The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's VirgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... woods and meadows . They feem to me to reprefent our poet betwixt a farmer and a courtier , when he left Mantua for Rome , and dreffed himself in his best habit to appear before his Patron : In Patron fomewhat too fine for the place ...
... woods and meadows . They feem to me to reprefent our poet betwixt a farmer and a courtier , when he left Mantua for Rome , and dreffed himself in his best habit to appear before his Patron : In Patron fomewhat too fine for the place ...
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... ' unhappy fhepherd fwain , The fair Alexis lov'd , but lov'd in vain : And underneath the beechen fhade , alone , Thus to the woods and mountains made his moan . 15 * Is this , unkind Alexis , my reward 4 Is 26 DRYDEN'S VIRGIL . Alexis.
... ' unhappy fhepherd fwain , The fair Alexis lov'd , but lov'd in vain : And underneath the beechen fhade , alone , Thus to the woods and mountains made his moan . 15 * Is this , unkind Alexis , my reward 4 Is 26 DRYDEN'S VIRGIL . Alexis.
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... woods have left the skies . And godlike Paris in th ' Idean grove , To Priam's wealth preferr'd Oenone's love . In cities which fhe built , let Pallas reign ; Towers are for gods , but forefts for the fwain . The greedy lionefs the wolf ...
... woods have left the skies . And godlike Paris in th ' Idean grove , To Priam's wealth preferr'd Oenone's love . In cities which fhe built , let Pallas reign ; Towers are for gods , but forefts for the fwain . The greedy lionefs the wolf ...
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... wood ; 55 Both by divine Alcimedon were made ; To neither of them yet the lip is laid ; The ivy's ftem , its fruit , its foliage , lurk In various fhapes around the curious work . Two figures on the fides emboss'd appear ; Conon , and ...
... wood ; 55 Both by divine Alcimedon were made ; To neither of them yet the lip is laid ; The ivy's ftem , its fruit , its foliage , lurk In various fhapes around the curious work . Two figures on the fides emboss'd appear ; Conon , and ...
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... wood the fame , from the fame hand they come : The kimbo handles feem with bears - foot carv'd ; And never yet to table have been ferv'd : Where Orpheus on his lyre laments his love , · With beasts encompass'd , and a dancing grove ...
... wood the fame , from the fame hand they come : The kimbo handles feem with bears - foot carv'd ; And never yet to table have been ferv'd : Where Orpheus on his lyre laments his love , · With beasts encompass'd , and a dancing grove ...
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Page 348 - All were attentive to the godlike man, When from his lofty couch he thus began: 'Great queen, what you command me to relate, Renews the sad remembrance of our fate: An empire from its old foundations rent, And...
Page 181 - Yet, labouring well his little spot of ground, Some scattering potherbs here and there he found, Which cultivated with his daily care, And bruised with vervain, were his frugal fare.
Page 301 - But every man cannot distinguish between pedantry and poetry: every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin, and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom: after this, he ought to take the opinion of judicious friends, such as are learned in both languages: and, lastly, since no man...
Page 288 - ... yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense (as they may by reading better books, and by...
Page 292 - He studies brevity more than any other poet : but he had the advantage of a language wherein much may be comprehended in a little space.
Page 298 - What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with another book ? I had certainly been reduced to pay the public in hammered money, for want of milled...
Page 373 - Go thou from me to fate, And to my father my foul deeds relate. Now die!
Page 51 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball. The tender soil then, stiff'ning by degrees, Shut from the bounded earth the bounding seas.
Page 143 - Or, stript for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil, And watches with a trip his foe to foil. Such was the life the frugal Sabines led; So Remus and his brother god were bred: From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose, And this rude life our homely fathers chose.
Page 340 - And sumptuous feasts are made in splendid halls : On Tyrian carpets, richly wrought, they dine; With loads of massy plate the sideboards shine, And antique vases, all...