| Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 pàgines
...sum piper. PERS. Sat. 5 The greedy merchants, led by lucre, run To the parch'd Indies and the rising sun , From thence hot pepper, and rich drugs they bear, Bart'ring for spices their Italian ware. DRYDEN. You have given us some quotations out of Persius this morning, says Eugenius, that, in n\y... | |
| John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...repell'd by Jove. What star I know not, but some star I find, M Has given thee an ascendant o'er my mind. den same : The greedy merchants, led by lucre, run To the parch'd Indies, and the rising sun ; *° From... | |
| John Dryden - 1887 - 420 pàgines
...What star I know not, but some star, I find, 65 Has given thee an ascendant o'er my mind. CORNUTUS. Nature is ever various in her frame ; Each has a different will, and few the same. The greedy merchants, led by lucre, run To the parched Indies, and the rising sun ; 70 From thence... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1914 - 518 pàgines
...productions of the same country. Mercibus hie ItaTu mutat tub so/t recenti Rugosum piper Id. Sat. 5. The greedy Merchants, led by lucre, run To the parch'd Indies and the rising Sun ; From thence hot pepper, and rich drugs they bear, Bart'ring for spices their ItaRan ware.... | |
| Frank J. Swetz - 1987 - 372 pàgines
...demand. The value of pepper has a long history in Europe. Persius (AD 34-62), the Roman satirist, noted: The greedy merchants, led by lucre run To the parch'd Indies and the rising sun; From thence hot Pepper and rich Drugs they bear, Bart'ring for Spices their Italian ware.... | |
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