 | Patrick Brydone - 1817 - 552 страници
...these authorities, if you please you may add that of Milton, who compares it to paradise itself: Nor that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered If you want to have a fuller account of this place, you will find it in Cicero's pleadings against... | |
 | 1818 - 628 страници
...— but in how much fewer words, and in what a different manner, does Milton tell the same story ! " That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dii Was gather'd." We shall only add another extract, which approaches the confines of sublimity. The... | |
 | 1818 - 638 страници
...words, and in what a different manner, does Milton tell the same story i " That fair field Of Knna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd." We shall only add another extract, which approaches the confines of sublimity. The idea... | |
 | 1836 - 790 страници
...interior of the island, the " Umbelicus Siciliae," as Cicero calls it ; that " fair field of Euna," where — " Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered." Thence our tourist traverses the desolate Leontine Fields, in his way to Syracuse ; and, after a careful... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 страници
...leave*,, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces aud the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not gather'd, wliich cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world j nor that sweet grove Of Daphne... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 страници
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis 270 Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her thro' the world ; nor that sweet grove... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1820 - 586 страници
...this spot also is seen, to great advantage, the beautiful circular lake, where, as the poet sings, " Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered t." Its dark surrounding woods are vanished from this fair field of Enna, together with those flowers... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 страници
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet grove Of Daphne... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 396 страници
...scarcely be found in the Greek poetry. P. 155, 1. 25. She once amid those golden meadows play'd. • not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...flowers Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd ; which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world. Paradise Lust, bv IDYLLITJM... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 страници
...Heaven, and Earth successively. The subject is the subjugation of Dis by Cupid, and its chief scene that fair field of Enna, ' where Proserpine, gathering flowers, Herself, a fairer flower, by gloomy Dits Was gathered.' The commencement is almost comic. The Lord of Erebus, the high sheriff of Shadows... | |
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Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world... 
