The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 52
... frame , and planting them in furrows ; another has buried stocks in the ground , truncheons cleft in four , and stakes sharpened to a point . Some forest - trees yearn for the arch of the depressed layer , and for slips which partake of ...
... frame , and planting them in furrows ; another has buried stocks in the ground , truncheons cleft in four , and stakes sharpened to a point . Some forest - trees yearn for the arch of the depressed layer , and for slips which partake of ...
Page 55
... frame . The tree itself is large , and very like a bay to look at ; nay , if the scent it flings about were not different , a bay it had been . No wound can make it shed its leaves , and the blossom , too , holds fast as few . The Medes ...
... frame . The tree itself is large , and very like a bay to look at ; nay , if the scent it flings about were not different , a bay it had been . No wound can make it shed its leaves , and the blossom , too , holds fast as few . The Medes ...
Page 61
... Nature , penetrates the womb of earth with his fruitful showers and blending his mighty frame with hers gives life to all the embryos within . It is then that the pathless brakes are vocal with the songs BOOK II . 269-337 . 61.
... Nature , penetrates the womb of earth with his fruitful showers and blending his mighty frame with hers gives life to all the embryos within . It is then that the pathless brakes are vocal with the songs BOOK II . 269-337 . 61.
Page 77
... frames , and pushing horn meets pushing horn with loud bellowing , that echoes through the woods and the length of the firmament . Nor , when all is over , are the combatants wont to stall together ; the beaten cham- pion retires to ...
... frames , and pushing horn meets pushing horn with loud bellowing , that echoes through the woods and the length of the firmament . Nor , when all is over , are the combatants wont to stall together ; the beaten cham- pion retires to ...
Page 78
... frame , if but a scent conveys to them the breath they know so well ? No power to check them now has the rider's rein or the lash plied with fury , or rocks and beetling crags , or rivers crossing their path , tearing up mountains and ...
... frame , if but a scent conveys to them the breath they know so well ? No power to check them now has the rider's rein or the lash plied with fury , or rocks and beetling crags , or rivers crossing their path , tearing up mountains and ...
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