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Page vii
... first Idyllium , will be judged too melancholy for the peace and happiness of that state : the witchcraft made use of in the second , is inconfiftent with piety : in the third , the goatherd wickedly talks of killing himself : the ...
... first Idyllium , will be judged too melancholy for the peace and happiness of that state : the witchcraft made use of in the second , is inconfiftent with piety : in the third , the goatherd wickedly talks of killing himself : the ...
Page xxvi
... a plenty of ore : but a skilful hand * See the note on ver . 383. of the first Georgick . is required to separate the dross from the pure metal is xxvi The PREFACE . : and having now seen this excellence of Virgil, we ...
... a plenty of ore : but a skilful hand * See the note on ver . 383. of the first Georgick . is required to separate the dross from the pure metal is xxvi The PREFACE . : and having now seen this excellence of Virgil, we ...
Page xlii
... first , and afterwards many of the people went over to him . Nay the very Praetors furrendered themselves , and their foldiers to him : so that Cae- far got poffeffion of Rome , without striking a fingle blow . Caefar was now chosen ...
... first , and afterwards many of the people went over to him . Nay the very Praetors furrendered themselves , and their foldiers to him : so that Cae- far got poffeffion of Rome , without striking a fingle blow . Caefar was now chosen ...
Page li
... first , though plainly not the 743 . first in order of time , contains a dialogue between Tityrus and Meliboeus , two shepherds ; the latter of whom represents , in a very pathetical manner , the miseries of those , who were obliged to ...
... first , though plainly not the 743 . first in order of time , contains a dialogue between Tityrus and Meliboeus , two shepherds ; the latter of whom represents , in a very pathetical manner , the miseries of those , who were obliged to ...
Page liv
... first ; and by many gifts and promifes regained them . Furnius was marching with a good body , to the aid of Lucius ; when Caefar fell upon his rear , and obliged him to retreat to Sentia ; whither he did not care to fol- low him that ...
... first ; and by many gifts and promifes regained them . Furnius was marching with a good body , to the aid of Lucius ; when Caefar fell upon his rear , and obliged him to retreat to Sentia ; whither he did not care to fol- low him that ...
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১১ ८८ Aeneid alfo alſo Amyntas ancient anſwers Anthony Apollo atque Auguſtus Bavius becauſe Boeotia Burman Caefar called carmina Catrou cauſe Cerda Corydon CREECH Criticks Damoetas Daphnis deſcribes Dr Trapp Eclogue eſt eſteemed expreffion expreſs faid fame fays feems fignifies fing firſt flowers foldiers fome Galatea Gallus haec himſelf Idyllium Julius Caefar laſt Mantua manufcript Menalcas mentions mihi Moeris moſt Muſes NOTES nunc Nymphs obſerves Ovid Paftoral paſſage perſon Pierius Pliny Poet Pollio preſent quae quam quod reaſon repreſented Roman Rome Ruaeus ſaid ſame ſays ſecond ſeems ſenſe ſerved Servius ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhepherd ſhew ſhould ſome ſon ſpeaks ſpoken ſpring ſtory ſubject ſuch ſuppoſed Theocritus theſe thinks third Georgick thoſe tibi Tityrus tranſlates trees underſtand uſed Varus verſes Virgil whoſe γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ κὶ μὲν τε τὴν τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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Page 234 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 45 - And when he putteth forth his own sheep he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him ; for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers.
Page 170 - Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah...
Page 214 - Since thou, delicious youth, didft quit the plains, Th' ungrateful ground we till with fruitlefs pains, In labour'd furrows fow the choice of wheat, And, over empty fheaves, in harveft fweat, 71 A thin incieafe our fleecy cattle yield ; And thorns, and thirties, overfprend the field.
Page 170 - Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly ; and shalt thou be delivered ? Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Page 113 - Who guides below, and rules above, The great Disposer and the mighty King: Than he none greater, next him none, That can be, is, or was. Supreme he singly fills the throne.
Page 185 - O foster-son of Jove ! See! lab'ring Nature calls thee to sustain The nodding frame of heav'n, and earth, and main! See, to their base restor'd, earth, seas, and air; And joyful ages, from behind, in crowding ranks appear.
Page 143 - Nymphs of Solyma ! begin the fong : To heav'nly themes fublimer ftrains belong. The mofly fountains and the fylvan fhades, The dreams of Pindus and th' Aonian maids, Delight no more. — O Thou my voice infpire, Who touch'd Ifaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the Bard begun, A Virgin...
Page 294 - Strabo tells us, that this was the ancient name of the city, but that it afterwards was called Megara, by a colony of Dorians, who went to Sicily, under the conduct of Theocles, an Athenian: that the ancient names of the other cities are forgotten ; but that of Hybla is remembered, on account of the excellence of the 'Hyblaean honey.
Page 362 - Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards the famous Druids lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream.