The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 49
... plain ex- tends , stall and cattle alike . No respite was there in those fearful days to the threatening filaments ... plains . Yes , and the time will come when in those borders the husbandman , as with his crooked plough he upheaves ...
... plain ex- tends , stall and cattle alike . No respite was there in those fearful days to the threatening filaments ... plains . Yes , and the time will come when in those borders the husbandman , as with his crooked plough he upheaves ...
Page 51
... plains and the winding river banks , like the pliant osier and the limber broom , the poplar , and the willow groves that look so hoary with their grey leaves . Some again spring up from the drop- ping of seed , like the tall chestnuts ...
... plains and the winding river banks , like the pliant osier and the limber broom , the poplar , and the willow groves that look so hoary with their grey leaves . Some again spring up from the drop- ping of seed , like the tall chestnuts ...
Page 57
... plain which rises to the south , and produces fern , that enemy of the crooked ploughshare ; such a soil will one ... plains such as that which poor Mantua lost , supporting silver swans with its weedy stream : there will be no lack of ...
... plain which rises to the south , and produces fern , that enemy of the crooked ploughshare ; such a soil will one ... plains such as that which poor Mantua lost , supporting silver swans with its weedy stream : there will be no lack of ...
Page 60
... plain . If you decide on laying out tracts of rich level ground , plant thick ; thick setting will not dull the powers of the wine - god . But if you fix on land rising into hillocks and broad slopes , give free scope to your rows― all ...
... plain . If you decide on laying out tracts of rich level ground , plant thick ; thick setting will not dull the powers of the wine - god . But if you fix on land rising into hillocks and broad slopes , give free scope to your rows― all ...
Page 67
... plains - for Spercheius and Taygete , the revel - ground of Spartan maidens ! O for one to set me down in the cool glens of Hamus , and shelter me beneath the giant shade of its boughs ! Happy the man who has gained a knowledge of the ...
... plains - for Spercheius and Taygete , the revel - ground of Spartan maidens ! O for one to set me down in the cool glens of Hamus , and shelter me beneath the giant shade of its boughs ! Happy the man who has gained a knowledge of the ...
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