 Or, stript for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil, And watches with a trip his foe to foil. Such was the life the frugal Sabines led; So Remus and his brother god were bred: From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose, And this rude life our homely fathers...  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's Virgil - Page 143by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pages
...levels with his eyes; Or, etripp'd for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil, And watches with a trip bis foe to foil. Such was the life the frugal Sabines led ; So Remus and bis brother god were bred, From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose ; And this rude life our homely... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1911 - 224 pages
...With crooked plow the fertile fallows tills, And the round year with daily labor fills. « * * * * * Such was the life the frugal Sabines led: So Remus and his brother god were bred, From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose ; And this rude life our homely fathers chose. Old Rome from such a race... | |
 | Heathcote William Garrod - 1912 - 576 pages
...butts defies, And bends, and levels with his eyes, Or stript for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil, And watches, with a trip, his foe to foil. Such was...the life the frugal Sabines led : So Remus and his brother-god were bred, From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose ; And this rude life our homely fathers... | |
 | John Keble - 1912 - 544 pages
...would be but flat and incomplete, unless he could blend with it the memory of the happy days of old : Such was the life the frugal Sabines led : So Remus and his brother god were bred, From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose ; And this rude life our homely fathers chose. Old Rome from such a race... | |
 | George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - 1924 - 660 pages
...And bends his bows, and levels with his eyes, Or, stript for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil, And watches with a trip his foe to foil. Such was...Remus and his brother god were bred: From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose, And this rude life our homely fathers chose. Old Rome from such a race... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...eyes. Or stripped for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil, And watches, with a trip his foe to foi1. Such was the life the frugal Sabines led; So Remus and his brother god were bred, From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose; And this rude life our homely fathers chose. 780 Old Rome from such... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pages
...And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. Or, stripped for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil And watches with a trip his foe to foil. Such was the life the frugal Sabines led; 140 So Remus and his brother god were bred, From whom th' austere Etrurian virtue rose, And this rude... | |
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