A New Poetical Translation Of All The Odes Of Horace The Four Books And Carmen Seculare By W Green

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1777 edition. Excerpt: ...would have been the consequence, viz. the same which befel the Titan brood--and then, naturally enough, persues his subject, alluding in the combats of the giants, to the wars with Marc Antony, Brutus, Pompey, &c. 'a.''jl hi iM With Fulmen, to th' abyss, persu'd. Of Tartarus below. 13. (whom, Earth inert, and heaven obey, And Stygian realms devoid of day, Tempestuous winds and raging seas, 7$ The mortal and immortal race, And o'er immensity of space, The ONE forever just and good, % Who rules all nature with his nod.) 14, They on their hundred hands relying, 80 With mountains pil'd on mountains, strove, And the Olympian powers defying, Alarm'd Saturnian Jove. j 5. But, what could all the force of nature, Porphyrion, thy unwieldy stature, 85 And what--Enceladus could wield, The boldest champion of the field, 'Gainst Pallas' sounding, Gorgon-shield? 16. And the majestic Juno's ire, Vulcan, devouring God, of fire? 9 And Neptune, thy tridental blow, Whom, raging whirlwinds follow, And ever-graced with (houlder'd bow, The Augur King Apollo? 17. Who, in Castalias' dewy waves, 9$ His flowing golden tresies laves, t The ONE, forever & A 'enble xPressiW " Heathen poet. Who Who loves his natal wood, And Lycian, Delian abode, High Patarean God? 18. A great unwieldy body's force, ioo In want of conduct, fails of course, Whilst, wise-attemper'd works succeed; The Gods on high, assist the deed, Detesting brutal powers combin'd, With fiend-like sacrilegious mind. 105 Jo. Briareus, with his hundred hands, Of sacred truths, a witness stands, And Who, the chastity of Dian Attempted, infamous Oriori By virgin arrow stain, 110 And Tityus, from whose lustful heart, The keeper bird shall ne'er depart, Unrespited the gnawing pain, And...

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