 Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war, then with victorious hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The plough, and greatly independent scorned All the vile stores corruption can bestow.  The Works of Virgil - Side 41af Virgil, William Staughton - 1825 - 688 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 sider
...rural Maro sung To wide imperial Rome, in the full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refln'd. In ancient times, the sacred plough employ 'd The...fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compar'd your insect-tribes flo Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, rul'd the storm... | |
 | Lāl Behārī Day, Lālavihārı̄ De - 1874 - 318 sider
...times the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind. And some, with whom compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war; then with victorious hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1874 - 502 sider
...times the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind. And some, with whom compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war ; then with victorious hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1874 - 410 sider
...times the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind. And some, with whom compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the stormOf mighty war; then with victorious hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The plough,... | |
 | Frank Ives Scudamore - 1875 - 336 sider
...plough employed The kings, and awful fathers of mankind," and that — " Some, with whom compared our insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of Empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war, then with unwearied hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The plough,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sider
...plough employ'd The kings, and awful fathers of mankind ; And some, with whom compared your insect Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war, then, with unwearied hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1876 - 370 sider
...times, the sacred plough employ'd The kings and awful fathers of mankind. And some, with whom compared, your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war ; then, with victorious hand Disdaining little delicacies, seized The... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1880 - 260 sider
...times, the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war ; then, with unwearied hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 sider
...the full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refin'd. In ancient times, the sacred plow employ'd lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my wants beguile : The barren wilder insecttribes Arc but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, rul'd the storm Of... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 sider
...times, the sacred plough cmploy'd The kings and awful fathers of mankind. And some, with whom compared en Bertram ruled the storm Of mighty war, then, with unwearied hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The... | |
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