Virgil: The EcloguesValpy, 1830 |
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Achilles Æneas Æneid ancient arms Augustus Augustus Cæsar Bacchus bear bees behold beneath betwixt breathe cæsura called Carthage Columella courser Creüsa crown'd Daphnis death deep Dido divine earth Eclogue Eneid ev'ry eyes fame fate father fear fire flame flocks flood foes fruit Georgics give goddess gods golden Grecian grove heav'n herds hero Homer honor imitate Italy Jove Julius Cæsar Juno Jupiter king labor land light Lille lordship Mantua Martyn mead Mopsus mountain night numbers nymphs o'er Ovid plain plants Pliny plough poem poet poetry Pollio pow'r praise Priam queen race Roman Rome round sacred says Segrais shade shepherds shore sire skies soil song spread spring Stawell steed strain streams swain sweet swell tempests thee Theocritus Thessaly thou Tityrus toil tow'rs translation trees Trojan Troy Turnus Tyrian verse vines Virgil wave whence wild winds wine woes wood words wound
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126 ページ - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
209 ページ - Horace : • si plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit, Aut humana parum cavit natura...
250 ページ - And from the hollow cloud his friends surveys, Impatient till they told their present state, And where they left their ships, and what their fate, And why they came, and what was their request; For these were sent...
191 ページ - Love has nothing of his own ; he borrows all from a greater master in his own profession, and, which is worse, improves nothing which he finds : nature fails him, and being forced to his old shift, he has recourse to witticism. This passes, indeed, with his soft admirers, and gives him the preference to Virgil in their esteem.
71 ページ - Along the woods, along the moorish fens, Sighs the sad genius of the coming storm; And up among the loose disjointed cliffs And fractured mountains wild, the brawling brook And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, Resounding long in listening fancy's ear.
273 ページ - Thus, when a flood of fire by wind is borne, Crackling it rolls, and mows the standing corn; Or deluges, descending on the plains, Sweep o'er the yellow year, destroy the pains Of...
164 ページ - Chemical medicines are observed to relieve oftener than to cure ; for it is the nature of spirits to make swift impressions, but not deep. Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly compare an epic poem, have more of body in them ; they work by their substance and their weight.
269 ページ - Their flaming crests above the waves they show; Their bellies seem to burn the seas below; Their speckled tails advance to steer their course, And on the sounding shore the flying billows force.
180 ページ - But, knowing that piety alone comprehends the whole duty of man towards the gods, towards his country, and towards his relations, he judged, that this ought to be his first character, •whom he would set for a pattern of perfection. In reality, they who believe, that the praises which arise from...
241 ページ - The righteous laws, and fraud and force restrain. Janus himself before his fane shall wait, And keep the dreadful issues of his gate, With bolts and iron bars: within remains Imprison'd fury, bound in brazen chains: High on a trophy rais'd of useless arms He sits, and threats the world with vain alarms.