 | British poets - 1822 - 330 páginas
...level Troade bound, With Nepe's plain, Adraste's walls around. An ancient vine, within a neighbouring wood, Where first it flourish'd, had for ages stood...and polish takes from Argus' toil ; An image of the goddess6', form'd with skill, They place it high upon a craggy hill, O'erarching broad where stately... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 322 páginas
...level Troade bound, With Nep6's plain, Adraste's walls around. An ancient vine, within a neighbouring wood, Where first it flourish'd, had for ages stood;...parent soil, A shape and polish takes from Argus' toil; Then shall the tempests cease to vex the main, So halcyon sings, who never sings in vain, [night, For,... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 páginas
...twisted branch of a withered vine, and polished it skilfully as a sacred idol."—OEPH. Arg. v. 610. " An ancient vine within a neighb'ring wood, Where first...flourish'd had for ages stood; The stock uprooted from its parent soil A shape and polish takes from Argus' toil; An image of the goddess, form'd with skill,... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 888 páginas
...polished it skilfully as a sacred idol." — OUPH. Arg. v. 010. " An ancient vine within a noighb'ring wood, Where first it flourish'd had for ages stood ; The stock uprooted from its parent soil A shape and polish takes from Argus' toil ; An image of the goddess, form'd with skill,... | |
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The stock uprooted from its parent soil A shape and polish takes from Argus' toil; An image of the goddess, form'd with skill, They place it high upon a craggy hill, O'erarching broad where stately beeches grow, That deeply shoot their twisted roots below.... 