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... brood appear , Nor wood - pecks , nor the swallow harbour near . They wafte the swarms , and as they fly along Convey the tender morfels to their young , C Let Let purling ftreams , and fountains edg'd with moss , [ 17 ]
... brood appear , Nor wood - pecks , nor the swallow harbour near . They wafte the swarms , and as they fly along Convey the tender morfels to their young , C Let Let purling ftreams , and fountains edg'd with moss , [ 17 ]
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... young with strange delight , And knead the yielding wax , and work the flimy sweet . But when on high you see the bees repair , Borne on the wind , through distant tracts of air , And view the winged cloud all blackening from afar ...
... young with strange delight , And knead the yielding wax , and work the flimy sweet . But when on high you see the bees repair , Borne on the wind , through distant tracts of air , And view the winged cloud all blackening from afar ...
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... young god nurft kindly under - ground . Of all the wing'd inhabitants of air , Thefe only make their young the public care ; In well - difpos'd focieties they live , And laws and statutes regulate their hive Nor ftray , like others ...
... young god nurft kindly under - ground . Of all the wing'd inhabitants of air , Thefe only make their young the public care ; In well - difpos'd focieties they live , And laws and statutes regulate their hive Nor ftray , like others ...
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... young at night , returning from their toils , Bring home their thighs clog'd with the meadows fpoils . On lavender and faffron - buds they feed , On bending ofiers , and the balmy reed : From From purple violets and the teile they bring ...
... young at night , returning from their toils , Bring home their thighs clog'd with the meadows fpoils . On lavender and faffron - buds they feed , On bending ofiers , and the balmy reed : From From purple violets and the teile they bring ...
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... young without a mother's pain . From herbs and flowers they pick each tender bee , And cull from plants a buzzing progeny ; From these they choose out fubjects , and create A little monarch of the rifing state ; 33 Then Then build wax ...
... young without a mother's pain . From herbs and flowers they pick each tender bee , And cull from plants a buzzing progeny ; From these they choose out fubjects , and create A little monarch of the rifing state ; 33 Then Then build wax ...
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Page 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 329 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 330 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page 45 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Page 153 - Who now appear'd but one continu'd wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Page 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Page 100 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Page 210 - Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses...
Page 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Page 278 - Rome will rejoice, and cast its eyes on Cato, As on the second of mankind. CATO. No more! I must not think of life on such conditions. DEC. Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, And therefore sets this value on your life: Let him but know the price of Cato's friendship, And name your terms.