Preparatory Latin Course in EnglishPhillips & Hunt, 1883 - 331 páginas |
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Preparatory Latin Course in English: Fiftieth Thousand William Cleaver Wilkinson Vista completa - 1885 |
Preparatory Latin Course in English: Fiftieth Thousand William Cleaver Wilkinson Vista completa - 1883 |
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Página 285 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 282 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, — He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie...
Página 77 - The nympholepsy of some fond despair ; Or, it might be, a beauty of the earth, Who found a more than common votary there Too much adoring ; whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.
Página 240 - 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.
Página 310 - ... him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty : and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not...
Página 232 - CAPTAIN or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Página 147 - T was on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Página 241 - Whatever part of heaven thou shalt obtain, (For let not hell presume of such a reign ; Nor let so dire a thirst of empire move Thy mind, to leave thy kindred gods above ; Though Greece admires Elysium's blest retreat...
Página 115 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Página 107 - Which way to turn the reins, or where to go ; Nor would the horses, had he known, obey. Then the Seven Stars first felt Apollo's ray And wished to dip in the forbidden sea.