United States or North Korea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
However the fancy arose, it is only a parallel to the strange fancies as to spontaneous generation of all sorts of animals and plants current 200 years ago among civilised men. "Ore omnes versæ in Zephyrum stant rupibus altis Exceptantque leves auras et sæpe sine ullis Conjugiis vento gravidæ, mirabile dictu." Georgic iii. 275.
He published a translation of part of the fourth Georgic, Lines to King William, and other performances of equal value, that is to say, of no value at all. But in those days, the public was in the habit of receiving with applause pieces which would now have little chance of obtaining the Newdigate prize or the Seatonian prize. And the reason is obvious.
What vexed me was the old man's obdurate politeness towards Isabel, and her evident distress. But there came an evening when we finished the Fourth Georgic together. "Of tillage, timber, herds, and hives, thus far My trivial lay while Caesar thunders war To deep Euphrates, conquers, pacifies, Twice wins the world and now attempts the skies.
You will write me out a Georgic. No; on second thoughts, as you seem to like your brass instrument, you shall bring it up to my house every morning for ten days, and as the clock strikes seven, you shall play me "Home, Sweet Home" under my window."
"Dislike and contempt," said Upton, amidst general laughter. "Have you ever heard him say anything which implied a desire to injure him?" "The other day Mr. Gordon gave him a Georgic as an imposition, and I heard Williams say that he would like to pay him out." This last fact was new to the school, and excited a great sensation. "When did he say this?" "On Friday afternoon."
For my own part, I am rather of the opinion that they were added by Tucca and Varius, than retrenched. I know it may be answered by such as think Virgil the author of the four lines that he asserts his title to the "AEneis" in the beginning of this work, as he did to the two former, in the last lines of the fourth Georgic.
It is a monument of presumptuous infatuation that any one should feel so strongly as he did that order could only be restored on condition of coming to terms with religious use and prejudice, and then that he should dream that his Supreme Being a mere didactic phrase, the deity of a poet's georgic should adequately replace that eternal marvel of construction, by means of which the great churchmen had wrought dogma and liturgy and priest and holy office into every hour and every mood of men's lives.
Here in the south of England seven miles from the sea, in a dry and sunny climate, all apples develop a much more brilliant colour than in the moist climate of the Vale of Evesham. I fear that very few planters of fruit trees think of following the routine which Virgil describes in his second Georgic, as practised by the careful orchardist, when transplanting.
In return for this service, and for other services of the same kind, the veteran poet, in the postscript to the translation of the Aeniad complimented his young friend with great liberality, and indeed with more liberality than sincerity. He affected to be afraid that his own performance would not sustain a comparison with the version of the fourth Georgic, by "the most ingenious Mr.
And if you have read with some care the statement I gave you, with Carlyle's help, of the moment and manner of her change from savageness to dexterity, and from rudeness to refinement of life, you will hear, familiar as the lines are to you, the invocation in the first Georgic with a new sense of its meaning:
Word Of The Day