Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic PoemJ. and H.L. Hunt, 1825 - 228 էջ |
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Էջ vii
... drink again , and keep up the excitement . " I was obliged to take care how I took too long a draught of the Bacco ; but in Tuscany it was impossible not to have the excite- ment kept up . Almost every place I visited had some connexion ...
... drink again , and keep up the excitement . " I was obliged to take care how I took too long a draught of the Bacco ; but in Tuscany it was impossible not to have the excite- ment kept up . Almost every place I visited had some connexion ...
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... drinking , and had become very sick and corpulent in the prime of life : it was thought he would not survive . His physician set him upon a Pytha- gorean regimen , and by temperance and exercise kept him alive and strong to eighty years ...
... drinking , and had become very sick and corpulent in the prime of life : it was thought he would not survive . His physician set him upon a Pytha- gorean regimen , and by temperance and exercise kept him alive and strong to eighty years ...
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... drinking so little wine , and yet writing so well upon it , it is a triumph for Bacchus instead of a dishonour . It only shews how little wine will suffice to set a genial brain in motion . A poet has wine in his blood . The laurel and ...
... drinking so little wine , and yet writing so well upon it , it is a triumph for Bacchus instead of a dishonour . It only shews how little wine will suffice to set a genial brain in motion . A poet has wine in his blood . The laurel and ...
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... drinking - bout , in like manner , is enough to initi- ate a poet in all the fervours and fancies of a thousand . If he takes his glass afterwards , it is from good fellow- ship , or from the fancy he brings with him , or from any ...
... drinking - bout , in like manner , is enough to initi- ate a poet in all the fervours and fancies of a thousand . If he takes his glass afterwards , it is from good fellow- ship , or from the fancy he brings with him , or from any ...
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... a delicious vine That makes one live twice over . Drink it , Ariadne mine , And sweet as you are , ' Twill make you so sweet , so perfect and fair , You'll be Venus at her best , Venus Venusissimest . 4 BACCHUS IN TUSCANY .
... a delicious vine That makes one live twice over . Drink it , Ariadne mine , And sweet as you are , ' Twill make you so sweet , so perfect and fair , You'll be Venus at her best , Venus Venusissimest . 4 BACCHUS IN TUSCANY .
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Էջ 124 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Էջ 90 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Էջ 68 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Էջ 204 - Oh, never Shall we two exercise, like twins of Honour, Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses, Like proud seas under us...
Էջ 50 - Some few vapours thou may'st raise. The weak brain may serve to amaze, But to the reins and nobler heart Canst nor life nor heat impart. Brother of Bacchus, later born, The old world was sure forlorn Wanting thee, that aidest more The god's victories than before All his panthers, and the brawls Of his piping Bacchanals.
Էջ 133 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Էջ 92 - But come; for thou, be sure, shalt give account To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep This place inviolable, and these from harm.
Էջ 97 - Tis the true old Aurum Potabile Gilding life when it wears shabbily : Helen's old Nepenthe 'tis, That in the drinking Swallowed thinking, And was the receipt for bliss.
Էջ v - Medicine così fatte Non saran giammai per me. Beverei prima il veleno, Che un bicchier che fosse pieno Dell'amaro e reo caffè. Colà tra gli Arabi, E tra i Giannizzeri Liquor sì ostico, * Sì nero e torbido Gli schiavi ingollino: Giù nel Tartaro, Giù nell...
Էջ 209 - ... roar; I see a ship afar: Tossing and tossing, and making to the shore: But what's that I view, So radiant of hue, St Hermo, St Hermo, that sits upon the sails? Ah! No, no, no. St Hermo never, never shone so bright; 'Tis Phillis, only Phillis, can shoot so fair a light; 'Tis Phillis, 'tis Phillis, that saves the ship alone, For all the winds are hush'd, and the storm is overblown.