 | Frederick Nolan - 1810 - 396 pages
...compares with That fair field Of Enua, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flow'r, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her thro' the world. IV. v. 268. In these passages there is evidently no attempt to introduce these mythological... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that feir field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Wai gather'd, which cost Ceres all that paiu Ta «eak I.IT through tie wotld ; nor that t w«et grove... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1811 - 352 pages
...i 19, 21.)* 57 For the beavity of this Sicilian city, and the fertility of the Surrounding country, That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gnther'd '" '(Milt. PL iv. 267.) See Cie. adv. Verr. de Signis,- for its treachery to the Romans, and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...internal regions. Milton alludes to her story, when he mentions « — .. . .- That fair fluid Of Einia, where Proserpine, gathering flowers,' Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd." V. 432. And stole his talismanie louse.] There is a great deal of humour in this expression. The superstition... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours, hi dance Led on tlT eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flowY, by gloomy Dis 270 Was gnther'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek hc-r throngh the world... | |
 | Claudius Claudianus, Jacob George Strutt - Latin poetry - 1814 - 238 pages
...garden, to the no less enchanting plains of Enna; . = Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy...Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world might with this paradise Of Eden strive. Paradise Lost, iv. 268. « The poem of Rufinus, although less... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville - Geography, Ancient - 1814 - 486 pages
...Paradise: • Not that fair field Of Eima, where Proserpine, gathering flow'rs, Herself a fairer flow'r, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world; nor that sweet grovt Of DAPILSB, by ORONTKS, and th' inspir'd Casiulian spring; might with this paradise... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 314 pages
...19, 21.) • on e For the beauty of this Sicilian city, and the fertility of the surrounding country, That fair field . :> .Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Wasgather'd ' Milt. PL iv. 26?. See Cic. adv. Verr. de Signit : for its treachery to the Romans, and... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1817 - 552 pages
...these authorities, if you please you may add that of Milton, who compares it to paradise itself: Nor that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered If you want to have a fuller account of this place, you will find it in Cicero's pleadings... | |
 | 1818 - 628 pages
...— but in how much fewer words, and in what a different manner, does Milton tell the same story ! " That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dii Was gather'd." We shall only add another extract, which approaches the confines of sublimity. The... | |
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