Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 Seiten |
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... wine , or a hamper of Tuscan sunshine , which is much the same thing ; so in default of being able to do this , I do what I can , and send you , for a new year's present , a trans- lation of a Tuscan bacchanal . May it give you a ...
... wine , or a hamper of Tuscan sunshine , which is much the same thing ; so in default of being able to do this , I do what I can , and send you , for a new year's present , a trans- lation of a Tuscan bacchanal . May it give you a ...
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... wine among the effects of a clergyman . I was in possession of Mr. Mathias's edition ; but here were the whole of the author's notes , learned and good natured as Selden over his cups ; and besides , here was the author himself , with ...
... wine among the effects of a clergyman . I was in possession of Mr. Mathias's edition ; but here were the whole of the author's notes , learned and good natured as Selden over his cups ; and besides , here was the author himself , with ...
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... Wine was my natural resource ; but such a wine as my duties com- pelled me to traffic in , and my health could drink with the least injury ; and here , in the poet's glass , I found it . My wine metaphorical , and my wine literal , were ...
... Wine was my natural resource ; but such a wine as my duties com- pelled me to traffic in , and my health could drink with the least injury ; and here , in the poet's glass , I found it . My wine metaphorical , and my wine literal , were ...
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... of the time ; his wine such as every body was acquainted with ; the learned Notes are brought in afterwards like the dessert , and contain a curiosity and minute criti- cism worthy of the table of Varro . The great PREFACE . xvii.
... of the time ; his wine such as every body was acquainted with ; the learned Notes are brought in afterwards like the dessert , and contain a curiosity and minute criti- cism worthy of the table of Varro . The great PREFACE . xvii.
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... wine , and yet 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 ...
... wine , and yet 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 ...
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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...