The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen18Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... chief invited guest . We spread the tables on the greenfword ground : We feed with hunger , and the bowls go round : When from the mountain tops , with hideous cry , And clattering wings , the hungry harpies fly : 290 They They fnatch ...
... chief invited guest . We spread the tables on the greenfword ground : We feed with hunger , and the bowls go round : When from the mountain tops , with hideous cry , And clattering wings , the hungry harpies fly : 290 They They fnatch ...
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... chief along The lofty walls , amidst the busy throng ; Difplays her Tyrian wealth and rifing town , Which love , without his labour , makes his own . This pomp fhe fhows to tempt her wandering gueft ; Her faltering tongue forbids to ...
... chief along The lofty walls , amidst the busy throng ; Difplays her Tyrian wealth and rifing town , Which love , without his labour , makes his own . This pomp fhe fhows to tempt her wandering gueft ; Her faltering tongue forbids to ...
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... chief delight To tell of prodigies , and cause affright . She fills the people's ears with Dido's name ; Who , loft to honour , and the sense of shame , Admits into her throne and nuptial bed A wandering guest , who from his country ...
... chief delight To tell of prodigies , and cause affright . She fills the people's ears with Dido's name ; Who , loft to honour , and the sense of shame , Admits into her throne and nuptial bed A wandering guest , who from his country ...
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... chief , who wastes his days 330 In flothful riot and inglorious ease , Nor minds the future city , giv'n by fate ; To him this meffage from my mouth relate : Not fo , fair Venus hop'd , when twice the won Thy life with prayers ; nor ...
... chief , who wastes his days 330 In flothful riot and inglorious ease , Nor minds the future city , giv'n by fate ; To him this meffage from my mouth relate : Not fo , fair Venus hop'd , when twice the won Thy life with prayers ; nor ...
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... chiefs he calls , commands them to repair 415 The fleet , and fhip their men with filent care : Some plaufible pretence he bids them find , To colour what in fecret he defign'd . 420 Himself , meantime , the fofteft hours would choose ...
... chiefs he calls , commands them to repair 415 The fleet , and fhip their men with filent care : Some plaufible pretence he bids them find , To colour what in fecret he defign'd . 420 Himself , meantime , the fofteft hours would choose ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneas Afcanius againſt altars amidſt Anchifes arms bear blood breaſt caft coaft command courſe Crete crown'd dart death defcends Dido Euryalus eyes facred fafe faid fame fatal fate fear fecond fecret fecure feek fent fhades fhall fhining fhips fhore fide fields fight fire firft firſt fix'd fkies flain flame fleep flew flood foes fome foul ftands ftill ftood fuch fury fword ghoſt gods ground gueſt hafte hands head heaven Helenus himſelf holy Jove Juno king labour laft land laſt Latian Latium lefs Mezentius mighty mix'd night o'er oars paffage Pallas plain poffefs'd prince promis'd purſue queen race rage reft reſt rifing rites Rutulians ſaid ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhould ſkies ſky ſpace ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtood Stygian thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou Thracian towers trembling Trojan troops Troy Turnus Tyrian vows whofe Whoſe winds wood wound youth
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Página 253 - And give him to his aged father's sight. Now let him perish, since you hold it good, And glut the Trojans with his pious blood. Yet from our lineage he derives his name, And, in the fourth degree, from god Pilumnus came; Yet he devoutly pays you rites divine, And offers daily incense at your shrine.
Página 100 - Observant of the souls that pass the downward way. From hence are heard the groans of ghosts, the pains Of sounding lashes and of dragging chains. The Trojan stood...
Página 87 - Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.
Página 121 - His mother ; fair Marica was her name. But Faunus came from Picus : Picus drew His birth from Saturn, if records be true. Thus king Latinus, in the third degree, Had Saturn author of his family.
Página 30 - Th' offended lover and the pow'rful queen? This way, and that, he turns his anxious mind, And all expedients tries, and none can find. Fix'd on the deed, but doubtful of the means — After long thought, to this advice he leans: Three chiefs he calls, commands them to repair The fleet, and ship their men, with silent care.
Página 120 - The Trojan, from the main, beheld a wood, Which thick with shades, and a brown horror, stood : Betwixt the trees the Tiber took his course, With whirlpools dimpled ; and, with downward force, That drove the sand along, he took his way, And roll'd his yellow billows to the sea. About him, and above, and round the wood, The birds that haunt the borders of his flood, That bath'd within, or bask'd upon his side, To tuneful songs their narrow throats apply'd. The captain gives command : the joyful train...
Página 111 - High as the Mother of the Gods in place, And proud, like her, of an immortal race. Then, when in pomp she makes the Phrygian round, With golden turrets on her temples crown'd; A hundred gods her sweeping train supply; Her offspring all, and all command the sky.
Página 53 - If great ^Eneas and Acestes join In his request, these gauntlets I resign; Let us with equal arms perform the fight, And let him leave to fear, since I resign my right.
Página 86 - O'er whose unhappy waters, void of light, No bird presumes to steer his airy flight : Such deadly stenches from the depth arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence, the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus, to the lake.
Página 213 - Th' inverted lance makes furrows in the plain. E'en time, that changes all, yet changes us in vain — The body, not the mind — nor can control Th' immortal vigor, or abate the soul.