Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients

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E. Stock, 1896 - 258 páginas

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Página 65 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Página 173 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Página 77 - Even all the nation of unfortunate And fatall birds about them flocked were...
Página 112 - He rolls his mournful eyes ; he deeply groans With patient sobbing, and with manly moans. He heaves for breath ; which, from his lungs supplied, And fetched from far, distends his labouring side.
Página 46 - Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him...
Página 66 - Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district...
Página 125 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Página 246 - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling), must drink brandy.
Página 233 - And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive, not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the traditions of more ancient nations came, at length, into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks.
Página 72 - Upon this, the king did neither rebuke them nor reject their impious flattery. But...

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