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 | Plutarch - 1811 - 352 pages
...i 19, 21.)* 57 For the beavity of this Sicilian city, and the fertility of the Surrounding country, That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gnther'd '" '(Milt. PL iv. 267.) See Cie. adv. Verr. de Signis,- for its treachery to the Romans, and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 pages
...internal regions. Milton alludes to her story, when he mentions « — .. . .- That fair fluid Of Einia, where Proserpine, gathering flowers,' Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd." V. 432. And stole his talismanie louse.] There is a great deal of humour in this expression.... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours, hi dance Led on tlT eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flowY, by gloomy Dis 270 Was gnther'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek hc-r throngh the world... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville - 1814 - 486 pages
...field Of Eima, where Proserpine, gathering flow'rs, Herself a fairer flow'r, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world; nor that sweet grovt Of DAPILSB, by ORONTKS, and th' inspir'd Casiulian spring; might with this paradise... | |
 | Claudius Claudianus, Jacob George Strutt - 1814 - 238 pages
...field Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world might with this paradise Of Eden strive. Paradise Lost, iv. 268. « The poem of Rufinus, although less... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 314 pages
...19, 21.) • on e For the beauty of this Sicilian city, and the fertility of the surrounding country, That fair field . :> .Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Wasgather'd ' Milt. PL iv. 26?. See Cic. adv. Verr. de Signit : for its treachery to the Romans, and... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1817 - 552 pages
...these authorities, if you please you may add that of Milton, who compares it to paradise itself: Nor that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered If you want to have a fuller account of this place, you will find it in Cicero's pleadings against... | |
 | 1818 - 628 pages
...— but in how much fewer words, and in what a different manner, does Milton tell the same story ! " That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dii Was gather'd." We shall only add another extract, which approaches the confines of sublimity. The... | |
 | 1818 - 638 pages
...words, and in what a different manner, does Milton tell the same story i " That fair field Of Knna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd." We shall only add another extract, which approaches the confines of sublimity. The idea... | |
 | 1836 - 790 pages
...interior of the island, the " Umbelicus Siciliae," as Cicero calls it ; that " fair field of Euna," where — " Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered." Thence our tourist traverses the desolate Leontine Fields, in his way to Syracuse ; and, after a careful... | |
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