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Page 365 - Economic activity, industry, and trade, deprived of the security of the first and second centuries, had declined at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries...
Page 407 - O greatest Jove, grant me to appear a husband worthy of Panthea, and a friend worthy of Cyrus who has done us so much honor!
Page 45 - ... apples, as languishing with love, fell down upon the ground; and that the Sun, as a lover of beauty unveiled, did strive to undress and turn the rurals all naked. By all these was Daphnis inflamed, and therefore often he goes to the rivers and brooks, there to bathe and cool himself, or to chase the fish that went to and fro in the water.
Page 21 - Hearing how the birds did chant it, they began to carol too, and seeing how the lambs skipt, tript their light and nimble measures. Then, to emulate the bees, they fall to cull the fairest flowers ; some of which in toysome sport they cast in one another's bosoms, and of some platted garlands for the Nymphs ; 10.
Page 71 - I gave over fields and herds to dresse and trim it, has been my care and entertainment ; what flowers or fruits the season of the year teems, there they are at every season. In the Spring there are Roses, and Lilies, the Hyacinths, and both the forms of Violets. In the Summer, Poppies, Pears, and all sorts of Apples. And now in the Autumne, Vines and Fig trees, Pomegranats, Oranges, Limons, and the green myrtles.
Page 414 - on good novels, we are bored with their rude predecessors of antiquity. ... Of psychology there is barely a trace . . . any attempt indeed at character-drawing is faint and rough.