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Achilles Adrastus Ægina altar ancient ANTISTROPHE Apollo Arcesilaus Argos Athenians Athens Battus brave brazen called celebrated chariot chariot-race contest Corinth Cronus crown crown'd Cyrene daughter deeds deity Delphi divine Dorian e'en Eacus EPODE Euphemus fame father favour feast festival fortune gifts glorious glory goddess gods golden grace Greece Greeks grove hand hast hath heaven Heracles Hercules heroes Hesiod Hiero Homer honour horses hymn illustrious Isthmian games Jove Jove's Jupiter king Locrians lyre mighty mortal mountain Muse Nemea Nemean Nemean Games Neptune o'er Olympia Olympic ode oracle Pancratium passage Paus Pausanias Peleus Pelops Pindar plain poet praise prize Pyth Pythian games Pytho race renown round sacred Scholiast shrine sing sire song sons soul sprung steeds strain stro STROPHE sung sweet tells temple Theban Thebes thee Theron thou Thrasybulus throne toil Trav victory viii Virtue's virtues wreaths Xenocrates youth Zeus
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Page 219 - The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 305 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 168 - Of depth immeasurable : anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 305 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 297 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, * Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...
Page xiv - Sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs, Enchanting shell ! the sullen Cares And frantic Passions hear thy soft control. On...
Page 174 - The schools of ancient sages ; his who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next : There...
Page 303 - But is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? Your mob can do this as well at least as your assemblies. The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
Page 305 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt Isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the Deep...
Page 271 - ... not here : in faithless scale she weighs Her weak pretence 'gainst Merit's claim, And in the struggle to be blest Oft guides the wandering poniard's aim, E'en to her own unguarded breast. 'Tis temperate Wisdom's care With light contented heart to...