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With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart , The smiles of nature , and the
charms of art , While proud oppression in her valleys reigns , And tyranny ufurps
her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain The reddening orange
and ...
With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart , The smiles of nature , and the
charms of art , While proud oppression in her valleys reigns , And tyranny ufurps
her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain The reddening orange
and ...
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But now the sun With orient beams had chac'd the dewy night From earth and
heaven ; all nature stood disclos'd .: When looking on the neighbouring woods
we fawo The ghaftly visage of a man unknown , An uncouth feature , meagre ,
pale ...
But now the sun With orient beams had chac'd the dewy night From earth and
heaven ; all nature stood disclos'd .: When looking on the neighbouring woods
we fawo The ghaftly visage of a man unknown , An uncouth feature , meagre ,
pale ...
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... And succour nature , ere it be too late . ” She ceas'd ; for , chok'd with vapours
round her spread , Down to the deepest shades she sunk her head . Jove call ? d
to witness every power above , And ev'n the God , whose son the chariot drove ...
... And succour nature , ere it be too late . ” She ceas'd ; for , chok'd with vapours
round her spread , Down to the deepest shades she sunk her head . Jove call ? d
to witness every power above , And ev'n the God , whose son the chariot drove ...
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Latin Poets are very full of it , especially the worst of them ; for the more correct
use it but sparingly , as indeed the nature of things will feldom afford a just
occasion for it . When any thing we describe has accidentally in it fome quality
that ...
Latin Poets are very full of it , especially the worst of them ; for the more correct
use it but sparingly , as indeed the nature of things will feldom afford a just
occasion for it . When any thing we describe has accidentally in it fome quality
that ...
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Of this nature is that verse , which , perhaps , is the wittiest in Virgil ; “ Attollens
humeris “ famamque et fata nepotum , ” Æn . viii , where he describes Æneas
carrying on his shoulders the reputation and fortunes of his posterity ; which ,
though ...
Of this nature is that verse , which , perhaps , is the wittiest in Virgil ; “ Attollens
humeris “ famamque et fata nepotum , ” Æn . viii , where he describes Æneas
carrying on his shoulders the reputation and fortunes of his posterity ; which ,
though ...
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Страница 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Страница 329 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Страница 330 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Страница 45 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Страница 153 - Who now appear'd but one continu'd wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Страница 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Страница 100 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Страница 210 - Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses...
Страница 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Страница 278 - Rome will rejoice, and cast its eyes on Cato, As on the second of mankind. CATO. No more! I must not think of life on such conditions. DEC. Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, And therefore sets this value on your life: Let him but know the price of Cato's friendship, And name your terms.