The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Том 1R.J. Dodsley, 1763 |
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... in the Warmth of early Youth , he framed a noble Defign , and boldly intended to write a Poem on the Wars of Rome ; but after fome Attempts , he was was difcouraged from proceeding , by the Rough- nefs and 4 The LIFE of VIRGIL .
... in the Warmth of early Youth , he framed a noble Defign , and boldly intended to write a Poem on the Wars of Rome ; but after fome Attempts , he was was difcouraged from proceeding , by the Rough- nefs and 4 The LIFE of VIRGIL .
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... youth beheld , for whom fhall rife 55 Each year my votive incenfe to the kies . him to call it fometimes Rome , and fometimes Amaryllje ? 2. He diftinguishes Galatea from Mantua alfo ; when he fays , that whilft he was a flave to ...
... youth beheld , for whom fhall rife 55 Each year my votive incenfe to the kies . him to call it fometimes Rome , and fometimes Amaryllje ? 2. He diftinguishes Galatea from Mantua alfo ; when he fays , that whilft he was a flave to ...
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... youth , named Alexis , is here introduced , uttering thofe na- tural and bitter complaints , that disappointed love is fo apt to fuggeft . His fears , reproaches , jealoufies , and pains , are painted in the most glowing colours . And ...
... youth , named Alexis , is here introduced , uttering thofe na- tural and bitter complaints , that disappointed love is fo apt to fuggeft . His fears , reproaches , jealoufies , and pains , are painted in the most glowing colours . And ...
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... youth , Unmindful of my verfe , my vows , and truth ? Still , dear Alexis , from my paffion fly ? Unheard and unregarded muft I die ? Now flocks in cooling fhades avoid the heats , And the green lizard to his brake retreats , Now ...
... youth , Unmindful of my verfe , my vows , and truth ? Still , dear Alexis , from my paffion fly ? Unheard and unregarded muft I die ? Now flocks in cooling fhades avoid the heats , And the green lizard to his brake retreats , Now ...
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... youths fhould above " all things learn the art of carving , that is , of making de- " figns in box ; and that this art should be ranked among the " firft of the liberal ones . He thought the laws of honour were violated , if any but ...
... youths fhould above " all things learn the art of carving , that is , of making de- " figns in box ; and that this art should be ranked among the " firft of the liberal ones . He thought the laws of honour were violated , if any but ...
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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...