The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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... never looked forward to freedom nor attended to my pelf ; though I had many a sheep for sacrifice going out of my folds , and many a rich cream - cheese made for the thankless town , yet my hand used never to come home with a load of ...
... never looked forward to freedom nor attended to my pelf ; though I had many a sheep for sacrifice going out of my folds , and many a rich cream - cheese made for the thankless town , yet my hand used never to come home with a load of ...
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... never fails me either summer or winter . I can sing as Amphion of Dirce sang when calling the flocks home on the Attic Aracynthus . I am not so unsightly either - the other day on the seashore I looked at myself , as the sea was ...
... never fails me either summer or winter . I can sing as Amphion of Dirce sang when calling the flocks home on the Attic Aracynthus . I am not so unsightly either - the other day on the seashore I looked at myself , as the sea was ...
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... never parent smiled , never grew to deserve the table of a god or the bed of a goddess ! ECLOGUE V. DAPHNIS . Me . Why not sit down together , Mopsus , as we happen to have met , both good in our way - you at filling slender reeds with ...
... never parent smiled , never grew to deserve the table of a god or the bed of a goddess ! ECLOGUE V. DAPHNIS . Me . Why not sit down together , Mopsus , as we happen to have met , both good in our way - you at filling slender reeds with ...
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... never got from me - and there was much to love in him , too , in those days — a handsome one , with regular knots and brass about it , Menalcas . ECLOGUE VI . VARUS . First of all , my muse deigned to disport herself in the strains of ...
... never got from me - and there was much to love in him , too , in those days — a handsome one , with regular knots and brass about it , Menalcas . ECLOGUE VI . VARUS . First of all , my muse deigned to disport herself in the strains of ...
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... never so enraptured with Phoebus , nor are Rhodope and Ismarus so entranced by Orpheus . For he began to sing how through the mighty void had been brought together the elements of earth and air and sea and streaming fire all at once ...
... never so enraptured with Phoebus , nor are Rhodope and Ismarus so entranced by Orpheus . For he began to sing how through the mighty void had been brought together the elements of earth and air and sea and streaming fire all at once ...
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