The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and TheognisH.G. Bohn, 1856 - 495 pages |
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... divine fore- time into a systematic sequence . " If it be an imperfect at- tempt , it is yet more connected and coherent than the passing notices of gods and goddesses which are scattered up and down the Iliad and the Odyssey , whilst ...
... divine fore- time into a systematic sequence . " If it be an imperfect at- tempt , it is yet more connected and coherent than the passing notices of gods and goddesses which are scattered up and down the Iliad and the Odyssey , whilst ...
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... divine race of heroes , nor yet identify the warriors before Thebes and Troy with the golden , silver , or brazen age . As ancestors of all the chief living men of the poet's age , they claimed a nearness to the present generation , and ...
... divine race of heroes , nor yet identify the warriors before Thebes and Troy with the golden , silver , or brazen age . As ancestors of all the chief living men of the poet's age , they claimed a nearness to the present generation , and ...
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... divine mount of Helicon , and also with delicate feet dance about the violet - hued fount 3 and altars of the mighty son of Cronos : 4 and likewise having bathed their soft skins in the Permessus , or Hippocrene , or sacred Olmius , 5 6 ...
... divine mount of Helicon , and also with delicate feet dance about the violet - hued fount 3 and altars of the mighty son of Cronos : 4 and likewise having bathed their soft skins in the Permessus , or Hippocrene , or sacred Olmius , 5 6 ...
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... and Venus . Perhaps they were different names of the same goddess in different parts of Greece . 5 Iapetus , the Titan , though not worshipped in Greece , as the os beneath divine Helicon . But first of all the 2 7-19 . HESIOD .
... and Venus . Perhaps they were different names of the same goddess in different parts of Greece . 5 Iapetus , the Titan , though not worshipped in Greece , as the os beneath divine Helicon . But first of all the 2 7-19 . HESIOD .
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... divine , that I might sing of both the future5 and the d they bade me hymn the race of ever - living blessed but first and last ever to sing of themselves . Yet why d these tales be told by me touching the sacred oak , 7 or gods here ...
... divine , that I might sing of both the future5 and the d they bade me hymn the race of ever - living blessed but first and last ever to sing of themselves . Yet why d these tales be told by me touching the sacred oak , 7 or gods here ...
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Page 35 - Yet half his strength he put not forth, but check'd His thunder in mid volley; for he meant Not to destroy, but root them out of heaven...
Page 234 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter...
Page 125 - And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Page 104 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 230 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 430 - For profit and increase, at anv price : Of a sound stock, without defect or vice. But, in the daily matches that we make. The price is everything : for money's sake, Men marry : women are in marriage given The churl or ruffian, that in wealth has thriven, May match his offspring with the proudest race: Thus everything is mix'd, noble and base ! If then in outward manner, form, and mind, You find us a degraded, motley kind, Wonder no more, my friend ! the cause is plain, And to lament the consequence...
Page 225 - Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam : usque ego postera Crescam laude recens dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex.
Page 227 - My train are men of choice and rarest parts, That all particulars of duty know, And in the most exact regard support The worships of their name.
Page 85 - Thus the hawk addressed the nightingale of variegated-throat, as he carried her in his talons, when he had caught her, very high in the clouds. She then, pierced on all sides by his crooked talons, was wailing piteously, whilst he victoriously addressed his speech to her. "Wretch, wherefore criest thou?
Page 431 - Our commonwealth preserves its former frame, Our common people are no more the same. They, that in skins and hides were rudely dress'd, Nor dreamt of law, nor sought to be redress'd By rules of right, but in the days of old Flock'd to the town, like cattle to the fold, Are now the brave and wise.