 | Literature - 1825 - 620 pages
...number of beautifully sounding names of places, winds, &c. as in the following example : — ' Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd,' &c. be. be. " This aggregation of melodious names, is so characteristic of Milton,... | |
 | Frances Clarinda A. Cox - Camisards - 1825 - 1212 pages
...jonquils, narcissus, jasmine, and other flowers that embalm the air, equal, if not exceed those in that field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a. fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered. At the period of which I speak, this coun try had not yet recovered from the fatal... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal spring. Not that fair field 268 Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet grove... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 518 pages
...of extreme ilt health, and sought refuge and relief, for body and mind, in Nature's garden. « Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered ; . . . . nor that sweet grove Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspired Castalian spring,... | |
 | John Milton - Latin letters, Medieval and modern - 1829 - 130 pages
...who despises the opinions of the vulgar, in their erroneous estimation of things 1 , and dares 1 ' That fair field, 'Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, ' Herself, a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis ' Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain ' To seek her through the world.' Par. Lost, iv.... | |
 | Classical philology - 1829 - 336 pages
...Upajroyovij, Proserpina Primigena. 3 The earthly paradise, the residence of the first fair, was typified in that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered. And to be convinced that it was no improper emblem, we have but to read the descriptions... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain PARADIS PERDU, LIV. IV. ?.,y Source de voluptés et... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, hy gloomy Dis 270 Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...leaves; while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet grove... | |
 | Theocritus - English poetry - 1836 - 450 pages
...is told in one of the Homeric hymns, by Ovid, and by Claudian. Milton thus alludes to it — " Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her thro' the world ; nor that sweet grova... | |
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Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world... 
