Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 páginas |
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... late Grand Duke Leopold , the most popular Prince of the house of Austria , who abolished the punishment of death . Of him the story is told , that talking one day with a foreigner , who was telling him how mad people went about un ...
... late Grand Duke Leopold , the most popular Prince of the house of Austria , who abolished the punishment of death . Of him the story is told , that talking one day with a foreigner , who was telling him how mad people went about un ...
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... the territory of Sienna . Every thing seems to run into the sweet and dulcet in that quarter . The Siennese pronunciation is the sweetest in Tuscany .. The late Mr. West , the painter told me , that when he was travelling 92 NOTES .
... the territory of Sienna . Every thing seems to run into the sweet and dulcet in that quarter . The Siennese pronunciation is the sweetest in Tuscany .. The late Mr. West , the painter told me , that when he was travelling 92 NOTES .
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... late ministry ; the other a thriving specimen of good stout English peasantry and children , flourishing under a good natured lady of the manor , a kins- woman of the late John Wilkes . I do not mean to undervalue the Confessions above ...
... late ministry ; the other a thriving specimen of good stout English peasantry and children , flourishing under a good natured lady of the manor , a kins- woman of the late John Wilkes . I do not mean to undervalue the Confessions above ...
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... late , a hundred and seventy lines long , by Father Thomas Strozzi , " a great theologian and preacher . " The reverend author enters into all the details of his subject , historical and culinary , not without a good deal of elegance ...
... late , a hundred and seventy lines long , by Father Thomas Strozzi , " a great theologian and preacher . " The reverend author enters into all the details of his subject , historical and culinary , not without a good deal of elegance ...
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... late Mr. West , President of the Royal Academy , who had it from the mouth of Sir William Ha milton the ambassador . I believe I have told it some where before : but it will bear repetition . The royal mode of hunting in modern times is ...
... late Mr. West , President of the Royal Academy , who had it from the mouth of Sir William Ha milton the ambassador . I believe I have told it some where before : but it will bear repetition . The royal mode of hunting in modern times is ...
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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...