The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 8
... mother ; both count the flock twice a day , and one of them the kids too . But I will make what you will yourself own to be a greater venture , as you are minded to play so mad a game . I will stake a pair of cups of beechwood , the em ...
... mother ; both count the flock twice a day , and one of them the kids too . But I will make what you will yourself own to be a greater venture , as you are minded to play so mad a game . I will stake a pair of cups of beechwood , the em ...
Page 13
... mother - that mother has had ten months of tedious sickness and loathing . Begin , sweet child - the babe on whom never parent smiled , never grew to deserve the table of a god or the bed of a goddess ! ECLOGUE V. DAPHNIS . Me . Why not ...
... mother - that mother has had ten months of tedious sickness and loathing . Begin , sweet child - the babe on whom never parent smiled , never grew to deserve the table of a god or the bed of a goddess ! ECLOGUE V. DAPHNIS . Me . Why not ...
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... mother , clasping her son's piteous corpse , is crying out on the cruelty of the gods and the stars , as only a mother can . None were there in those dreary days , Daphnis , to feed the oxen , and drive them down to the cool streams ...
... mother , clasping her son's piteous corpse , is crying out on the cruelty of the gods and the stars , as only a mother can . None were there in those dreary days , Daphnis , to feed the oxen , and drive them down to the cool streams ...
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... mother - my twelfth year had just bidden me enter on it . I could just reach from the ground to the boughs that ... mother to embrue her hands in her children's blood ; hard too was thy heart , mother . Was the mother's heart harder , or ...
... mother - my twelfth year had just bidden me enter on it . I could just reach from the ground to the boughs that ... mother to embrue her hands in her children's blood ; hard too was thy heart , mother . Was the mother's heart harder , or ...
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... mother Ceres ; if it was by your bounty that Earth changed the acorn of Chaonia for the plump well - favoured corn - ear , and found the grape where- with to temper her draught of Achelous : you too , Fauns , the countryman's propitious ...
... mother Ceres ; if it was by your bounty that Earth changed the acorn of Chaonia for the plump well - favoured corn - ear , and found the grape where- with to temper her draught of Achelous : you too , Fauns , the countryman's propitious ...
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