 | John Milton - 1910 - 214 pages
...may remember Vergil's description (^£«. VI. 673 — 5) of the lives of the blessed in Elysium, " In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds By crystal streams, that murmur through the meads" (Dryden). 653, 654. pavilions, tents (see G.), tabernacles having the same sense ; from Lat. tabernaculum,... | |
 | Virgil - Epic poetry, Latin - 1909 - 492 pages
...happy souls reside. In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds, By crystal streams, that murmur thro' the meads: But pass yon easy hill, and thence descend;...This said, he led them up the mountain's brow, And shews them all the shining fields below. They wind the hill, and thro' the blissful meadows go. But... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1122 pages
...happy souls reside. In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds, By crystal streams, that murmur thro' the meads: But pass yon easy hill, and thence descend;...journey's end." This said, he led them up the mountain's "j brow, And shews them all the shining fields I below. i" They wind the hUl, and thro' the blissful... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...abodes, and cross'd the bitter lake ? " vie, By crystal streams, that murmur thro' the meads: But pas« yon easy hill, and thence descend ; The path conducts...journey's end." This said, he led them up the mountain's 1 brow, And shews them all the shining fields I below. f They wind the hill, and thro' the blissful... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...groves we live, and lie on mossy beds, By crystal streams, that murmur thro' tbe meads: But pass you easy hill, and thence descend; The path conducts you...end." This said, he led them up the mountain's ) brow, I And shews them all the shining fields I below. f They wind the hill, and thro' the blissful meadows... | |
 | Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1909 - 454 pages
...sought the dark abodes, and cross'd the bitter lake?" To this the sacred poet thus replied: "In no fix'd place the happy souls reside. In groves we live, and...lie on mossy beds, By crystal streams, that murmur thro' the meads: But pass yon easy hill, and thence descend; The path conducts you to your journey's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...the dark abodes, and cross'd the bitter lake ? " To this the sacred poet thus replied: " In no fix'd e# % , ,yP B #^ 6FA {m g 5 xr ڝ( -/ Y Q W $? > zX~x g. _V ^#?| thro' the meads: But pass yon easy hill, and thence descend; The path conducts you to your journey's... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1910 - 832 pages
...We may remember Vergil's description (Mneid vi. 673—75) of the lives of the blessed in Elysium: \ "In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds By crystal streams, that murmur through the meads" (Dryden). ^53, 654. pavilions, tents = tabernacles (from Lat. tabernactelitm, a dimin. of taberna,... | |
 | John Keble - Classical poetry - 1912 - 544 pages
...1282-2 E e the fair grassy swards, — as Musaeus declares when asked about Anchises above : In no fix'd place the happy souls reside, In groves we live, and...By crystal streams, that murmur through the meads ; 1 — but he even makes no scruple of introducing his own country's familiar Eridanus into the very... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - Nature in the Bible - 1915 - 246 pages
...the ^Eneid, when Virgil in describing the Elysian fields drops thus into the imagery of nature : ' ' In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds By crystal streams that murmur through the meads." Wordsworth's pagan, therefore, did greatly appreciate natural beauty, but there should be in this no... | |
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Say, happy souls ! divine Musaeus ! say, Where lives Anchises, and where lies our way To find the hero, for whose only sake We sought the dark abodes, and cross'd the bitter lake." To this the sacred poet thus replied : " In no fix'd place the happy souls... 
