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... gods , joins the consideration and esteem we ought to preserve for virtue in good men . Cato is a religious severe philosopher , weaned from all vulgar opinions , who entertains those lofty thoughts of the gods , which pure undebauched ...
... gods , joins the consideration and esteem we ought to preserve for virtue in good men . Cato is a religious severe philosopher , weaned from all vulgar opinions , who entertains those lofty thoughts of the gods , which pure undebauched ...
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... gods with human infirm- ities , to adapt them to the capacity of men : the other has raised his heroes so , as to bring them into competition with the gods themselves . In a word , the gods are not so valuable in Virgil , as the berues ...
... gods with human infirm- ities , to adapt them to the capacity of men : the other has raised his heroes so , as to bring them into competition with the gods themselves . In a word , the gods are not so valuable in Virgil , as the berues ...
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... gods , And Earth must pay for their divine abodes ; If Heaven could not the thunderer obtain , Till giants wars made room for Jove to reign , ' Tis just , ye gods , nor ought we to complain : Opprest with death though dire Pharsalia ...
... gods , And Earth must pay for their divine abodes ; If Heaven could not the thunderer obtain , Till giants wars made room for Jove to reign , ' Tis just , ye gods , nor ought we to complain : Opprest with death though dire Pharsalia ...
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... gods and country ask their stay , And pleading nature beg them to delay . What means , ye gods ! this changing in your doom ? Freely you grant , but quickly you resume . Vain is the short - liv'd sovereignty you lend ; The pile you ...
... gods and country ask their stay , And pleading nature beg them to delay . What means , ye gods ! this changing in your doom ? Freely you grant , but quickly you resume . Vain is the short - liv'd sovereignty you lend ; The pile you ...
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... gods ! " ( he cry'd ) “ forbid me to relate What woes on this devoted people wait . Nor dost thou , Jove , in these our rites partake , Nor smile propitious on the prayer we make ; The dreadful Stygian gods this victim claim , And to ...
... gods ! " ( he cry'd ) “ forbid me to relate What woes on this devoted people wait . Nor dost thou , Jove , in these our rites partake , Nor smile propitious on the prayer we make ; The dreadful Stygian gods this victim claim , And to ...
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Page 356 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition...
Page 198 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 533 - Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have : But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Page 383 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again, and that the tender branches thereof will not cease.
Page 208 - Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Page 378 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Page 530 - The breathless embryo with a spirit warm'd ; But when the mother's throes begin to come, The creature, pent within the narrow room...
Page 347 - Two cities radiant on the shield appear, The image one of peace, and one of war, Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming to the nuptial bed...
Page 423 - By pray'rs are bent to pity, and to love; If human miseries can move their mind; If yet they can forgive, and yet be kind; Tell how we may restore, by second birth, Mankind, and people desolated earth.
Page 319 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.