The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 11
... kings written on them , and have Phyllis all to yourself . P. I am not the man to settle a difference like this between you . You deserve the heifer , and so does he ; and every one who shall either mistrust love's sweets or taste its ...
... kings written on them , and have Phyllis all to yourself . P. I am not the man to settle a difference like this between you . You deserve the heifer , and so does he ; and every one who shall either mistrust love's sweets or taste its ...
Page 17
... kings and battles , the Cynthian god touched my ear , and appealed to my memory . It is a shepherd's part , Tityrus , that the sheep that he feeds should be fat , and the songs that he sings thin . ' So now I - for there will be enough ...
... kings and battles , the Cynthian god touched my ear , and appealed to my memory . It is a shepherd's part , Tityrus , that the sheep that he feeds should be fat , and the songs that he sings thin . ' So now I - for there will be enough ...
Page 22
... king , shouldst visit me often and often , the ash would soon bow to thee in the woods , the pine in the gardens . M. So much I remember , and how Thyrsis failed in the match . From that day forward it is all Corydon , Corydon with us ...
... king , shouldst visit me often and often , the ash would soon bow to thee in the woods , the pine in the gardens . M. So much I remember , and how Thyrsis failed in the match . From that day forward it is all Corydon , Corydon with us ...
Page 34
... king , nor mayest thou ever feel so monstrous an ambition ; though Greece see charms in her Elysian fields , and Pro- serpine , spite of her mother's journey , refuse to follow her back to earth - vouchsafe me a smooth course , and ...
... king , nor mayest thou ever feel so monstrous an ambition ; though Greece see charms in her Elysian fields , and Pro- serpine , spite of her mother's journey , refuse to follow her back to earth - vouchsafe me a smooth course , and ...
Page 38
... king the unkindly darnel and the unfruitful oat . So , unless your rake is ever ready to exterminate weeds , your shout to scare away birds , your hook to restrain the shade which darkens the land , and your prayers to call down rain ...
... king the unkindly darnel and the unfruitful oat . So , unless your rake is ever ready to exterminate weeds , your shout to scare away birds , your hook to restrain the shade which darkens the land , and your prayers to call down rain ...
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