Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world... Plutarch's Lives - Page 112by Plutarch - 1816Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers Herself a fairer flow'r by gloomy Dis 170 Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To icelt her through the world;... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers Herself a fairer flow'r by gloomy Uis 270 Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 798 pages
...away Proserpine from the fields of Enna in Sicily. Thus Milton, Paradise Lcut, book 4 Ter. 2d9. not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gatlier'd, which cost Ceres all tLatpan To seek her through the world &e also Ovid's Metamorphoses,... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek Tier through the world; nor that sweet grove,... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...number of beautifully sounding names of places, winds, &c. as in the following example : . ——Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy t)is Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet grove... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that feir field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Wai gather'd, which cost Ceres all that paiu Ta «eak I.IT through tie wotld ; nor that t w«et grove... | |
| Plutarch - 1811 - 352 pages
...conjecturing the methods which he used upon the occasion. ( Astron. Mod. i 19, 21.)* 57 For the beavity of this Sicilian city, and the fertility of the Surrounding...gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gnther'd '" '(Milt. PL iv. 267.) See Cie. adv. Verr. de Signis,- for its treachery to the Romans,... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours, hi dance Led on tlT eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flowY, by gloomy Dis 270 Was gnther'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek hc-r throngh the world... | |
| Patrick Brydone - 1817 - 552 pages
...these authorities, if you please you may add that of Milton, who compares it to paradise itself: Nor that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered If you want to have a fuller account of this place, you will find it in Cicero's pleadings... | |
| 1818 - 628 pages
...— but in how much fewer words, and in what a different manner, does Milton tell the same story ! " That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dii Was gather'd." We shall only add another extract, which approaches the confines of sublimity. The... | |
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