Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams

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J.R. Smith, 1858 - 256 páginas
 

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Página 148 - Were asked of thy discoveries ; they must say, To the Greek coast thine only knew the way. Such passage hast thou found, such returns made, As now of all men it is called thy trade, And who make thither else, rob or invade.
Página 51 - Thy nerves will far be spent, when these boughs shall To these their leaves confer me fruit and all. But see not thou whatever thou dost see, Nor hear though hear, but all as touching me Conceal, since nought it can endamage thee.
Página 77 - Deities ; That man shall sea-ways tread, that leave no tracts, And false or no guide find for all his facts. And yet will I his gifts accept as well As his to whom the simple truth I tell. One other thing to thee I'll yet make known, Maia's exceedingly renowned son, And Jove's, and of the Gods...
Página 73 - Sofi voluntaries only, and assays As wanton as the sports of children are, And (even when he aspires to singular In all the mast'ries he shall play or sing) Finds the whole work but an unhappy thing, 855 He, I say, sure shall of this lute be king. But he, whoever rudely sets upon Of this lute's skill th...
Página 89 - Of all the Blessed, for thou art their friend ; And so far from sustaining instant end, That to thy long-enlarg'd life there shall spring Amongst the Trojans a dear son, and king, To whom shall many a son, and son's son, rise...
Página 99 - Crowd to the stern, about the master there, Whose mind he still kept dauntless and sincere, But on the captain rush'd and ramp'd, with force So rude and sudden, that his main recourse Was to the main-sea straight : and after him...
Página 35 - Goddess? Her conception, Nor bringing forth, had any hand of mine ; And yet, know all the Gods, I go for thine To such kind uses." But I'll now employ My brain to procreate a masculine joy ; That 'mongst th' Immortals may as eminent shine, With shame affecting nor my bed nor thine.
Página 148 - Whose work could this be, CHAPMAN, to refine Old Hesiod's ore, and give it thus ! but thine, Who hadst before wrought in rich Homer's mine. What treasure hast thou brought us ! and what store Still, still, dost thou arrive with at our shore, To make thy honour and our wealth the more! If all the vulgar tongues that speak this day Were asked of thy discoveries ; they must say, To the Greek coast thine only knew the way.
Página 107 - The most inaccessible tops of all Uprightest rocks ; and ever use to call On Pan, the bright-hair'd God of pastoral. Who yet is lean and loveless, and doth owe By lot, all loftiest mountains crown'd with snow ; All tops of hills, and cliffy highnesses, All sylvan copses, and the fortresses Of thorniest queaches, here and there doth rove. And sometimes, by allurement of his love, Will wade the...
Página 18 - I WILL remember and express the praise Of heaven's far-darter, the fair King of days; Whom even the Gods themselves fear when he goes Through Jove's high house : and when his goodly bows He goes to bend, all from their thrones arise, And cluster near, t

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