The British poets, including translations, Volume 881822 |
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ancient Apollo Bacchus beauteous beauty beauty's behold beneath birth bless'd Boeotia bore born breast brother called Ceres Ceto charms Chimæra Chrysaor Clerc crown'd dame daughter deities derives divine dreadful earth Epimetheus eyes fable fair fame father fire fruits Georgic Geryon give goddess gods golden grace Grævius Greek hand head heaven Helicon Hence Hercules heroes Hesiod Homer honour immortal Jove Juno Jupiter justice king labour Lord Bacon maid meaning mighty mind mortal mountain Muses nature Neptune night nymphs o'er observe ocean offsprings Pallas passage Pausanias Peleus Perses Phoenician Phoenician word Phorcys plain Pleïades plough Plutarch Pluto poem poet poetical praise precepts Prometheus propitious race reason reign rise sacred Saturn says Scholiast sense signifies sing sire skies sons sprung story Styx swain Tartarus tells thee Theogony thou Titans translation Troy Typhoeus Tzetzes Venus verse Virgil Vulcan whence wind wise
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Page 62 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 66 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 72 - And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away...
Page 51 - Far does the man all other men excel Who from his wisdom thinks in all things well, Wisely considering, to himself a friend, All for the present best, and for the end. Nor is the man without his share of praise Who well the dictates of the wise obeys ; But he that is not wise himself, nor can Hearken to wisdom, is a useless man.
Page 123 - Georgics go upon, is I think the meanest and least improving, but the most pleasing and delightful. Precepts of morality, besides the natural corruption of our tempers, which makes us averse to them, are so abstracted from ideas of sense, that they seldom give an opportunity for those beautiful descriptions and images which are the spirit and life of poetry.
Page 74 - There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights, conceal'd from human eye : But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear.
Page 210 - Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Page 49 - Aerial spirits, by great Jove designed To be on earth the guardians of mankind ; Invisible to mortal eyes, they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below ; The immortal spies with watchful care preside. And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide ; They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by divine permission hold.
Page 72 - And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. 1 1 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar : it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Page 207 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.