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... , I should think he has exe- cuted his work with great spirit , that he has a fine flow of harmonious verfification , and has has rendered his author's sense with faithful- nefs and perfpicuity PREFATORY DEDICATION . xix.
... , I should think he has exe- cuted his work with great spirit , that he has a fine flow of harmonious verfification , and has has rendered his author's sense with faithful- nefs and perfpicuity PREFATORY DEDICATION . xix.
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... flow , obey'd . She came at last , tho ' late she bleft my fight , When age had filver'd o'er my beard with white ; But ne'er approach'd till my revolting breast Had for a new exchang'd its wonted guest : There Amaryllis reigns ; yet ...
... flow , obey'd . She came at last , tho ' late she bleft my fight , When age had filver'd o'er my beard with white ; But ne'er approach'd till my revolting breast Had for a new exchang'd its wonted guest : There Amaryllis reigns ; yet ...
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... flow'rs , or willow's harsher boughs . TITYRUS . Yet here , this night , at least , with me reclin'd On the green leaves , an humble welcome find ; Ripe apples , chefnuts foft , my fields afford , And cheese in plenty loads my rural ...
... flow'rs , or willow's harsher boughs . TITYRUS . Yet here , this night , at least , with me reclin'd On the green leaves , an humble welcome find ; Ripe apples , chefnuts foft , my fields afford , And cheese in plenty loads my rural ...
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... flow'rs we ftill neglect , But dusky hyacinths with care collect . * 20 ' Thou know'ft not whom thou fcorn'ft -- what snowy kine , What luscious milk , what rural ftores are mine ! Mine are a thousand lambs in yonder vales , My milk in ...
... flow'rs we ftill neglect , But dusky hyacinths with care collect . * 20 ' Thou know'ft not whom thou fcorn'ft -- what snowy kine , What luscious milk , what rural ftores are mine ! Mine are a thousand lambs in yonder vales , My milk in ...
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... flow'ry arbute to the weanling kid : The tender willows to the teeming herd : By me o'er all Amyntas is preferr'd . 120 retia fervo ? " What fignifies your love to me , if you will " not let me fhew mine to you by fharing your dangers ...
... flow'ry arbute to the weanling kid : The tender willows to the teeming herd : By me o'er all Amyntas is preferr'd . 120 retia fervo ? " What fignifies your love to me , if you will " not let me fhew mine to you by fharing your dangers ...
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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...