The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 43
Sivu 21
... rise , Grateful thy name to all the good and wise . 14. Monuments , & c . of him . We have the knowledge of some few monu- ments which were raised in honour to this great and ancient poet . Pausanias , in his Bœotics , informs us , that ...
... rise , Grateful thy name to all the good and wise . 14. Monuments , & c . of him . We have the knowledge of some few monu- ments which were raised in honour to this great and ancient poet . Pausanias , in his Bœotics , informs us , that ...
Sivu 39
... rise , Observes their growing wealth with envious eyes , With emulation fired , beholds their store , And toils with joy , who never toil'd before : The artist envies what the artist gains , The bard the rival bard's successful strains ...
... rise , Observes their growing wealth with envious eyes , With emulation fired , beholds their store , And toils with joy , who never toil'd before : The artist envies what the artist gains , The bard the rival bard's successful strains ...
Sivu 44
... rise , Unlike the former , men of monstrous size : Strong arms extensive from their shoulders grow , Their limbs of equal magnitude below ; Potent in arms , and dreadful at the spear , They live injurious , and devoid of fear : On the ...
... rise , Unlike the former , men of monstrous size : Strong arms extensive from their shoulders grow , Their limbs of equal magnitude below ; Potent in arms , and dreadful at the spear , They live injurious , and devoid of fear : On the ...
Sivu 51
... rise ; Of the pure victim burn the white fat thighs ; And to your wealth confine the sacrifice . Let the rich fumes of odorous incense fly , 450 A grateful savour , to the powers on high ; The due libation nor neglect to pay , When ...
... rise ; Of the pure victim burn the white fat thighs ; And to your wealth confine the sacrifice . Let the rich fumes of odorous incense fly , 450 A grateful savour , to the powers on high ; The due libation nor neglect to pay , When ...
Sivu 53
... rise , And of thy toil the fruits salute thine How sweet at home to have what life demands , 490 The just reward of our industrious hands ; To view our neighbour's bliss without desire , To dread not famine , with her aspect dire : Be ...
... rise , And of thy toil the fruits salute thine How sweet at home to have what life demands , 490 The just reward of our industrious hands ; To view our neighbour's bliss without desire , To dread not famine , with her aspect dire : Be ...
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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.