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I must not neglect to return my thanks to Mr. Warburton , for giving leave that his
most learned and ingenious dissertation on the sixth book of the Aeneid might be
here inserted ; which the reader will find much altered and enlarged with several
...
I must not neglect to return my thanks to Mr. Warburton , for giving leave that his
most learned and ingenious dissertation on the sixth book of the Aeneid might be
here inserted ; which the reader will find much altered and enlarged with several
...
Strona 12
Upon this unexpected Disappointment , melancholy and dejected , he returned to
Rome to renew his Petition and during his Journey seems ta have composed the
ninth Eclogue ; which appears to have been haftily made up , out of several ...
Upon this unexpected Disappointment , melancholy and dejected , he returned to
Rome to renew his Petition and during his Journey seems ta have composed the
ninth Eclogue ; which appears to have been haftily made up , out of several ...
Strona 45
If I might now venture to speak of the Merits of the several Pastoral Writers , I
would say , that in Theocritus we are charmed with a certain Sweetness , ness , a
romantic Rusticity and Wildness , heightened by A Dissertation upon Pastoral ...
If I might now venture to speak of the Merits of the several Pastoral Writers , I
would say , that in Theocritus we are charmed with a certain Sweetness , ness , a
romantic Rusticity and Wildness , heightened by A Dissertation upon Pastoral ...
Strona 167
Kind nature trees , by several means , supplies , Spontaneous fome , by art
untaught , arise ; At will , by brook , in lawn or meadow , bloom Th ' obedient osier
, and the bending broom ; While with the poplar on the mazy shore 15 The willow
...
Kind nature trees , by several means , supplies , Spontaneous fome , by art
untaught , arise ; At will , by brook , in lawn or meadow , bloom Th ' obedient osier
, and the bending broom ; While with the poplar on the mazy shore 15 The willow
...
Strona 253
Wheth : your hive you frame of woven boughs , Or rear with pliant bark the
concave house , 40 r 1 - 23. Palm . ] Dr. Martyn observes that the palm - tree is of
several forts ; but believes the species cultivated in Italy ( and confequently that
meant ...
Wheth : your hive you frame of woven boughs , Or rear with pliant bark the
concave house , 40 r 1 - 23. Palm . ] Dr. Martyn observes that the palm - tree is of
several forts ; but believes the species cultivated in Italy ( and confequently that
meant ...
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ancient appears Auguſtus bear beautiful bees Begin beneath beſt called common death deep deſcription earth Eclogue feed fields fire firſt flocks flow force fruits Georgics give gods ground groves hand hath head Hence himſelf imagine Italy kind lands laſt leaves light lines lively manner Martyn mean MENALCAS mentioned mind moſt mountains muſt nature o'er obſerved once original particularly paſſage perhaps perſon plains plant poem poet poetical poetry race rage riſe rivers Roman Rome ſame ſays ſee ſeems Servius ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeaks ſpring ſtill ſtrains ſtreams ſubject ſuch ſwains thee theſe things thoſe thou thought thro toil tranſlation trees turn uſed verſe vines Virgil whole whoſe wild winds woods writer young youth
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Strona 78 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Strona 35 - ... disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the Heavens ; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the Gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation.
Strona 32 - But ah! Maecenas is yclad in clay, And great Augustus long ago is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead...
Strona 319 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Strona 302 - Thus does the old gentleman give himself up to a loose kind of tattle, rather than endeavour after a just poetical description.
Strona 236 - And through his airy hall the loud misrule Of driving tempest is for ever heard: Here the grim tyrant meditates his wrath; Here arms his winds with all-subduing frost; Moulds his fierce hail, and treasures up his snows. With which he now oppresses half the globe.
Strona 328 - Po In angry waves ; Euphrates hence devolves A mighty flood to water half the east ; And there in gothic solitude reclin'd, The cheerless Tanais pours his hoary. urn.
Strona 5 - A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t' examine every part he came, —Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Strona 331 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...