Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 páginas |
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... Greek and Latin scholar , and a busy collector of manuscripts . But above all , he was ever ready at the call of friendship , both in his pro- fession and out of it . To judge from the praises of his countrymen , he partook of the wit ...
... Greek and Latin scholar , and a busy collector of manuscripts . But above all , he was ever ready at the call of friendship , both in his pro- fession and out of it . To judge from the praises of his countrymen , he partook of the wit ...
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... Greeks , with their gymnastics , had something in them of the insolence of health . They were right : they were for having no diseases which an early attention to exercise and to manly sports could prevent ; and had reason to exclaim ...
... Greeks , with their gymnastics , had something in them of the insolence of health . They were right : they were for having no diseases which an early attention to exercise and to manly sports could prevent ; and had reason to exclaim ...
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... Greek , or less learned , than the character of his god Bacchus . There is a philological learning evinced in the ... Greeks : he is the jolly toper of the French poets , and of the wits of Charles the Second . The in- stinct was ...
... Greek , or less learned , than the character of his god Bacchus . There is a philological learning evinced in the ... Greeks : he is the jolly toper of the French poets , and of the wits of Charles the Second . The in- stinct was ...
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... Greek ; And then perhaps I shall not scorn to make Peace with him , and will booze like Hans and Herman After the usage German : And ' midst our bellying bottles and vast flasks There shall be present at our tasks For lofty arbiter ...
... Greek ; And then perhaps I shall not scorn to make Peace with him , and will booze like Hans and Herman After the usage German : And ' midst our bellying bottles and vast flasks There shall be present at our tasks For lofty arbiter ...
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... Greeks and Romans ; but then " Jew is not obliged to write like Virgil . " It would have been a great pity , if the Jew had been ; for we should have been deprived of some of the noblest varieties of poetry in the world . • Luckily for ...
... Greeks and Romans ; but then " Jew is not obliged to write like Virgil . " It would have been a great pity , if the Jew had been ; for we should have been deprived of some of the noblest varieties of poetry in the world . • Luckily for ...
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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...