Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 Seiten |
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... French poets , and of the wits of Charles the Second . The in- stinct was judicious . His deity was the deity of the time ; his wine such as every body was acquainted with ; the learned Notes are brought in afterwards like the dessert ...
... French poets , and of the wits of Charles the Second . The in- stinct was judicious . His deity was the deity of the time ; his wine such as every body was acquainted with ; the learned Notes are brought in afterwards like the dessert ...
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... than in the ortho- doxy and strange cynicism , equally volatile , of the French . Since Alfieri created a dramatic spirit among his countrymen , Shakspeare has found an access in Italy , which he only wanted NOTES . 95.
... than in the ortho- doxy and strange cynicism , equally volatile , of the French . Since Alfieri created a dramatic spirit among his countrymen , Shakspeare has found an access in Italy , which he only wanted NOTES . 95.
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... translate him well . The French began to speak with admiration of Milton , partly because Voltaire wanted them to like epics of all sorts , ( for the sake of puzzling opinion , and introducing the steanade ) , and partly 96 NOTES .
... translate him well . The French began to speak with admiration of Milton , partly because Voltaire wanted them to like epics of all sorts , ( for the sake of puzzling opinion , and introducing the steanade ) , and partly 96 NOTES .
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... French world . Nature and art both must come and draw at their toilet . The Abbe Delille made Adam talk as if he went about Eden in a cocked hat . Spencer would not do in French . The languid part of his essence would evaporate into ...
... French world . Nature and art both must come and draw at their toilet . The Abbe Delille made Adam talk as if he went about Eden in a cocked hat . Spencer would not do in French . The languid part of his essence would evaporate into ...
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... French think that the highest mode of drinking it is without sugar , which by a passage in Redi's work appears to have been also the notion among his cotempo- raries . The common mode however was to take it as we do now ; only the sugar ...
... French think that the highest mode of drinking it is without sugar , which by a passage in Redi's work appears to have been also the notion among his cotempo- raries . The common mode however was to take it as we do now ; only the sugar ...
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ancient Arezzo Ariadne Ariosto Avignon Bacchus Bacco in Toscana beautiful bitter and guilty Boccaccio called Catullus celebrated Chianti chocolate claret coffee coocooroocoo Cosmo the Third dance dare delight Della Cruscan Dictionary Dithyrambic divine drink English exquisite eyes Fiesole fifth element Filicaia flask Florence Flower FRANCESCO REDI French gentle give glass goblet grapes Greek hath heaven hill Italian Italy lady Latin Laurentian Library Livorno Magalotti Maiano Menzini mighty Milton Montepulciano Motett Muscadel natural never Note one's opium passage perhaps Petrarch physician pleasant poco poem poet poetical poetry praise prince quotes reader Redi says Redi's rhyme round scent settle in Port shew sing song sonnet sort speak spirit sweet talk taste thee thing thou translation tresses Tuscany Vallombrosa Verdea verses villa vines vineyards Virgil wine wines of Tuscany writing
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Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 214 - Oh, never Shall we two exercise, like twins of Honour, Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses, Like proud seas under us...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 107 - tis, That in the drinking Swallowed thinking, And was the receipt for bliss. Thence it is, that ever and aye, When he doth...