The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or an Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ... By Mr. Rollin, ... Translated from the French. The Seventh Edition. ...W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes and W. Clarke and R. Collins, R. Horsfield [and 8 others in London], 1770 - Education |
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Page 280 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 334 - Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main: Strive all, of mortal, and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth Ye strive in vain ! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vast world hangs trembling in my sight!
Page 289 - Fleet as the Winds, and deck'd with golden Manes. Refulgent Arms his mighty Limbs infold, Immortal Arms, of Adamant and Gold. He mounts the Car, the golden Scourge applies; 40 He sits superior, and the Chariot flies. His whirling Wheels the glassy Surface sweep; Th...
Page 334 - Join all, and try th' omnipotence of Jove : Let down our golden everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main : Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth : Ye strive in vain ! If I but...
Page 309 - For him through hostile camps I bent my way, For him thus prostrate at thy feet I lay; Large gifts proportion'd to thy wrath I bear; O hear the wretched, and the gods revere! "Think of thy father, and this face behold! See him in me, as helpless and as old! Though not so wretched: there he yields to me, The first of men in sovereign misery!
Page 333 - Gash'd with dishonest wounds, the scorn of heaven; Or far, oh far from steep Olympus thrown. Low in the dark Tartarean gulf shall groan. With burning chains fix'd to the brazen floors, And lock'd by hell's inexorable doors; As deep beneath the infernal centre hurl'd, As from that centre to the ethereal world.
Page 295 - And placed the beaming helmet on the ground; Then kiss'd the child, and, lifting high in air, Thus to the gods preferr'da father's prayer: "O thou!
Page 309 - The scourge and ruin of my realm and race ; Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore...
Page 295 - Yet, while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee : Alas! my parents, brothers, kindred, all Once more will perish, if my Hector fall. Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger share: Oh prove a husband's and a father's care! That quarter most the skilful Greeks annoy, Where yon...
Page 308 - Nineteen one mother bore — Dead, all are dead ! How oft, alas ! has wretched Priam bled ? Still one was left, their loss to recompense...