Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - Всего страниц: 228 |
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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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Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 214 - Oh, never Shall we two exercise, like twins of Honour, Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses, Like proud seas under us...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 107 - tis, That in the drinking Swallowed thinking, And was the receipt for bliss. Thence it is, that ever and aye, When he doth...