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... passage , it is not made to shine in poetry : all that can be done is to give it numbers , and endeavour to set the particulars in a distinct view . But , if we take it in another light , and as a piece of learning , it is valuable for ...
... passage , it is not made to shine in poetry : all that can be done is to give it numbers , and endeavour to set the particulars in a distinct view . But , if we take it in another light , and as a piece of learning , it is valuable for ...
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... passage , he refers the act to Jupiter , while in Il . xviii . 463–472 , he represents the infant Vulcan as odious to his mother Juno from his personal deformity , and as being conse- quently precipitated by that goddess into the ocean ...
... passage , he refers the act to Jupiter , while in Il . xviii . 463–472 , he represents the infant Vulcan as odious to his mother Juno from his personal deformity , and as being conse- quently precipitated by that goddess into the ocean ...
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... from their having inspired Theo- critus , a native of Sicily , whom the Roman poet has closely imitated in his pastorals . THESPIADES , from Thespia , a town of Boeotia . ILIA D. BOOK II . 1. ] This passage is ILIAD . 67 BOOK I.
... from their having inspired Theo- critus , a native of Sicily , whom the Roman poet has closely imitated in his pastorals . THESPIADES , from Thespia , a town of Boeotia . ILIA D. BOOK II . 1. ] This passage is ILIAD . 67 BOOK I.
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... passage is imitated En . iv . 757 . 9. - Dream . ] In this passage Homer personifies dreams , which he ascribes to Jove , as the author of all things ; Euripides to Earth : " Hail , reverend Earth , from whose prolific womb sable ...
... passage is imitated En . iv . 757 . 9. - Dream . ] In this passage Homer personifies dreams , which he ascribes to Jove , as the author of all things ; Euripides to Earth : " Hail , reverend Earth , from whose prolific womb sable ...
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... passage gives me occasion to animadvert upon a computation of the number of the Trojans , which the learned Angelus Polition has offered in his preface to Homer . He thinks they were 50,000 , without the auxiliaries , from the ...
... passage gives me occasion to animadvert upon a computation of the number of the Trojans , which the learned Angelus Polition has offered in his preface to Homer . He thinks they were 50,000 , without the auxiliaries , from the ...
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Page 418 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal : yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still bark'd and howl'd Within unseen.
Page 433 - With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 439 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her wat'ry labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Page 500 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 426 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view! Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Page 287 - Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
Page 490 - We find, however, that he has interwoven, in the course of his fable, the principal particulars, which were generally believed among the Romans, of jEneas's voyage and settlement in Italy.
Page 420 - And fuelled entrails thence conceiving fire, Sublimed* with mineral fury, aid the winds, And leave a singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke: such resting found the sole Of unblest feet.
Page 308 - Circe's island fell: (Who knows not Circe The daughter of the sun? whose charmed cup "Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine) This Nymph that gaz'd upon his clust'ring locks,.
Page 449 - It was the part of the Patron to advise and to defend his client, to assist him with his interest and •substance, in short to do every thing for him that a parent uses to do for his children. The Client was obliged to pay all kind of respect to his patron, and to serve him with his life and fortune in any extremity, Dionys.