The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Sivu 26
... immortal race ; He sings how Chaos bore the earthly mass ; How light from darkness struck did beams display , And infant stars first stagger'd in their way ; How name of brother veil'd a husband's love , And Juno bore unaided by her ...
... immortal race ; He sings how Chaos bore the earthly mass ; How light from darkness struck did beams display , And infant stars first stagger'd in their way ; How name of brother veil'd a husband's love , And Juno bore unaided by her ...
Sivu 36
... immortal gods , and the various ways of paying our homage to them . He concludes with a short observation on days ; dividing them into the good , bad , and indifferent . WORKS AND DAYS ' . BOOK I. The Argument . I suppose Heinsius means ...
... immortal gods , and the various ways of paying our homage to them . He concludes with a short observation on days ; dividing them into the good , bad , and indifferent . WORKS AND DAYS ' . BOOK I. The Argument . I suppose Heinsius means ...
Sivu 37
... 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 same subject , and of the same title , wrote by Orpheus . How much this ...
... 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 same subject , and of the same title , wrote by Orpheus . How much this ...
Sivu 40
... immortal gods on men bestow A mind , how few the wants of life to know ; They all the year from labour free might live On what the bounty of a day would give ; They soon the rudder o'er the smoke would lay , And let the mule and ox at ...
... immortal gods on men bestow A mind , how few the wants of life to know ; They all the year from labour free might live On what the bounty of a day would give ; They soon the rudder o'er the smoke would lay , And let the mule and ox at ...
Sivu 43
... immortal spies with watchful care preside , And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide : They can reward with glory or with gold ; 180 A power they by divine permission hold . Worse than the first , a second age appears , Which ...
... immortal spies with watchful care preside , And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide : They can reward with glory or with gold ; 180 A power they by divine permission hold . Worse than the first , a second age appears , Which ...
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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.