 | Virgil - 1725 - 202 pages
...habendo Sit Pecori, Apibus quanta experientio, forcis, Mr. VERSION. What makes & plenteous Harveft, when to Turn The Fruitful Soil, and when to Sow the....• The Care of Sheep, of Oxen, and of Kine, And when to raife on Elms the teeming Vine ; The Birth and Genius of the frugal Bee, I fmg , M*cevat, and... | |
 | Virgil - 1803 - 364 pages
...shuts up all with a supplication to the gods for the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of Rome. WHAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...kine ; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, 5 I sing, Maecenas, and I sing to thee. Ye deities ! who fields... | |
 | Virgil - 1803 - 352 pages
...passages, which he had translated from Theocritus : and here he has bound them into a nosegay. GEORGIC I. The poetry of this book is more sublime than any part...if I have any taste. And if ever I have copied his majestic style, it is here. The compliment he makes Augustus almost in the beginning, is ill imitated... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...the invocation before the first Georgick, and of his poetry, by annexing his own version. Ver. 1. " What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn " The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn. " It's unlucky, they say, to stumlh at the threshold, but what has ^plenteous har" vest to do here?... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 312 pages
...passages, which he had translated from Theocritus : and here he has bound them into a nosegay. GEORGIC I. The poetry of this book is more sublime than any part...if I have any taste. And if ever I have copied his majestic style, it is here. The compliment he makes Augustus, almost in the beginning, is ill imitated... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 310 pages
...all with a supplication to the gods for the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of Rome.' W HAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...soil, and when to sow the corn ; The care of sheep, of-oxen, and of kine; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine; The birth and genius of the frugal... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 378 pages
...all with a supplication to the j ods for the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of Rome. \V HAT makes a plenteous harvest; when to turn The fruitful...kine ; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine; The hirth and genins of the frugal hee, 5 1 sing, Maecenas ! and I sing to thee. u'Z Ye deities ! who fields... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pages
...shuts up all with a supplication to the gods for the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of Rome.* WHAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...poetry of this book is more sublime than any part of Vjrgil, if I have any taste. And if ever I have copied his majesThe birth and genius of the frugal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...up all with a sup. plication to the gods for the safety of Augustus, and the preservation of Rome. WHAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...; And how to raise on elms the teeming vine ; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, I sing, Maecenas, and I sing to thee. Ye deities ! who fields and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...shuts up all with a sup. plication to the gods for the safety of Augustus and the preservation of Rome. WHAT makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful...when to sow the corn • The care of sheep, of oxen, andofkineAnd how to raise on elms the teeming vine • The birth and genius of the frugal bee, * I... | |
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What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn; The care of sheep, of oxen, and of kine, And how to raise on elms the teeming vine; The birth and genius of the frugal bee, I sing, Maecenas, and I sing to thee. 
