Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 Seiten |
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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 ; 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 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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admiration afterwards ancient Ariadne Ariosto Avignon Bacchus Bacco in Toscana beautiful better bitter and guilty Boccaccio called Catullus celebrated Chianti chocolate coffee coocooroocoo Cosmo the Third dance Dante delight Della Cruscan Dithyrambic divine Don Quixote drink English exquisite eyes Fiesole Filicaia flask Florence Flower FRANCESCO REDI gentle give glass grapes Greek H. L. HUNT hath heaven Hermo hill Italian Italy king lady Latin Magalotti Maiano Menzini mighty Milton Montepulciano Muscadel nature never Note one's opium passage perhaps Petrarch physician pleasant poco poem poet poetical poetry praise prince Quixote quotes reader Redi says Redi's rhyme round Salvini sarcophagus Scott Waring settle in Port shew sing song sonnet sort speak spirit sweet taste thee thing thou Tis Phyllis translation tresses Tuscany Vallombrosa Verdea verses villa vine vineyards wine wines of Tuscany
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Seite 124 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O 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...
Seite 90 - 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...
Seite 68 - 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...
Seite 204 - Oh, never Shall we two exercise, like twins of Honour, Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses, Like proud seas under us...
Seite 50 - 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.
Seite 133 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Seite 92 - 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.
Seite 97 - Tis the true old Aurum Potabile Gilding life when it wears shabbily : Helen's old Nepenthe 'tis, That in the drinking Swallowed thinking, And was the receipt for bliss.
Seite v - Medicine così fatte Non saran giammai per me. Beverei prima il veleno, Che un bicchier che fosse pieno Dell'amaro e reo caffè. Colà tra gli Arabi, E tra i Giannizzeri Liquor sì ostico, * Sì nero e torbido Gli schiavi ingollino: Giù nel Tartaro, Giù nell...
Seite 209 - ... roar; I see a ship afar: Tossing and tossing, and making to the shore: But what's that I view, So radiant of hue, St Hermo, St Hermo, that sits upon the sails? Ah! No, no, no. St Hermo never, never shone so bright; 'Tis Phillis, only Phillis, can shoot so fair a light; 'Tis Phillis, 'tis Phillis, that saves the ship alone, For all the winds are hush'd, and the storm is overblown.