| Henry Phillips - 1823 - 352 Seiten
...On sods of turf he sat, the soldiers round ; A maple throne, rais'd higher from the ground, Receiv'd the Trojan chief; and o'er the bed A lion's shaggy hide, for ornament, they spread." 8. Pliny enumerates ten different kinds of the maple that were known to the Romans in his time, the... | |
| Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 Seiten
..." Thus having said, the bowls (removed for fear) The youths replaced, and soon restored the cheer, On sods of turf he set the soldiers round ; A maple...bed A lion's shaggy hide for ornament they spread." DRYDEN'S Translation. " Surely," says Evelyn, " there were some of them of large bulk and noble shade,... | |
| 1825 - 404 Seiten
...cloth." — EVELYN. Virgil introduces Evander as holding his court among the groves of Maple, and says, " On sods of turf he set the soldiers round, A maple...higher from the ground Received the Trojan chief." — JEnzin. This wood can be worked so thin as to become almost transparent— but the tree, in its... | |
| Virgil - 1830 - 370 Seiten
...Thus having said, the bowls (removed for fear) 235 The youths replaced, and soon restored the cheer. On sods of turf he set the soldiers round: A maple...bed, A lion's shaggy hide, for ornament, they spread. 240 The loaves were served in canisters ; the wine In bowls ; the priest renew'd the rites divine :... | |
| 1831 - 796 Seiten
...and its branches as the canopy under which he received and seated vEneas. ' On sods of turf he gat, the soldiers round ; A maple throne, raised higher...A lion's shaggy hide, for ornament, they spread.' Pliny enumerates ten different kinds of maples that were known to the Romans in his time, the timber... | |
| 1831 - 420 Seiten
...and its branches as the canopy under which he received and seated vEneas. ' On sods of turf he sat, the soldiers round ; A maple throne, raised higher...the Trojan chief; and o'er the bed A lion's shaggy bide, for ornament, they spread.' Pliny enumerates ten different kinds of maples that were known to... | |
| Virgil - 1834 - 340 Seiten
...Thus having said, the bowls (removed for fear) 235 The youths replaced, and soon restored the cheer. On sods of turf he set the soldiers round : A maple...bed, A lion's shaggy hide, for ornament, they spread. 240 The loaves were served in canisters ; the wine In bowls; the priest renew'd the rites divine: Broil'd... | |
| 1837 - 276 Seiten
...and its branches as the canopy under which he received and seated .'Eneas. " On sods of turf he sat the soldiers round A maple throne, raised higher from...A lion's shaggy hide, for ornament, they spread." Plinjr enumerates ten different kinds of maple that were known to the Romans in his time, the timber... | |
| John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 Seiten
...treat." Thus having said, the bowls remov'd (for fear) The youth replaced, and soon restor'd the cheer. On sods of turf he set the soldiers round : A maple throne, rais'd higher from the ground, Receiv'd the Trojan chief; and o'er the bed A lion's shaggy hide, for... | |
| Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 Seiten
...classical writers. Virgil represents ./Eneas at the court of Evander as seated on a maple throne : — " On sods of turf he set the soldiers round : A maple...higher from the ground Received the Trojan chief." Doubtless that author selected it on account of the estimation in which it was held for ornamental... | |
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