The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's VirgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... thou couldft a verse indite : To think his fancy to defcribe is vain , Since nothing can discover light , but light . X. ' Tis want of genius that does more deny : ' Tis fear my praise should make your glory lefs . And therefore , like ...
... thou couldft a verse indite : To think his fancy to defcribe is vain , Since nothing can discover light , but light . X. ' Tis want of genius that does more deny : ' Tis fear my praise should make your glory lefs . And therefore , like ...
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... thou couldst a verse indite : To think his fancy to describe is vain , Since nothing can discover light , but light . X. Tis want of genius that does more deny : ' Tis fear my praise should make your glory less . And therefore , like ...
... thou couldst a verse indite : To think his fancy to describe is vain , Since nothing can discover light , but light . X. Tis want of genius that does more deny : ' Tis fear my praise should make your glory less . And therefore , like ...
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... thou art heavenly fair . Truft not too much to that enchanting face ; Beauty's a charm , but foon the charm will pass : 20 White lilies lie neglected on the plain , While dusky hyacinths for use remain . My paffion is thy fcorn : nor ...
... thou art heavenly fair . Truft not too much to that enchanting face ; Beauty's a charm , but foon the charm will pass : 20 White lilies lie neglected on the plain , While dusky hyacinths for use remain . My paffion is thy fcorn : nor ...
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... thou deferv'ft it after me . His eyes Amyntas durft not upward lift , 35 40 . 45 For much he grudg'd the praife , but more the gift . 50 Besides two kids that in the valley ftray'd , I found by chance , and to my fold convey'd . They ...
... thou deferv'ft it after me . His eyes Amyntas durft not upward lift , 35 40 . 45 For much he grudg'd the praife , but more the gift . 50 Besides two kids that in the valley ftray'd , I found by chance , and to my fold convey'd . They ...
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... thou offer all thy little store , Will rich Iolus yield , but offer more . 80 What have I done to name that wealthy fwain , So powerful are his prefents , mine fo mean ! The boar amidst my crystal streams I bring ; And fouthern winds to ...
... thou offer all thy little store , Will rich Iolus yield , but offer more . 80 What have I done to name that wealthy fwain , So powerful are his prefents , mine fo mean ! The boar amidst my crystal streams I bring ; And fouthern winds to ...
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Æneas Æneid Æneis againſt Amyntas arms Auguftus becauſe beſt betwixt Cæfar Carthage cauſe chearful courſe crown'd Daphnis defcended defign defire Dido earth Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fame fate fear feas fecret fecure feem fenfe fhade fhall fhepherd fhew fhore fide fight fing fire firft firſt flain flocks flood foes foil fome fong fpring ftreams fubject fuch fummer fure fwain fweet fword Georgic goddeſs gods Grecian ground heaven hero himſelf honour Ilioneus Jupiter labour laft laſt leaſt lefs Lordſhip mafter moſt Mufe muft muſt night numbers nymphs o'er obferved Ovid plain pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet praiſe prefent Priam promiſe purſue rage raiſe reafon reft reſt reſtrain rifing Segrais ſhall ſhe ſhould ſkies ſpace ſtand ſtate thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou tranflation trees Trojan Troy Turnus Tyrian uſe verfe verſe vines Virgil whofe whoſe winds woods youth
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348 ページ - All were attentive to the godlike man, When from his lofty couch he thus began: 'Great queen, what you command me to relate, Renews the sad remembrance of our fate: An empire from its old foundations rent, And...
181 ページ - Yet, labouring well his little spot of ground, Some scattering potherbs here and there he found, Which cultivated with his daily care, And bruised with vervain, were his frugal fare.
301 ページ - But every man cannot distinguish between pedantry and poetry: every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin, and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom: after this, he ought to take the opinion of judicious friends, such as are learned in both languages: and, lastly, since no man...
288 ページ - ... yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense (as they may by reading better books, and by...
292 ページ - He studies brevity more than any other poet : but he had the advantage of a language wherein much may be comprehended in a little space.
298 ページ - What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with another book ? I had certainly been reduced to pay the public in hammered money, for want of milled...
373 ページ - Go thou from me to fate, And to my father my foul deeds relate. Now die!
51 ページ - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball. The tender soil then, stiff'ning by degrees, Shut from the bounded earth the bounding seas.
143 ページ - Or, stript for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil, And watches with a trip his foe to foil. Such was the life the frugal Sabines led; So Remus and his brother god were bred: From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose, And this rude life our homely fathers chose.
340 ページ - And sumptuous feasts are made in splendid halls : On Tyrian carpets, richly wrought, they dine; With loads of massy plate the sideboards shine, And antique vases, all...