 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1801 - 528 pages
...And as a goofe In death contracts her talons clofe, " Nee plura effatus, faxum circumfpicit ingcns, Saxum antiquum, ingens, campo quod forte jacebat Limes...agro pofitus, litem ut difcerneret arvis, Vix illud \e&i bis fex cervice fubirent, Uuaii. i nunc hominum producit corpora tellus." JEa. xi. 896. V. 497.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...the ftone which Turnus lifted againft ./Eneas, he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumfpicit ingens, Saxum antiquum, ingens, campo...jacebat Limes agro pofitus, litem ut difcerneret arvis. Cowley fays of the ftone with which Cain flew his brother^ I faw him fling the flone, as if he meant... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 554 pages
...lay . An huge great jlone, &c.] Virg. JJiz. xii. 896. " Saxum circumfpicit ingens, " Saxum autiquum, ingens, campo quod forte jacebat, " Limes agro pofitus, litem ut difcerneret arvis. — " Ille manu raptum trepida torquebat in hoftem." JoRTiJf. Among other inftances of the extraordinary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...the flone which Turnus lifted againft yEneas, he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumfpicit ingens, Saxum antiquum, ingens, campo...jacebat Limes agro pofitus, litem ut difcerneret arvis. Cowley fays of the ftonc with which Cain flew his brother, I faw him fling the ftone, as if he meant... | |
| |
Of the fword taken from Goliah, he fays, A fword fo great, that it was only fit To cut off his great head that came with it. 
