Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 páginas |
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... thoughts which I had upon me in Florence , cast too heavy a shade upon my spirit . I did not dare to trust myself with the great poets of Italy , nor even with the tenderness of Boccaccio . Wine was my natural resource ; but such a wine ...
... thoughts which I had upon me in Florence , cast too heavy a shade upon my spirit . I did not dare to trust myself with the great poets of Italy , nor even with the tenderness of Boccaccio . Wine was my natural resource ; but such a wine ...
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... thought he would not survive . His physician set him upon a Pytha- gorean regimen , and by temperance and exercise kept him alive and strong to eighty years of age . The Duke was very sensible of his diminished liver and increased ...
... thought he would not survive . His physician set him upon a Pytha- gorean regimen , and by temperance and exercise kept him alive and strong to eighty years of age . The Duke was very sensible of his diminished liver and increased ...
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... thoughts , he might have done something with the word Tobacco , which is Bac- chanalian in it's composition . There is an imitation of the Bacco in Toscana , in praise of Tobacco , which should have been called Tobacco in Italia . It is ...
... thoughts , he might have done something with the word Tobacco , which is Bac- chanalian in it's composition . There is an imitation of the Bacco in Toscana , in praise of Tobacco , which should have been called Tobacco in Italia . It is ...
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... thought as great a vice here , as gallantry is with us . It is a pity that these wines are not brought into En- gland , for they certainly could be . Some of them can be made as strong as port , for those who want a " hot intoxicating ...
... thought as great a vice here , as gallantry is with us . It is a pity that these wines are not brought into En- gland , for they certainly could be . Some of them can be made as strong as port , for those who want a " hot intoxicating ...
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... - days ' parching heat that splits the rocks , " Are half so harmful as the greedy flocks , 6 . Their venom'd bite , and scars indented on the stocks . " DRYDEN . I thought Dryden had borrowed this fine idea of the NOTES . 77.
... - days ' parching heat that splits the rocks , " Are half so harmful as the greedy flocks , 6 . Their venom'd bite , and scars indented on the stocks . " DRYDEN . I thought Dryden had borrowed this fine idea of the NOTES . 77.
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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...