 | Catherine Mary Phillimore - 1898 - 252 pàgines
...formation of the universe and the origin of animals according to the Epicurean philosophy. ' He sang the secret seeds of Nature's frame, How seas and earth,...their fall Were blindly gathered in this goodly ball,' etc. DRYDEN'S Virgil, Pastoral vi. Dante, continuing the imaginary dialogue, puts these words into... | |
 | National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Annual Session - 1899 - 620 pàgines
...Silenus, who, I understand, was a lawyer, undertaking to instruct younger persons than himself: — " He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame, How Seas,...mighty void, and in their fall Were blindly gathered to this goodly ball." So our mystery was fully solved to my mind when I saw four State Boards in the... | |
 | National Conference on Social Welfare - 1899 - 620 pàgines
...Silenus, who, I understand, was a .lawyer, undertaking to instruct younger persons than himself: — " He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame, How Seas,...mighty void, and in their fall Were blindly gathered to this goodly ball." So our mystery was fully solved to my mind when I saw four State Boards in the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pàgines
...theThracian bard, 1 Nor awful Phœbus was on Pindus heard > With deeper silence, or with more regard. J He sung the secret seeds of nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, 50 Fell thro' the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball. The tender... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pàgines
...theThracian bard, Nor awful Phcebus was on Find us heard With deeper silence, or with more regard. of the spring; Let me with fun'ral flo w'rs his body strow ; "• This gift which pa tiame, 50 Fell thro' the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in tliis goodly ball.... | |
 | John Keble - 1912 - 544 pàgines
...he has, unless I am mistaken, left uncertain. Probably the song of Silenus has a similar reference : He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame ; How seas,...the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather 'd in this goodly ball.2 717 A strange subject, one would think, for a poem, had 1 Georg. ii.... | |
 | Virgil - 1917 - 398 pàgines
...heavens on his shoulders. He was skilled in astronomy. Personification of Mount Atlas. 24 : 25. Song. "He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame: How seas,...gathered in this goodly ball. The tender soil, then stiff'ning by degrees, Shut from the bounded earth, the bounding seas. Then earth and ocean various... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1919 - 320 pàgines
...deserves. Virgil recognised his value when he sang of him: ' He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frameHow seas, and earth, and air, and active flame Fell through...tender soil then stiffening by degrees Shut from the bounding earth the bounding seas. Then earth and ocean various forms disclose, And a new sun to a new... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1925 - 324 pàgines
...he has not received all the credit he deserves. Virgil recognised his value when he sang of him : ' He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame — How...tender soil then stiffening by degrees Shut from the bounding earth the bounding seas. Then earth and ocean various forms disclose, And a new sun to a new... | |
 | George Kish - 1978 - 482 pàgines
...a brief description of Creation, of the nature of the earth's zones, and of winds and their effect. He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame ; How seas,...the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball. The tender soil, then stiff'ning by degrees, Shut from the bounded earth... | |
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He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball. 
