Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 páginas |
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... writing so well upon it , it is a triumph for Bacchus instead of a dishonour . It only shews how little wine will suffice to set a genial brain in motion . A poet has wine in his blood . The laurel and ivy were common , of old , both to ...
... writing so well upon it , it is a triumph for Bacchus instead of a dishonour . It only shews how little wine will suffice to set a genial brain in motion . A poet has wine in his blood . The laurel and ivy were common , of old , both to ...
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... Written already in immortal story . When thou shalt leave us to return to Heav'n , Laden with mighty deeds , and full of years , To thine illustrious planet it is given To roll around Jupiter , clear , grand , and even , Flushing the ...
... Written already in immortal story . When thou shalt leave us to return to Heav'n , Laden with mighty deeds , and full of years , To thine illustrious planet it is given To roll around Jupiter , clear , grand , and even , Flushing the ...
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... written by Girolano Baraffaldi , an ecclesiastic , author of several poems not un- esteemed . The Tabaccheide is not without wit , but evinces too much of the garrulity of snuff- taking . The best passage is a lucky imitation of the ...
... written by Girolano Baraffaldi , an ecclesiastic , author of several poems not un- esteemed . The Tabaccheide is not without wit , but evinces too much of the garrulity of snuff- taking . The best passage is a lucky imitation of the ...
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... written , came up during the lower Roman empire ; and the other changes followed by degrees . Redi . Note 6 , page 3 . Gods - my life , what glorious claret ! Blessed be the ground that bare it ! ' Tis Avignon . Bacchus begins his ...
... written , came up during the lower Roman empire ; and the other changes followed by degrees . Redi . Note 6 , page 3 . Gods - my life , what glorious claret ! Blessed be the ground that bare it ! ' Tis Avignon . Bacchus begins his ...
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... written very like the Jew . The similes that are so apt to mystify people in Solomon , are not similes to the eye , but to the sentiment . That of beautiful teeth to a flock of sheep newly come up from the washing , partakes of the ...
... written very like the Jew . The similes that are so apt to mystify people in Solomon , are not similes to the eye , but to the sentiment . That of beautiful teeth to a flock of sheep newly come up from the washing , partakes of the ...
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admiration afterwards ancient Ariadne Ariosto Avignon Bacchus Bacco in Toscana beautiful better bitter and guilty Boccaccio called Catullus celebrated Chianti chocolate coffee coocooroocoo Cosmo the Third dance Dante delight Della Cruscan Dithyrambic divine Don Quixote drink English exquisite eyes Fiesole Filicaia flask Florence Flower FRANCESCO REDI gentle give glass grapes Greek H. L. HUNT hath heaven Hermo hill Italian Italy king lady Latin Magalotti Maiano Menzini mighty Milton Montepulciano Muscadel nature never Note one's opium passage perhaps Petrarch physician pleasant poco poem poet poetical poetry praise prince Quixote quotes reader Redi says Redi's rhyme round Salvini sarcophagus Scott Waring settle in Port shew sing song sonnet sort speak spirit sweet taste thee thing thou Tis Phyllis translation tresses Tuscany Vallombrosa Verdea verses villa vine vineyards wine wines of Tuscany
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Página 124 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 90 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Página 68 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 204 - Oh, never Shall we two exercise, like twins of Honour, Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses, Like proud seas under us...
Página 50 - Some few vapours thou may'st raise. The weak brain may serve to amaze, But to the reins and nobler heart Canst nor life nor heat impart. Brother of Bacchus, later born, The old world was sure forlorn Wanting thee, that aidest more The god's victories than before All his panthers, and the brawls Of his piping Bacchanals.
Página 133 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Página 92 - But come; for thou, be sure, shalt give account To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep This place inviolable, and these from harm.
Página 97 - Tis the true old Aurum Potabile Gilding life when it wears shabbily : Helen's old Nepenthe 'tis, That in the drinking Swallowed thinking, And was the receipt for bliss.
Página v - Medicine così fatte Non saran giammai per me. Beverei prima il veleno, Che un bicchier che fosse pieno Dell'amaro e reo caffè. Colà tra gli Arabi, E tra i Giannizzeri Liquor sì ostico, * Sì nero e torbido Gli schiavi ingollino: Giù nel Tartaro, Giù nell...
Página 209 - ... roar; I see a ship afar: Tossing and tossing, and making to the shore: But what's that I view, So radiant of hue, St Hermo, St Hermo, that sits upon the sails? Ah! No, no, no. St Hermo never, never shone so bright; 'Tis Phillis, only Phillis, can shoot so fair a light; 'Tis Phillis, 'tis Phillis, that saves the ship alone, For all the winds are hush'd, and the storm is overblown.