Studies of Nature, Volume 4J. Mawman, 1809 |
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... ancient projects of public felicity ; not to execute them in person , as formerly , but at least to compose an in- teresting picture of it . The speculation simply of a general happiness , was now sufficient for my in- dividual felicity ...
... ancient projects of public felicity ; not to execute them in person , as formerly , but at least to compose an in- teresting picture of it . The speculation simply of a general happiness , was now sufficient for my in- dividual felicity ...
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... ancient and modern , have represented the Arcadians as a Nation of amorous shepherds , who excelled in Poetry and Music , which are in all countries the expressive languages of love . Virgil , in particular , frequently celebrates their ...
... ancient and modern , have represented the Arcadians as a Nation of amorous shepherds , who excelled in Poetry and Music , which are in all countries the expressive languages of love . Virgil , in particular , frequently celebrates their ...
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... ancient friend I see ! Anchises looks , and lives , and speaks in thee ! Well I recal great Priam's stately port , When once he sought his royal sister's ' court On Salaminian shores , with all his train ; And took his way through our ...
... ancient friend I see ! Anchises looks , and lives , and speaks in thee ! Well I recal great Priam's stately port , When once he sought his royal sister's ' court On Salaminian shores , with all his train ; And took his way through our ...
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... ancient guest Anchises . The hospitality which he had formerly expressed to the father , determines him now to support the son . It is not foreign to my subject to remark in this place , to the honour of Virgil and of his heroes , that ...
... ancient guest Anchises . The hospitality which he had formerly expressed to the father , determines him now to support the son . It is not foreign to my subject to remark in this place , to the honour of Virgil and of his heroes , that ...
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... ancients ; but by the general interest which we take in the miserable . In order to render the effect of this more dignified , and more affecting , she applies to herself the need of it , and reverberates from her own heart , on the ...
... ancients ; but by the general interest which we take in the miserable . In order to render the effect of this more dignified , and more affecting , she applies to herself the need of it , and reverberates from her own heart , on the ...
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ÆNEID ages ambition ancient Arcadians arms Bardus behold body bosom Bramins Carnut Cephas Ceres cities citizens Clergy Colonies commerce corps Doctor Druids Earth Egypt Empire employed Eneas enemies Europe eyes father favour felicity forests formed fortune France frequently fruits Gauls Globe glory Greeks hand happiness heart Heaven Hercules honour human India Indian inhabitants interest island Jagrenat Jupiter King Kingdom labours Lacedemon land language laws liberty likewise Louis XVI Lutetia mankind manner means Memnon ment miserable Monarchy mother National Assembly Nature never night Nobility Omfi Pandects Paria Paris perceived Persia persons plants Plutarch possess present Priam Priests Prince produced reason religion religious render replied repose respect river Roman Rome shores slavery slaves subsistence thee thing thou tion Tirteus trees truth Virgil virtue whole wish word wretched young
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Page 459 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 459 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page 454 - Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Page 459 - Else, when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
Page 459 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 22 - Amor, nec gramina rivis, nec cytiso saturantur apes, nec fronde capellae.' 30 tristis at ille ' tamen cantabitis, Arcades,' inquit, ' montibus haec vestris : soli cantare periti Arcades, o mihi turn quam molliter ossa quiescant, vestra meos olim si fistula dicat amores ! atque utinam ex vobis unus vestrique fuissem aut custos gregis aut maturae vinitor uvae...
Page 51 - AH black with smoke, a rocky island stood, The dark Vulcanian land, the region of the god. Here the grim Cyclops ply, in vaults profound, The huge /Eolian forge that thunders round.
Page 60 - Hunc tibi praeterea, spes et solatia nostri, Pallanta adjungam . Sub te tolerare magistro Militiam et grave Martis opus, tua cernere facta, Assuescat, primis et te miretur ab annis.
Page 52 - Tres imbris torti radios, tres nubis aquosae Addiderant ; rutili tres ignis et alitis austri : Fulgores nunc terrificos, sonitumque, metumque Miscebant operi, flammisque sequacibus iras.
Page 53 - Capacious of the whole Rutulian war, Some, orb in orb, the blazing buckler frame ; Some with huge bellows rouze the roaring flame : Some in the ftream the hiffing metals drown'd ; 605 ' From vault to vault the thund'ring ftrokes rebound, And the deep caves rebellow to the found.