| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 ページ
...the invocation before the first Georgic ; and of his poetry, by annexing his own version. Ver. 1. " What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn. " It 's unlucky, they say, to stumble at the threshold: but what has plenteous harvest to do here ?... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 ページ
...invocation before before the first Georgick, and of his poetry, by annexing his own version. Ver. l. " What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn " The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn. " It's unlucky, they say, to stumble at the threshold t ".but what has a plenteous harvest to do here... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 ページ
...the safety of Augustus, aud the preservation of Rome. WHAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to tura The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn; The care of sheep, of oxen, andofkiue; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, 1 sing,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 ページ
...on the invocation before the first Gcorgic ; and of his poetry, by annexing his own version. Ver. 1. What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn. " It's unlucky, they say, to stumble at the threshold ; but what' has a plenteous harvest to do here... | |
| 1813 - 432 ページ
...supplication to the godl fur the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of RODiC. WHAT makes a plenteons harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when...sheep, of oxen, and of kine ; And how to raise on ehus the teeming vine .. The hirth and genins of the frugal bee, I sing, Maecenas, and I sing to thee.... | |
| Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts - 1814 - 282 ページ
...which is not frequently ex» celled; Of them it may be said as of the Georgicks, that they teach " What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...kine, And how to raise on elms the teeming vine." His agricultural essays are all of them useful, but those especially which teach, what make a filenteous... | |
| Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts - 1814 - 282 ページ
...topics, which is not frequently excelled. Of them it may be said as of the Georgicks, that they .teach " What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the com : The care of sheep, of oxen and of kine, And how to raise on elms the teeming vine." His agricultural... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 ページ
...the invocation before the first Georgick, and of his poetry, by annexing his own version. Ver. 1. " What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn " The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn. " It's unlucky, they say, to stumble at the threshold : " but what has & plenteous harvest to do here?... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 ページ
...the invocation before the first Georgic ; and of his poetry, by annexing his own version. Ver. 1. " What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn " The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn. " not pretend to prescribe rules for that which depend* " not on the husbandman's care, but the disposition... | |
| Virgil - 1819 - 488 ページ
...shuts up all with a supplication to the gods for the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of Rome. WHAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine ; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, I sing, Maecenas, and I sing to thee. Ye deities ! who fields and... | |
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