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... begin now most fenfibly to perceive the force of that faying of a French author : " When a man writes , " he ought to animate himfelf with the thoughts of pleafing all the world ; but " he he is to renounce that hope , the very mo- ment ...
... begin now most fenfibly to perceive the force of that faying of a French author : " When a man writes , " he ought to animate himfelf with the thoughts of pleafing all the world ; but " he he is to renounce that hope , the very mo- ment ...
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... Begin , fince on the tender turf we rest , And fields and trees in fruitful stores are dreft . The lofty groves their verdant livery wear , And in full beauty blooms the laughing year . 60 65 70 Begin Damoetas ; next , Menalcas , prove ...
... Begin , fince on the tender turf we rest , And fields and trees in fruitful stores are dreft . The lofty groves their verdant livery wear , And in full beauty blooms the laughing year . 60 65 70 Begin Damoetas ; next , Menalcas , prove ...
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Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton. Begin Damoetas ; next , Menalcas , prove Thy fkill ; the Nine alternate measures love . DAMOETAS . Mufes from mighty Jove begin the theme ; With mighty Jove all nature's regions teem : With ...
Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton. Begin Damoetas ; next , Menalcas , prove Thy fkill ; the Nine alternate measures love . DAMOETAS . Mufes from mighty Jove begin the theme ; With mighty Jove all nature's regions teem : With ...
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... begin , the babe's aufpicious face , Pollio , thy glorious confulfhip fhall grace ; 5 10 What footsteps of our ancient crimes remain 15 For ever shall be banish'd in thy reign . He fhall enjoy the life divine , and fee The gods , and ...
... begin , the babe's aufpicious face , Pollio , thy glorious confulfhip fhall grace ; 5 10 What footsteps of our ancient crimes remain 15 For ever shall be banish'd in thy reign . He fhall enjoy the life divine , and fee The gods , and ...
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... Begin , begin , O lovelieft babe below ! Thy mother by her tender fmile to know ! 60 65 ( Ten tedious months that mother bore for thee The fickness and the pains of pregnancy ) 70 For if thy parents fmile not , ' tis decreed , No god ...
... Begin , begin , O lovelieft babe below ! Thy mother by her tender fmile to know ! 60 65 ( Ten tedious months that mother bore for thee The fickness and the pains of pregnancy ) 70 For if thy parents fmile not , ' tis decreed , No god ...
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Aeneid ancient Aratus Auguftus Bacchus beaſts beautiful becauſe bees beft beneath Caefar Ceres Columella Corydon DAMOETAS Daphnis defcribes defcription didactic ECLOGUE Eurydice Ev'n expreffion facred faid fame fays feed feems feveral fhade fhall fhepherd fhew fhore fhould figns fing firft firſt flocks foil folemn fome foreft fpeaks fpring ftill ftrains ftreams fubject fublime fuch fwains fweet Georgics groves hath heav'n himſelf HOLDSWORTH inftance Italy juft laft laſt likewife Lucretius LYCIDAS Maecenas Mantua Martyn MENALCAS moft MOPSUS moſt muft muſt nature nymphs o'er obferves occafion Oppian paffage paffion Paftoral perfon plains pleaſure plough poem poet poetical poetry Pollio praiſe prefent rage reafon reft rife Roman Rome Scorpius ſeems Servius ſhall ſhare ſhe ſkies ſky ſpeak SPENCE ſpread ſwains ſweet Taygete thee thefe Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tityrus toil tranflation trees uſed Varro verfe vines Virgil whofe whoſe wild
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 32 - But ah! Maecenas is yclad in clay, And great Augustus long ago is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead...
Seite 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.
Seite 302 - Thus does the old gentleman give himself up to a loose kind of tattle, rather than endeavour after a just poetical description.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...