Virgil: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid I-VIHarper & Brothers, 1834 - Agriculture |
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... tempests veils its head ; Or rock'd ' mid Garamantian crags to rest , He tears , remorseless tears the human breast : 50 55 of a lion , and the head and wings of an eagle - to be occupied in digging gold out of the mines of the north of ...
... tempests veils its head ; Or rock'd ' mid Garamantian crags to rest , He tears , remorseless tears the human breast : 50 55 of a lion , and the head and wings of an eagle - to be occupied in digging gold out of the mines of the north of ...
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... tempests gather , ere the rains descend . 235 240 When Taurus ' golden horns the year unbar , And Sirius " ' gins to pale " his yielding star , Then beans and lucerne claim the mellow soil , 245 And millet springing from thy yearly toil ...
... tempests gather , ere the rains descend . 235 240 When Taurus ' golden horns the year unbar , And Sirius " ' gins to pale " his yielding star , Then beans and lucerne claim the mellow soil , 245 And millet springing from thy yearly toil ...
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Virgil. The tempest darkens , blasts redoubled rave , Smite the hoarse wood , and lash the howling wave . Preventful ... tempests swoln with snow ; And the moon warn when winds should rise or fall , And cattle pasture near the sheltering ...
Virgil. The tempest darkens , blasts redoubled rave , Smite the hoarse wood , and lash the howling wave . Preventful ... tempests swoln with snow ; And the moon warn when winds should rise or fall , And cattle pasture near the sheltering ...
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... tempests swell th ' infuriate deep Than pest on pest invades the ravaged sheep : Fate strikes not here and there , some lonely head ; 405 Herds , and their hopes alike , the race are dead . Cast o'er Timavus ' meads thy mournful sight ...
... tempests swell th ' infuriate deep Than pest on pest invades the ravaged sheep : Fate strikes not here and there , some lonely head ; 405 Herds , and their hopes alike , the race are dead . Cast o'er Timavus ' meads thy mournful sight ...
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... tempests sweep , Unload the labourer , or , embattled , drive The drone , dull sluggard , from the busy hive : A nation toils , the work unwearied glows , And , redolent of thyme , the honey flows . As when the Cyclops , for the ...
... tempests sweep , Unload the labourer , or , embattled , drive The drone , dull sluggard , from the busy hive : A nation toils , the work unwearied glows , And , redolent of thyme , the honey flows . As when the Cyclops , for the ...
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Page 143 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 133 - He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; And he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 56 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Page 271 - Then with their sharpen'd fangs their limbs and bodies grind. The wretched father, running to their aid With pious haste, but vain, they next invade ; Twice round his waist their winding volumes roll'd ; And twice about his gasping throat they fold. The priest thus doubly choked — their crests divide, And towering o'er his head in triumph ride.
Page 13 - Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces.
Page 208 - Turnus, which concludes the action, there need not be supposed above ten months of intermediate time; for arriving at Carthage in the latter end of summer, staying there the winter following, departing thence in the very beginning of the spring, making a short abode in Sicily the second time, landing in Italy, and making the war, may be reasonably judged the business but of ten months.
Page 223 - I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age.
Page 263 - All were attentive to the godlike man, When from his lofty couch he thus began: 'Great queen, what you command me to relate, Renews the sad remembrance of our fate...
Page 271 - His holy fillets the blue venom blots; His roaring fills the flitting air around. Thus, when an ox receives a glancing wound, He breaks his bands, the fatal altar flies, And with loud bellowings breaks the yielding skies. Their tasks...
Page 263 - At last, having been before advised by Hector's ghost, and now by the appearance of his mother Venus, he is prevailed upon to leave the town, and settle his household gods in another country. In order to this, he carries off his father on his shoulders, and leads his little son by the hand, his wife following him behind. When he comes to the place appointed for the general rendezvous, he finds a great confluence of people, but misses his wife, whose ghost afterwards appears to him, and tells him...