The Georgic: A Contribution to the Study of the Vergilian Type of Didactic Poetry

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Johns Hopkins Press, 1919 - 175 sider

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Side 145 - Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t" embrace, And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness. Let them that list these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth and yellow daffodil, Purple narcissus like the morning rays, Pale gander-grass and azure culver-keys.
Side 146 - All these, and many more of his creation That made the heavens, the Angler oft doth see ; Taking therein no little delectation, To think how strange, how wonderful they be : Framing thereof an inward contemplation To set his heart from other fancies free ; And whilst he looks on these with joyful eye, His mind is rapt above the starry sky.
Side 150 - Now, strike your sailes, yee jolly Mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode, Where we must land some of our passengers, And light this weary vessel! of her lode...
Side 23 - Haec super arvorum cultu pecorumque canebam et super arboribus, Caesar dum magnus ad altum fulminat Euphraten bello victorque volentis 560 per populos dat iura viamque adfectat Olympo. illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat Parthenope, studiis florentem ignobilis oti, carmina qui lusi pastorum audaxque iuventa, Tityre, te patulae cecini sub tegmine fagi.
Side 126 - The careful insect midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew : With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies ; Some against hostile drones the hive defend, Others with sweets the waxen cells distend ; Each in the toil his destin'd office bears, And in the little bulk a mighty soul appears.
Side 22 - Must not the world wend in his commun course, From good to badd, and from badde to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then returne to his former fall...
Side 146 - Adorned with leaves and branches fresh and green, In whose cool bowers the birds with many a song Do welcome with their quire the summer's queen ; The meadows fair where Flora's gifts among Are intermixed with verdant grass between ; The silver-scaled fish that softly swim Within the sweet brook's crystal watery stream.
Side 1 - Georgics" are a subject which none of the critics have, sufficiently taken into their consideration; most ot them passing it over in silence, or casting it under the same head with pastoral : a division by no means proper...
Side 125 - Climb round the poles, and rise in graceful row : Now I behold the steed curvet and bound, And...
Side 126 - Nor trowl for pikes, dispeoplers of the lake. Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line : Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.