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... thou , whose trident struck the teeming earth , And made a passage for the courser's birth ; And thou , for whom the Cæan shore sustains The milky herds , that graze the flowery plains ; tic style , it is here . The compliment he makes ...
... thou , whose trident struck the teeming earth , And made a passage for the courser's birth ; And thou , for whom the Cæan shore sustains The milky herds , that graze the flowery plains ; tic style , it is here . The compliment he makes ...
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... Thou founder of the plough , and ploughman's toil ; And thou , whose hands the shrowd - like cypress rear , Come , all ye gods and goddesses , that wear The rural honours , and increase the year ; You , who supply the ground with seeds ...
... Thou founder of the plough , and ploughman's toil ; And thou , whose hands the shrowd - like cypress rear , Come , all ye gods and goddesses , that wear The rural honours , and increase the year ; You , who supply the ground with seeds ...
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... thou propitious , Cæsar ! guide my course , And to my bold endeavours add thy force : Pity the poet's and the ploughman's cares ; Interest thy greatness in our mean affairs , And use thyself betimes to hear and grant our prayers . While ...
... thou propitious , Cæsar ! guide my course , And to my bold endeavours add thy force : Pity the poet's and the ploughman's cares ; Interest thy greatness in our mean affairs , And use thyself betimes to hear and grant our prayers . While ...
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... thou shalt foresee the following day , Nor shall a starry night thy hopes betray . When first the moon appears , if then she shrouds Her silver crescent tipped with sable clouds , Conclude she bodes a tempest on the main , And brews for ...
... thou shalt foresee the following day , Nor shall a starry night thy hopes betray . When first the moon appears , if then she shrouds Her silver crescent tipped with sable clouds , Conclude she bodes a tempest on the main , And brews for ...
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... Thou father Romulus , and mother Earth , Goddess unmoved ! whose guardian arms extend O'er Tuscan Tyber's course , and Roman towers de- fend ; With youthful Cæsar your joint powers engage , Nor hinder him to save the sinking age . 2 O ...
... Thou father Romulus , and mother Earth , Goddess unmoved ! whose guardian arms extend O'er Tuscan Tyber's course , and Roman towers de- fend ; With youthful Cæsar your joint powers engage , Nor hinder him to save the sinking age . 2 O ...
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Page 421 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise: But, Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, « To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free: These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
Page 69 - 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 170 - But when she had made all these advances, it was still in his power to have refused them. After the intrigue of the cave, call it marriage, or enjoyment only, he was no longer free to take or leave ; he had accepted the favour, and was obliged to be constant, if he would be grateful.
Page 77 - Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round ; His chine is double ; starting with a bound He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground. Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow; He bears his rider headlong on the foe.
Page 107 - That bees have portions of ethereal thought — Endued with particles of heavenly fires ; For God the whole created mass inspires. Through heaven, and earth, and ocean's depth, he throws His influence round, and kindles as he goes. Hence flocks, and herds, and men, and beasts, and fowls, With breath are...
Page 399 - Just in the gate, and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, (Forms terrible to view) their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses, and unfolds her snakes.
Page 41 - 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.
Page 24 - After this particular account of the beauties in the Georgics, I should, in the next place, endeavour to point out its imperfections, if it has any. But, though I think there are some few parts in it that are not so beautiful as the rest, I shall not presume to name them, as rather suspecting my own judgement, than I can believe a fault to be in that poem, which lay so long under Virgil's correction, and had his last hand put to it.
Page 137 - I submit my opinion to your judgment, who are better qualified than any man I know to decide this controversy. You come, my lord, instructed in the cause, and needed not that I should open it. Your "Essay of Poetry...
Page 351 - tis doubly to be dead! Yet ev'n this death with pleasure I receive: On any terms, 'tis better than to live. These flames, from far, may the false Trojan view; These boding omens his base flight pursue!