The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and Months of the Year, Their Changes, Employments, Lessons, and Pleasures |
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... EPICURUS . Hail , sweet retirement ! Wisdom's peaceful seat ! Where , lifted from the crowd , and calmly placed Beyond the deafening roar of human strife , The Athenian sage his happy followers taught , That pleasure sprang from virtue ...
... EPICURUS . Hail , sweet retirement ! Wisdom's peaceful seat ! Where , lifted from the crowd , and calmly placed Beyond the deafening roar of human strife , The Athenian sage his happy followers taught , That pleasure sprang from virtue ...
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... Epicurus placed in his garden a statue of the Venus Celestis , which probably he might intend should be symbol- ical of his doctrine . With sudden inundation ? Ah , with care Accumulate thy load , or in the mow , Or on the rising rick ...
... Epicurus placed in his garden a statue of the Venus Celestis , which probably he might intend should be symbol- ical of his doctrine . With sudden inundation ? Ah , with care Accumulate thy load , or in the mow , Or on the rising rick ...
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... Epicurus taught at the end of the previous canto . - J . 3 Minerva is said to have invented the art of weaving . 4 The pellicle of the Egyptian plant , papyrus , was an- ciently used for writing upon ; whence the name of paper ...
... Epicurus taught at the end of the previous canto . - J . 3 Minerva is said to have invented the art of weaving . 4 The pellicle of the Egyptian plant , papyrus , was an- ciently used for writing upon ; whence the name of paper ...
Contents
Mrs Hemanss Voice of Spring | 52 |
HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS | 70 |
SUMMER pp 135296 | 135 |
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