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But Francis Cazana refusing, Diaz returned to Tercera, where he procured a ship, with the assistance of Luke de Cazana, and went out two or three times above an hundred leagues to the west, but found nothing. To these may be added, the attempts made by Caspar and Michael de Cortereal, sons to him who discovered the island of Tenera; but they were lost in searching for this land.
This I suppose from the Tenuity of the Air on the top of the Mountain Tenera, where 'tis said none can inhabit on that account.
All things necessary being provided, and the Palanquins of Provisions being sent before to join us at the Mountain Tenera, I had an Audience of Leave of his Imperial Majesty and his Squabbaws; after which, I went to receive my last Instructions from his Excellency. He gave me a Paper, with Orders not to open it, till I was arrived at the Mountain, which was about a Thousand Miles from the City.
Virgil had that love of rivers which, I think, a poet is rarely without; and it did not need Greece to teach him to sing of the fields: Propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus Mincius et tenera praetexit arundine ripas. "By the water-side, where mighty Mincius wanders, with links and loops, and fringes all the banks with the tender reed."
Crowe, in a note to one of his eloquent Crewian Orations, "Ode tenera, simplex, venusta," "tender, simple, and beautiful." In 1745 he published his Pastoral Eclogues, which Mr.
La bella ninfa e sorda al mio lamento E'l suon di nostra fistula non cura: Di cio si lagna il mio cornuto armento, Ne vuol bagnare il grifo in acqua pura Ne vuol toccar la tenera verdura; Tanto del suo pastor gl'incresce e dole." The two introductory lines preface each stanza. This first one is thus translated by Symonds, whose English version is here used throughout.
" ... cana legam tenera lanugine mala Castaneasque nuces ..." then, I think, we shall be disposed to say that in Shakespeare's "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine " it is mainly a Greek note which is struck. Then, again in his
. . . cana legam tenera lanugine mala Castaneasque nuces . . . then, I think, we shall be disposed to say that in Shakspeare's I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine it is mainly a Greek note which is struck. Then, again in his:
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