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... rank luxuriance - He now mentions several circumstances pre- judicial to agriculture , and attributes them to the will of Jove - This remark easily leads to a digression on the golden and silver ages - He then describes the origin of ...
... rank luxuriance - He now mentions several circumstances pre- judicial to agriculture , and attributes them to the will of Jove - This remark easily leads to a digression on the golden and silver ages - He then describes the origin of ...
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... rank luxuriance when the blade Waves level with the ridge its rising shade ; Or who , ' mid doubtful months , and flooding rains , Down the dry sand th ' o'erflowing marshes drains , When oozy rivers far and wide expand , And issuing ...
... rank luxuriance when the blade Waves level with the ridge its rising shade ; Or who , ' mid doubtful months , and flooding rains , Down the dry sand th ' o'erflowing marshes drains , When oozy rivers far and wide expand , And issuing ...
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... rank their various tribes , or name the train . Go , number first th'innumerable sands Whirl'd by the western blast round Libyan lands ; Or tell , when Eurus sweeps th ' Ionian o'er , The multitud'nous waves that lash the shore . Not ...
... rank their various tribes , or name the train . Go , number first th'innumerable sands Whirl'd by the western blast round Libyan lands ; Or tell , when Eurus sweeps th ' Ionian o'er , The multitud'nous waves that lash the shore . Not ...
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... land Cleaves to the touch , and spreads beneath the hand . The humid earth large herbs luxuriant feeds , And with rank wildness . clothes th ' unfaithful meads : 41 % Ne'er may be mine tall blades that proudly tow'r , 44 ...
... land Cleaves to the touch , and spreads beneath the hand . The humid earth large herbs luxuriant feeds , And with rank wildness . clothes th ' unfaithful meads : 41 % Ne'er may be mine tall blades that proudly tow'r , 44 ...
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... , Spread in free space , and range in open ranks : Yet not the less in measur❜d bounds confine , Square the set vines , and station line by line . 46 GEORGICS ...... BOOK II As when the legion o'er GEORGICS ....... BOOK II . 45.
... , Spread in free space , and range in open ranks : Yet not the less in measur❜d bounds confine , Square the set vines , and station line by line . 46 GEORGICS ...... BOOK II As when the legion o'er GEORGICS ....... BOOK II . 45.
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æther arms ARTHUR MURPHY Bacchus battle Bees bend beneath blast blood bloom boughs bound breathe brood brow burst Cæsar caves cells Ceres Chaonian clouds courser crown'd Cyrene dark deep domes dread Drones Dryads earth Eurus Eurydice faithful band fame feed field fierce fire flame flocks flood flower fruit galbanum gale genial GEORGICS glade glow golden grove heaven herds hive Jesuits Jove labour land leave light limbs load lonely mead native night nymphs o'er o'erflowing olive pale Paraguay plain plants plough poison'd pomp purple Queen race rage realm rear reign repose rich rill rise roll'd round rush Scorpius shade shelter'd shore showers sire soil spread spring steeds streams swain swarms sweets swell tempests thee thou thyme tide Tmolus toil vernal vines Virgil virgin waste wave wild WILLIAM SOTHEBY wind wing'd wings wood wound yield young youth