The unripe windfalls in prose and verse of James HenryUniversity Press, 1851 - 324 pages |
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2ndly æquora ære ALTO aperit aplustre arma atque billows bowers so green carcere CARO Cella CHAUNT cherries circumfused claustra clouds cœlum commotus Compare currus dashing waters rude dear Dido DRYDEN Editor Eneas Eolia Eolus express eyes fatis FITZWILLIAM-Square fluctus FORIBUS GLENAGEARY goddess-ship Goddess's Heyne HINC INQUE Juno Junonis Katharine laid LATIO Latium latus limina looking Lord Byron Lord of War meaning minantur Miss Sheridan montis Neptune never night NORTH-WEST WIND nosegays o'er OVID passage phaëton placidum poet PROFUGUS Prospiciens QUÆ quod reader reductos resedit rock rocky isle Rome saxa scopuli secessus secundus SEDILIA sense Servius shower Silius Italicus speechless love stanza star STAT Statius sweet Syrtes temple TESTUDINE Theb there's thou among women Tis Paris trabes Trojans Vaux de Vire ventis verse Virgil VIRUM Voss waves whole words δε
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Page 14 - Jovemque concilias, tu das epulis accumbere divom, nimborumque facis tempestatumque potentem.' 80 Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem impulit in latus : ac venti, velut agmine facto, qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant...
Page 29 - Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant ; Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet...
Page 6 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed...
Page 40 - Est in secessu longo locus : insula portum Efficit objectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto Frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos.
Page 11 - 1 gran Sepolcro liberò di Cristo. Molto egli oprò col senno e con la mano; Molto soffrì nel glorioso acquisto: E invan l'Inferno a lui s'oppose, e invano S'armò d'Asia e di Libia il popol misto: Che il Ciel gli dié favore, e sotto ai santi Segni ridusse i suoi compagni erranti.
Page 11 - Lo ! I, the man whose Muse whylome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shephards weeds, Am now enforst, a farre unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds, And sing of knights and ladies gentle deeds...
Page 21 - Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet (saxa vocant Itali mediis quae in fluctibus Aras, dorsum...
Page 16 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bowed their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.
Page 8 - Aeolus arce sceptra tenens mollitque animos et temperat iras. ni faciat, maria ac terras caelumque profundum quippe ferant rapidi secum verrantque per auras: sed pater omnipotens speluncis abdidit atris...
Page 11 - Yours is my sovereign's grace; and, as your guest, I sit with gods at their celestial feast, Raise tempests at your pleasure, or subdue ; Dispose of empire, which I hold from you.