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... song ; And Eve answer'd all the female throng . It is admitted that there is here " no mistake of the author or the printer ; " still , to please " the classic reader , " Dr. C. prints " Euoi , for the modern Eve . " We think the ...
... song ; And Eve answer'd all the female throng . It is admitted that there is here " no mistake of the author or the printer ; " still , to please " the classic reader , " Dr. C. prints " Euoi , for the modern Eve . " We think the ...
Page 54
... song attributed to Apollo , who himself , too , un- luckily had been a shepherd ; and he took it from another yet more ancient , composed by the first in- ventor of music , and at that time a shepherd too ; and this is one of the ...
... song attributed to Apollo , who himself , too , un- luckily had been a shepherd ; and he took it from another yet more ancient , composed by the first in- ventor of music , and at that time a shepherd too ; and this is one of the ...
Page 55
... songs with the creation , and does it too most properly under the person of a shepherd . And thus the first and best ... song of a god , or to imprint religious awe , than the omnipo- tent power of transforming the species of creatures ...
... songs with the creation , and does it too most properly under the person of a shepherd . And thus the first and best ... song of a god , or to imprint religious awe , than the omnipo- tent power of transforming the species of creatures ...
Page 72
... songs , preferring them to the Greek and Latin . But an ancient writer , of as good credit , has assured us that seven lives would hardly suffice to read over the Greek odes ; but a few weeks would be sufficient , if a man were so very ...
... songs , preferring them to the Greek and Latin . But an ancient writer , of as good credit , has assured us that seven lives would hardly suffice to read over the Greek odes ; but a few weeks would be sufficient , if a man were so very ...
Page 83
... song , So just , so warm , so smooth , and yet so strong , Thou heav'nly charmer ! soul of harmony ! That all their geniuses reviv'd in thee . Thy trumpet sounds : the dead are rais'd to light ; New - born they rise , and take to heav'n ...
... song , So just , so warm , so smooth , and yet so strong , Thou heav'nly charmer ! soul of harmony ! That all their geniuses reviv'd in thee . Thy trumpet sounds : the dead are rais'd to light ; New - born they rise , and take to heav'n ...
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Page 268 - Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of Fortune, and resigned to Fate!
Page 187 - A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress, and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry.
Page 164 - Here could I live, and love, and die with only you. Now I to fighting fields am sent afar, .And strive in winter camps with toils of war; While you (alas, that I should find it so!), To shun my sight, your native soil forego, 70 And climb the frozen Alps, and tread th
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Page 228 - With sharpen'd horns if glorious then she shine, Next day, not only that, but all the moon, Till her revolving race be wholly run, Are void of tempests...
Page 264 - But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty, the rich owner bless ; And rural pleasures crown his happiness.
Page 133 - His rosy wreath was dropt not long before, Borne by the tide of wine, and floating on the floor. His empty can, with ears half worn away, Was hung on high, to boast the triumph of the day. Invaded thus, for want...
Page 99 - Farewell, my pastures, my paternal stock, My fruitful fields, and my more fruitful flock! No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flowery thyme!
Page 128 - Alphesiboeus, tripping, shall advance, And mimic Satyrs in his antic dance. When to the nymphs our annual rites we pay, And when our fields with victims we survey ; While savage boars delight in shady woods, And finny fish inhabit in the floods ; While bees on thyme, and locusts feed on dew — Thy grateful swains these honours shall renew. Such honours as we pay to powers divine, To Bacchus and to Ceres, shall be thine.
Page 222 - And rocks the bellowing voice of boiling seas rebound. The father of the gods his glory shrouds, Involved in tempests, and a night of clouds; And, from the middle darkness flashing out, By fits he deals his fiery bolts about.