ; From your immortal sire deduce ...
Strona 38
... Works ' is meant the art of agriculture , and by ' Days ' the proper seasons for works . See further in a Discourse on the Writings of Hesiod prefixed . Such Jove , who thunders terrible from high , Who 38 B. I. WORKS AND DAYS .
... Works ' is meant the art of agriculture , and by ' Days ' the proper seasons for works . See further in a Discourse on the Writings of Hesiod prefixed . Such Jove , who thunders terrible from high , Who 38 B. I. WORKS AND DAYS .
Strona 41
... - tress'd Seasons bring A garland breathing all the sweets of spring . Each present Pallas gives its proper place , And adds to every ornament a grace . E 110 Next Hermes taught the fair the heart to move , B. I. 41 WORKS AND DAYS .
... - tress'd Seasons bring A garland breathing all the sweets of spring . Each present Pallas gives its proper place , And adds to every ornament a grace . E 110 Next Hermes taught the fair the heart to move , B. I. 41 WORKS AND DAYS .
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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...
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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.