 | 1888
...Affairs. By David Young. From forty years' experience, " Long practice has a sure improvement found. What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...soil, and when to sow the corn, The care of sheep, horses, oxen, and of kine?" Virg. Georg. Montrose, Printed in Mrs. Watt's Office, High Street, 1828.... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1889 - 498 ページ
...appetite of the flattered, our readers may be left to guess each one for himself. Here are the lines : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1056 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...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1056 ページ
...shuts up all with a supplication to the gods for the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of Home. pains, An r kme, And how to raise on elms the teeming vine; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, I sing, Mfficenas,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1056 ページ
...Theocritus, and here he has bound them into a nosegay. GEOROIC I. The poetry of this book is more lublime than any part of Virgil, if I have any taste. And if ever 1 have copied his majestic •tyle, 'tis here. The compliment he makes Augustus, almost in the beginning,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 300 ページ
...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 com.' — Var. I. ' It's unlucky, they say, to stumble at the threshold, but what has a plenteous harvest... | |
 | Clarence Arthur Coan - 1917 - 120 ページ
...that he should sing of nature in her purity, her simplicity and her bounty, and tell his Maecenas, " 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 Mascenas, and I sing to thee." But we have wandered far... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - 1919 - 251 ページ
...twelfth: for in these I think I have succeeded best." And again in a note on the first Georgic, he says, "The poetry of this book is more sublime than any...if I have any taste: and if ever I have copied his majestic style, it is here." It is fair, therefore, to test Dryden's translations by passages from... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 356 ページ
...pecori, apibus quanta experientia parcis, hinc canere incipiam. Dryden catches the manner to perfection: What makes a plenteous Harvest, when to turn The fruitful Soil, and when to sowe the Corn; The Care of Sheep, of Oxen, and of Kine; And how to raise on Elms the teeming Vine:... | |
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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. 
