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Behoves no more , But fidelong , to the gentle.waving wind , To lay the well - tund instrument inclin'd ; From which , with airy - flying fingers light , Beyond each mortal touch the most refin'd , The god of winds drew sounds of deep ...
Behoves no more , But fidelong , to the gentle.waving wind , To lay the well - tund instrument inclin'd ; From which , with airy - flying fingers light , Beyond each mortal touch the most refin'd , The god of winds drew sounds of deep ...
Page 257
... and encloses the adverse winds in bag ; but his companions untying it to see what wealth it contained , the winds ... back again to the same island , where they again petition Æolus for more favourable winds ; but are rejected .
... and encloses the adverse winds in bag ; but his companions untying it to see what wealth it contained , the winds ... back again to the same island , where they again petition Æolus for more favourable winds ; but are rejected .
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The description which Virgil gives us of a storm raised by Æolur , at the request of Juno to destroy the feet of Æneas , is , I think , niuch to be admired . That God , having pierced with his spear , the mountain where the winds are ...
The description which Virgil gives us of a storm raised by Æolur , at the request of Juno to destroy the feet of Æneas , is , I think , niuch to be admired . That God , having pierced with his spear , the mountain where the winds are ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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