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... wild beafts that roar in its caverns , all contribute to ftrike the imagination . with inexpreffible astonishment and awe . While reading the Aeneid is like behold- ing the Capitoline hill at Rome , on which stood . ftood many edifices ...
... wild beafts that roar in its caverns , all contribute to ftrike the imagination . with inexpreffible astonishment and awe . While reading the Aeneid is like behold- ing the Capitoline hill at Rome , on which stood . ftood many edifices ...
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... wild deviations from his original , as are utterly aftonishing in fo great and true a genius . But instead of the invidious and difagreeable task of pointing out these passages at length , I chufe rather to say in those generous words ...
... wild deviations from his original , as are utterly aftonishing in fo great and true a genius . But instead of the invidious and difagreeable task of pointing out these passages at length , I chufe rather to say in those generous words ...
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... wilds the flags of Bacchus bear , And lead his dances with dishevell'd hair , Increase the clamour , and the war demand- Dryd . 803 . As he had before given a streamer to Au- rora , he here gives flags to the attendants of Bacchus ...
... wilds the flags of Bacchus bear , And lead his dances with dishevell'd hair , Increase the clamour , and the war demand- Dryd . 803 . As he had before given a streamer to Au- rora , he here gives flags to the attendants of Bacchus ...
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... wild Beafts lamenting , the Fields withering , Apollo and Pales leaving the Plains , the Nymphs mourning around his Body , and Venus herself bitterly la- menting , Cum complexa fui corpus miferabile nati , Atque deos atque aftra vocat ...
... wild Beafts lamenting , the Fields withering , Apollo and Pales leaving the Plains , the Nymphs mourning around his Body , and Venus herself bitterly la- menting , Cum complexa fui corpus miferabile nati , Atque deos atque aftra vocat ...
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... wild Beasts the Silvan War to wage , And o'er vaft Plains their Herds and Flocks to feed ; Bleft Sons of Nature they , true golden Age indeed ! Thomfon's Cafle of Indolence . The The Love of the Country is fo ftrong a Paffion [37] ...
... wild Beasts the Silvan War to wage , And o'er vaft Plains their Herds and Flocks to feed ; Bleft Sons of Nature they , true golden Age indeed ! Thomfon's Cafle of Indolence . The The Love of the Country is fo ftrong a Paffion [37] ...
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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...