 | Virgil - 1819
...passages, which he had translated from Theocritus : and here he has bound them into a nosegay. GEORGIC 1. The poetry of this book is more sublime than any part...if I have any taste. And if ever I have copied his majestic style, it is here. The complement he makes Augustus almost in the beginning, is ill imitated... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1819
...sing." Quo sidere.~] This expression is тегу poetical. Dryden has debased it by translating it, • when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn: And lolmi to relise on elms the teeming vine. And yet in the essay on the Georgicks, prefixed to Dryden's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
...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 aplenteous harvest to do here... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820
...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 a plenteous harvest to do here ?... | |
 | British poets - 1822
...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...kine; 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. VOL. III. L Ye deities !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823
...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 a plenteous harvest to do here ?... | |
 | Virgil - 1825
...all with a supplication to the gods for the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of Rome. \VliAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...sow the corn ; The care of sheep, of oxen, and of June ; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine ; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, 5 I sing,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...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 a plenteous harvest to do here ?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 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 a plenteous harvest to do here?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835
...before the first georgic, and of his poetry, by annexing his own version. Ver. 1. What make: a plenteons harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn. " It's unZucfcy,they say, to stumble at the threshold; but what has a plenteous harvest to do here... | |
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What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn; The care of sheep, of oxen, and of kine, 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. 
