The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Том 1 |
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ancient appears Auguſtus bear beautiful bees Begin beneath beſt called common death deep deſcription earth Eclogue feed fields fire firſt flocks flow force fruits Georgics give gods ground groves hand hath head Hence himſelf imagine Italy kind lands laſt leaves light lines lively manner Martyn mean MENALCAS mentioned mind moſt mountains muſt nature o'er obſerved once original particularly paſſage perhaps perſon plains plant poem poet poetical poetry race rage riſe rivers Roman Rome ſame ſays ſee ſeems Servius ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeaks ſpring ſtill ſtrains ſtreams ſubject ſuch ſwains thee theſe things thoſe thou thought thro toil tranſlation trees turn uſed verſe vines Virgil whole whoſe wild winds woods writer young youth
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Страница 78 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Страница 35 - ... disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the Heavens ; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the Gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation.
Страница 32 - But ah! Maecenas is yclad in clay, And great Augustus long ago is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead...
Страница 319 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Страница 302 - Thus does the old gentleman give himself up to a loose kind of tattle, rather than endeavour after a just poetical description.
Страница 236 - And through his airy hall the loud misrule Of driving tempest is for ever heard: Here the grim tyrant meditates his wrath; Here arms his winds with all-subduing frost; Moulds his fierce hail, and treasures up his snows. With which he now oppresses half the globe.
Страница 328 - Po In angry waves ; Euphrates hence devolves A mighty flood to water half the east ; And there in gothic solitude reclin'd, The cheerless Tanais pours his hoary. urn.
Страница 5 - A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t' examine every part he came, —Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Страница 331 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...