| Bombay city, univ - 1873 - 614 页
...chiefs, and dusky loves. 5. Explain the allusions contained in the following pas- IT sayes : — (a.) That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered. (J.) He, who to be deemed A God, leaped fondly into jEtna flames. (c.) Here pilgrims... | |
| John Milton - 1873 - 678 页
...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 270 Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet... | |
| 1874 - 870 页
...Paradise Lost " to be reckoned in their number ? Certainly, when he proclaims the superiority of Eden to that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, — he reminds us strongly of Dante's address to Matilda, who, as she bends to pluck... | |
| Publius Ovidius Naso - 1874 - 146 页
...neighbouring hillside, trickled over the figure. Cp. Hamlet's ' like Niobe, all tears.' IX. PKOSERPINE. '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.' MILTON, PARADISE LOST,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1876 - 134 页
...interea Diti via;" and for Venus's part, "Jupiter hanc lenit, factumque excusat amore." Cp. also — "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 her through the world." — Paradise Lost,... | |
| William Agnew Paton - 1897 - 522 页
...many tints." So we turned back from the very border of the sacred precinct which Milton describes as : "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." XXIX THE PLAIN OF... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 492 页
...stalactites. 123 4S. Enna: a city in the centre of Sicily; cf. Paradise Lost, IV, 11. 268-271 : Not that fair field Of Enna. where Proserpine gathering flowers, " Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered. 123 43. Himera was the name of a river in the neighborhood of Enna; in this passage... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 492 页
...of stalactites. 123 42. Enna: a city in the centre of Sicily; cf. Paradise Lost, IV, 11.268-271: Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered. 123 49-53. The lovely creations of art shall visit us, less splendid at first, but... | |
| George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 408 页
...Proserpine was out a-Maying when she met with that fatal adventure to which Milton alludes when he mentions That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered ' Since I am got into quotations, I shall conclude this head with Virgil's advice... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 490 页
...stalactites. 123 42. Enna : a city in the centre of Sicily ; cf. Paradise Lost, IV, 11. 268-271 : Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered. 123 49-53. The lovely creations of art shall visit us, less splendid at first, but... | |
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