 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...like a watcher by the dead. Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows — Swift from the first, and every moment brings New vigour to her flights,...pinions to her wings. Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size ; Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies. NATUBE'S TEACHINGS. To me the meanest flower that... | |
 | Robert Fitzgerald Collis - 1856 - 362 pages
...Virgil in JEnied, 4, b. : — " Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows Swift from the first ; and every moment brings New vigour to her flights,...pinions to her wings. Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size, Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies."* Yes, with all the assumption, at first of great... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...Fame the great ill, from siasll heginnings grows— Swift from the first ; and ev'ry moment hrings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wings Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size ; Her feet on eurth, her forehead in the skies. Enrag'd against the gods, revengeful Earth Produc'd... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...through Libyan cities goes — Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows Swift from the first, and every moment brings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wingsSoon grows the pigmy to gigantic size, Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies." In a poem... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 594 pages
...cities goes. Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows — Swift from the first ; and ev'ry moment brings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wings. Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size ; Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies. Enraged against the gods, revengeful Earth Produced... | |
 | Virgil - 1877 - 528 pages
...through Libyan cities goes. Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows — Swift from the first ; and every moment brings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wings. 255 Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size ; Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies. Enraged against... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 pages
...through Libyan cities goes, Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows ; Swift from the first, and every moment brings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wings.'' N lb. Epicurus, a contemporary of Aristotle, taught that happiness was the sole object to be sought... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...It occurs three times in Lyly's Euphuw.) 1080. Viresque acquirit eundo. — Virg. JEn. iv. 175. (' And every moment brings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wings.1 Drydeu.) There follow excellent fables ; as that she gathereth strength in going. (Ess. Of... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...Magoon. FAME — Description of. Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grown, Swift from the first, and every moment brings New vigour to her flights,...pinions to her wings. Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size, Her teet on earth, her furehead in the skies. Enrug'd against the gods, revengeful earth Produc'd... | |
 | Virgil - Latin poetry - 1886 - 336 pages
...through Libyan cities goes ; Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows ; Swift from the first, and every moment brings New vigour to her flights,...pinions to her wings. Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic sire, Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies ; Knraged against the gods, revengeful earth Produced... | |
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The loud report through Libyan cities goes. Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows — Swift from the first ; and every moment brings New vigour to her flights, new pinions to her wings. 
