Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 páginas |
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... English ; but they are worth as much , especially in the hands of an honest man . Among this touchy and superfluous people , one author can hardly mention another without the addition of some epithet of eminent or illustrious . Even an ...
... English ; but they are worth as much , especially in the hands of an honest man . Among this touchy and superfluous people , one author can hardly mention another without the addition of some epithet of eminent or illustrious . Even an ...
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... English reader for the ab- sence of that particular interest in a poem of this kind , which arises from its being national . But this is impossi- ble ; and if he has neither a great understanding , nor a good nature that supplies the ...
... English reader for the ab- sence of that particular interest in a poem of this kind , which arises from its being national . But this is impossi- ble ; and if he has neither a great understanding , nor a good nature that supplies the ...
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... English words . But his Bacchus is not the Bacchus of Milton and the Greeks : he is the jolly toper of the French poets , and of the wits of Charles the Second . The in- stinct was judicious . His deity was the deity of the time ; his ...
... English words . But his Bacchus is not the Bacchus of Milton and the Greeks : he is the jolly toper of the French poets , and of the wits of Charles the Second . The in- stinct was judicious . His deity was the deity of the time ; his ...
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... English cyder : He who'd have his death come quicker , Any other northern liquor . Those Norwegians and those Laps Have extraordinary taps : Those Laps especially have strange fancies : To see them drink , I verily think Would make me ...
... English cyder : He who'd have his death come quicker , Any other northern liquor . Those Norwegians and those Laps Have extraordinary taps : Those Laps especially have strange fancies : To see them drink , I verily think Would make me ...
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... which is nei- ther more nor less than the English word Wel- come ! " Bellicone , " says Redi , " is a new word in Tuscany , and comes from the German , who call it Wilkomb or Wilkumb . It is a glass in which 72 NOTES .
... which is nei- ther more nor less than the English word Wel- come ! " Bellicone , " says Redi , " is a new word in Tuscany , and comes from the German , who call it Wilkomb or Wilkumb . It is a glass in which 72 NOTES .
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ancient Arezzo Ariadne Ariosto Avignon Bacchus Bacco in Toscana beautiful bitter and guilty Boccaccio called Catullus celebrated Chianti chocolate claret coffee coocooroocoo Cosmo the Third dance dare delight Della Cruscan Dictionary Dithyrambic divine drink English exquisite eyes Fiesole fifth element Filicaia flask Florence Flower FRANCESCO REDI French gentle give glass goblet grapes Greek hath heaven hill Italian Italy lady Latin Laurentian Library Livorno Magalotti Maiano Menzini mighty Milton Montepulciano Motett Muscadel natural never Note one's opium passage perhaps Petrarch physician pleasant poco poem poet poetical poetry praise prince quotes reader Redi says Redi's rhyme round scent settle in Port shew sing song sonnet sort speak spirit sweet talk taste thee thing thou translation tresses Tuscany Vallombrosa Verdea verses villa vines vineyards Virgil wine wines of Tuscany writing
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Página 134 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! 0 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 100 - 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 60 - 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. These, as stale, we disallow, Or judge of thee meant: only thou His true Indian conquest art ; And, for ivy round his dart, The reformed god now weaves A finer thyrsus of thy leaves.
Página 78 - 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 214 - Oh, never Shall we two exercise, like twins of Honour, Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses, Like proud seas under us...
Página 60 - Bacchus' black servant, negro fine; Sorcerer, that mak'st us dote upon Thy begrimed complexion, And, for thy pernicious sake, More and greater oaths to break Than reclaimed lovers take "Gainst women : thou thy siege dost lay Much too in the female way, While thou suck'st the lab'ring breath Faster than kisses or than death.
Página 143 - 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 45 - em, And fops whose little fingers ache 'em. Wine, wine is your only drink ! Grief never dares to look at the brink. Six times a year to be mad with wine, I hold it no shame, but a very good sign. I, for my part, take my can, Solely to act like a gentleman, And, acting so, I care not, I, For all the hail and snow in the sky.
Página 102 - 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 107 - tis, That in the drinking Swallowed thinking, And was the receipt for bliss. Thence it is, that ever and aye, When he doth...