The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... rule of making the first syllable in naλos long : the Attic poets , Sophocles , Euripides , and Aristophanes , in innu- merable places , he says , make it short ; the Doric poets do the same : all therefore that can be in- ferred from ...
... rule of making the first syllable in naλos long : the Attic poets , Sophocles , Euripides , and Aristophanes , in innu- merable places , he says , make it short ; the Doric poets do the same : all therefore that can be in- ferred from ...
Strona 29
... rules of agriculture . ' I do not question but Manilius , in legesque rogavit , had his eye on these words of our poet Ουτος τοι πεδίων πελεται νομος , ' this is the law of the fields . ' What the Roman there says of Bacchus loving ...
... rules of agriculture . ' I do not question but Manilius , in legesque rogavit , had his eye on these words of our poet Ουτος τοι πεδίων πελεται νομος , ' this is the law of the fields . ' What the Roman there says of Bacchus loving ...
Strona 36
... rules economy beginning with agricul- ture . He points out the 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 ...
... rules economy beginning with agricul- ture . He points out the 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 ...
Strona 37
... rules for agri- culture . It is certain , that of all the pieces of this nature which were before Virgil , and extant in his days , this was most esteemed by him ; otherwise he would not have showed that respect to our author which he ...
... rules for agri- culture . It is certain , that of all the pieces of this nature which were before Virgil , and extant in his days , this was most esteemed by him ; otherwise he would not have showed that respect to our author which he ...
Strona 47
... who in ill delight , Whose daily acts pervert the rules of right ; To these the wise disposer , Jove , ordains Repeated losses , and a world of pains : Famines and plagues are , unexpected , nigh ; 320 B. I. 47 WORKS AND DAYS .
... who in ill delight , Whose daily acts pervert the rules of right ; To these the wise disposer , Jove , ordains Repeated losses , and a world of pains : Famines and plagues are , unexpected , nigh ; 320 B. I. 47 WORKS AND DAYS .
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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.