Nor drum was heard, nor trumpet's angry sound; Nor swords were forged ; but void of care and crime. The soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food... Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books - Página 543por Titus Lucretius Carus - 1714Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 516 páginas
...soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food, which...freely bred, On wildings * and on strawberries they fed ; 135 Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers,... | |
| 1886 - 552 páginas
...safe, for conscience was their guard. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow ; Content with food which...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers unsown in fields and meadows reigned, And... | |
| 1886 - 894 páginas
...period which existed only in the poet's imagination — the " Golden Age "—says the people were " Content with food which nature freely bred. On wildings and on strawberries they fed." Pliny only mentions it in connection with the arbutus-trees. In book 15, chapter 24, he says the tree... | |
| William Warren Vernon - 1889 - 490 páginas
...revealed unto you" And v. 101-106 : " The teeming earth yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished forth a feast." And Bocethius, Consol. Philos. II, Metr. V : " Felix... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 páginas
...Nor swords were forged ; but void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time. . . . Content with food, which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed. . . . The flowers unsown in fields and meadows reigned, And western winds immortal spring maintained.... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 páginas
...soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow: Content with food, which...strawberries they fed ; 'Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest. And falling acorns furnished out a feast, The .flowers unsown in. fields and meadows reigned... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 páginas
...guard. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow7 ; Content with food which Nature freely bred. On wildings...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers unsown in fields and meadows reigned, And... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...livery ! DRYDEN. What aim'st thou at ? delicious fare, And then to sun thyself in open air? DRYDEN. Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed : Coraels and bramble berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnish'd out a feast. DRYDEN. Such... | |
| 1897 - 510 páginas
...sound ; Nor swords were forged ; but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time. Content with food, which nature freely bred, On wildings...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers unsown in fields and meadows reigned; And... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1900 - 588 páginas
...safe, for conscience was their guard. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow ; Content with food which...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers unsown in fields and meadows reigned, And... | |
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