The Argonautics, tr. into Engl. verse with notes by W. Preston, Band 3 |
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... admirable library and museum ; and , at the same time , called out , by a variety of contending and powerful motives , and interests . At the court of Alexandria , avarice was attracted , and satiated , to its utmost wish , by the noble ...
... admirable library and museum ; and , at the same time , called out , by a variety of contending and powerful motives , and interests . At the court of Alexandria , avarice was attracted , and satiated , to its utmost wish , by the noble ...
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... admiration , which were paid him by the Rhodians , our poet remained many years . He did not return to Alexandria , until after Callimachus had paid the debt of nature , and left him , without a rival and competitor . It should seem ...
... admiration , which were paid him by the Rhodians , our poet remained many years . He did not return to Alexandria , until after Callimachus had paid the debt of nature , and left him , without a rival and competitor . It should seem ...
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... admirable writer , we have only to regret , that they are not more copious , and satisfactory ; but the imitation of Virgil , and the intrinsic beauties of his poem , will for ever remain the most perfect and glorious monument of his ...
... admirable writer , we have only to regret , that they are not more copious , and satisfactory ; but the imitation of Virgil , and the intrinsic beauties of his poem , will for ever remain the most perfect and glorious monument of his ...
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... admiration- * Hesiod , Op . et Dier . 1. 155 . næum , + Salmasius , in Solinum , p . 597. - Casaub . in Athe- Lib . VII . 4 . -And Heyne , Excursus I. ad Lib . II . Æneid . - And De Fontibus Diodori Bipontine , edit . of that author ...
... admiration- * Hesiod , Op . et Dier . 1. 155 . næum , + Salmasius , in Solinum , p . 597. - Casaub . in Athe- Lib . VII . 4 . -And Heyne , Excursus I. ad Lib . II . Æneid . - And De Fontibus Diodori Bipontine , edit . of that author ...
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... admiration . - Little versed in natural causes , men are disposed to magnify into pro- digies those appearances , for which they are unable to account . The love of the marvellous predominates ; and this propensity will be perpetually ...
... admiration . - Little versed in natural causes , men are disposed to magnify into pro- digies those appearances , for which they are unable to account . The love of the marvellous predominates ; and this propensity will be perpetually ...
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Seite 205 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Seite 231 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 133 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Seite 205 - Ipsae lacte domum referent distenta capellae ubera, nee magnos metuent armenta leones ; ipsa tibi blandos fundent cunabula flores. Occidet et serpens, et fallax herba veneni occidet ; Assyrium vulgo nascetur amomum.
Seite 276 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs.
Seite 193 - Nox erat, et terras animalia fessa per omnes Alituum pecudumque genus sopor altus habebat: Cum pater in ripa gelidique sub aetheris axe Aeneas, tristi turbatus pectora bello, Procubuit, seramque dedit per membra quietem.
Seite 219 - ... evidently, affect us not in proportion to those of Homer. His characters of valour are much alike : even that of Turnus...
Seite 192 - Tempus erat, quo prima quies mortalibus aegris incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit.
Seite 120 - ... and generosity of private persons afforded. The same spirit of enterprise which had prompted so many gentlemen to take arms in defence of the oppressed pilgrims in Palestine, incited others to declare themselves the patrons and avengers of injured innocence at home. When the final reduction of the Holy Land under the dominion of Infidels put an end to these foreign expeditions, the latter was the only employment left for the activity and courage of adventurers. To check the insolence of overgrown...
Seite 197 - Alma parens, confessa deam, qualisque videri Caelicolis et quanta solet ; dextraque prehensum Continuit, roseoque haec insuper addidit ore: 'Nate, quis indomitas tantus dolor excitat iras?