 | John Wesley Etheridge - 1858 - 439 ページ
...commentary on the page of nature before him, as well as in the words of the anuotator in the margin. " What makes a plenteous harvest ; when to turn The...; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine ; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, I sing, Mtccenaa, and I sing to thee." t * Autobiography. t Georgica,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859
...up all wil i 1 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 hirth and genius of the frugal hee, I sing, Miecenas, and I sing to thee. Ye deities ! who fields and... | |
 | John Wesley Etheridge - 1859 - 487 ページ
...as in the words of the annotator in the margin. " What makes a plenteous harvest ; when to turn Tho fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn ; The care...; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine ; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, I sing, Msecenaa, and 1 sing to thee.' * "In this most advantageous... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 330 ページ
...insects of all kinds be adopted early in the season? Because, when they are "allowed to be developed to " When to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the...kine ; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine."— DRYDEN. maturity, they PROPAGATE BY EGGS IN SUCH ABUNDANCE, that it is almost impossible to keep them... | |
 | 1861
...of the four poems. What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful noil, and when to POW the corn ¡ The care of sheep, of oxen, and of kine...; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine ; The birth and geniun of the frugal bee, I ting, Mœcenas, and I eing to thee. • * * * * While yet the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 445 ページ
...before the first Georgie, and of his poetry, by annexing his own version : Ver. I . " What makes S plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the com. It's uulucky, they say, to stumble at the threshold; but what has a plenteous harvest to do here?... | |
 | Virgil - 1870
...<•' R.-me. "\YHAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to lun 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 ; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, I sing, Maecenas, and I sing to thee. Ye deities ! who fields and... | |
 | Catherine Ann White - 1877 - 431 ページ
...is about to treat, and the dedication of the whole to his generous patron : " What makes a pleasant harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when...; 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." The Georgics contain the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879
...remarks on the invocation before the first ' Georgic,' and of his poetry, by annexing his own version. ' What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn.' — Ver. I. ' It's unlucky, they say, to stumble at the threshold, but what has a plenteous harvest... | |
 | James Copner - 1885 - 375 ページ
...topics he is about to discuss in an opening passage which is thus rendered by the poet Dryden : — " 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." And certainly he sings about... | |
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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. 
