| William Holt Beever - 1870 - 258 páginas
...enjoy. I read in Pliny of his contemporary, the Italian hog, that, " Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons and they had no power, But were a kind of nutriment." For a venomous lizard that infected the very apples if it climbed the tree — the touch of whose foot... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...nutriment ; he lived Through that which had beendeathtomanymen. POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. 581 city of Cologne ; But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? dialogues : and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries ; To him the book of Night was opened... | |
| 1872 - 900 páginas
...him, until. Like to the Poutiac monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power, Hut but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. But mids 580 681 And made him friends of mountains ; with the stars And the quick Spirit of the universe He... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 páginas
...Pain was uiix'd In all which was served up to him, until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days,6 He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But were...stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues ; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries ; To him the book of Night was open'd... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 páginas
...Fontic monarch of old days, H« fed on poisons ; and they had no power, Bnt were a kind of nutriment. Ho labours past, shall clothe the scene. Edward Young.— Born 1681, dialogues ! and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries ; To him the book of Night was open'd... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 páginas
...contention ; pain was mixed In all which was served up te him, until, Like to the Pontiac monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But...lived Through that which had been death to many men. 580 POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. Ami made him friends of mountains ; with the stars And the quick... | |
| George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 1873 - 380 páginas
...Pain was inix'd In all whieh was served up to him, until, Like to the Pontie monareh of old days,9 He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But were a kind of nutriment; he lived Through that whieh had been death to many men, And made him friends of mountains : with the stars And the quiek... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 páginas
...Contention ; Pain was mixed In all which was served up to him ; until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons ; and they had no power, But were a kind of nutriment. 6. He lived Through that which had been death to many men ; And made him friends of mountains. With... | |
| 1873 - 758 páginas
...paid by speculative butchers to the pri/e pigs, who — Like to the Pontic Monarch of old days • Fed on poisons ; and they had no power, But Were a kind of nutriment ! And, pray, what willow/ a pig devour? In olden times Thomas Tusser warned pig breeders that — Through... | |
| Joseph Green Cogswell - 1874 - 414 páginas
...the vigor I felt and the spirits I had when leaping from cliff to cliff amid German clouds. Then I lived, " Through that which had been death to many men, And made me friends of mountains ; " and there I learnt to admire nature and be enchanted with the " magic of... | |
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