The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Sivu 26
... Jove , How twice born Bacchus burst the thunderer's thigh , And all the gods that wander through the sky : Hence he to fields descends , manures the soil , Instructs the ploughman , and rewards his toil ; He sings how corn in plains ...
... Jove , How twice born Bacchus burst the thunderer's thigh , And all the gods that wander through the sky : Hence he to fields descends , manures the soil , Instructs the ploughman , and rewards his toil ; He sings how corn in plains ...
Sivu 28
... Jove , and the wars of the giants and the gods , one of the greatest subjects of the Theogony , the English translator has left untouched . I am not ignorant of a various reading of this passage , viz . " Titanasque juvisse senis ...
... Jove , and the wars of the giants and the gods , one of the greatest subjects of the Theogony , the English translator has left untouched . I am not ignorant of a various reading of this passage , viz . " Titanasque juvisse senis ...
Sivu 35
... Jove ( the fire is by the divine Plato , in his allusion to this passage , called the necessaries , or abundance of life ; ' and those are called subtle , ' who were solicitous after the abundance of life ) , the god created a great ...
... Jove ( the fire is by the divine Plato , in his allusion to this passage , called the necessaries , or abundance of life ; ' and those are called subtle , ' who were solicitous after the abundance of life ) , the god created a great ...
Sivu 37
... Jove ; From him ye sprung , and him ye first should praise ; From your immortal sire deduce your lays ; The Scholiast Tzetzes tells us , this poem was first called the Works and Days of Hesiod ; ' to distinguish it from another on the ...
... Jove ; From him ye sprung , and him ye first should praise ; From your immortal sire deduce your lays ; The Scholiast Tzetzes tells us , this poem was first called the Works and Days of Hesiod ; ' to distinguish it from another on the ...
Sivu 38
... Jove . With ease he lifts the peasant to a crown , With the same ease he casts the monarch down ; With ease he clouds the brightest name in night , And calls the meanest to the fairest light ; At will he varies life through every state ...
... Jove . With ease he lifts the peasant to a crown , With the same ease he casts the monarch down ; With ease he clouds the brightest name in night , And calls the meanest to the fairest light ; At will he varies life through every state ...
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ancient Apollo Bacchus beauteous beauty beauty's behold beneath birth bless'd Boeotia bore born breast brother called Ceres Ceto charms Chimæra Chrysaor Clerc crown'd dame daughter deities derives divine dreadful earth Epimetheus eyes fable fair fame father fire fruits Georgic Geryon give goddess gods golden grace Grævius Greek hand head heaven Helicon Hence Hercules heroes Hesiod Homer honour immortal Jove Juno Jupiter justice king labour Lord Bacon maid meaning mighty mind mortal mountain Muses nature Neptune night nymphs o'er observe ocean offsprings Pallas passage Pausanias Peleus Perses Phoenician Phoenician word Phorcys plain Pleiades plough Plutarch Pluto poem poet poetical praise precepts Prometheus propitious race reason reign rise sacred Saturn says Scholiast sense signifies sing sire skies sons sprung story Styx swain Tartarus tells thee Theogony thou Titans translation Troy Typhoeus Tzetzes Venus verse Virgil Vulcan whence wind wise
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Sivu 206 - ... a shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Sivu 205 - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Sivu 61 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Sivu 65 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Sivu 183 - Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as...
Sivu 71 - And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away...
Sivu 203 - More lovely, than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow'd with all their gifts, and O ! too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.
Sivu 50 - Far does the man all other men excel Who from his wisdom thinks in all things well, Wisely considering, to himself a friend, All for the present best, and for the end. Nor is the man without his share of praise Who well the dictates of the wise obeys ; But he that is not wise himself, nor can Hearken to wisdom, is a useless man.
Sivu 122 - Georgics go upon, is I think the meanest and least improving, but the most pleasing and delightful. Precepts of morality, besides the natural corruption of our tempers, which makes us averse to them, are so abstracted from ideas of sense, that they seldom give an opportunity for those beautiful descriptions and images which are the spirit and life of poetry.
Sivu 73 - There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights, conceal'd from human eye : But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear.