Virgil in English Rhythm: With Illustrations from the British Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper |
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... fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks , or mountain pines ; With singed top their stately growth , though bare , Stands on the blasted heath . " Milton , P. L. i . " My piteous plight in yonder naked tree , Which bears the thunder - scar ...
... fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks , or mountain pines ; With singed top their stately growth , though bare , Stands on the blasted heath . " Milton , P. L. i . " My piteous plight in yonder naked tree , Which bears the thunder - scar ...
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... fire ; How all beginnings from these rudiments , And e'en the yielding ball of th ' atmosphere Together grew ; then how the ground began To harden , and within the deep apart To shut the ocean up , and by degrees To take the shapes of ...
... fire ; How all beginnings from these rudiments , And e'en the yielding ball of th ' atmosphere Together grew ; then how the ground began To harden , and within the deep apart To shut the ocean up , and by degrees To take the shapes of ...
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... fire Aye be , and lintels black with ceaseless soot : Here we as much for chills of Boreas care As either for the number [ of the sheep ] The wolf , or boiling rivers for their banks . Cor . Both junipers and prickly chestnut trees 71 ...
... fire Aye be , and lintels black with ceaseless soot : Here we as much for chills of Boreas care As either for the number [ of the sheep ] The wolf , or boiling rivers for their banks . Cor . Both junipers and prickly chestnut trees 71 ...
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... fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt ; the strong - bas'd promontory Have I made shake , and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar ; graves , at my command , Have wak'd their sleepers ; oped , and let them forth By ...
... fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt ; the strong - bas'd promontory Have I made shake , and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar ; graves , at my command , Have wak'd their sleepers ; oped , and let them forth By ...
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... fire , my cattle , and my bed , Might have been shut together in one shed ; And then had taken me some mountain girl , Beaten with winds , chaste as the hardened rocks , Whereon she dwelt , that might have strewed my bed With leaves and ...
... fire , my cattle , and my bed , Might have been shut together in one shed ; And then had taken me some mountain girl , Beaten with winds , chaste as the hardened rocks , Whereon she dwelt , that might have strewed my bed With leaves and ...
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Page 67 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 204 - Philomel with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby. Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby. Never harm Nor spell nor charm Come our lovely lady nigh. So good night, with lullaby.
Page 22 - Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war...
Page 155 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 236 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 270 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 193 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 203 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 182 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Page 40 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...