Behold, where yon blue riv'let glides Along the laughing dale; Light reeds bedeck its verdant sides, And frolick in the gale. So shines our Prince! In bright array The Virtues round him wait; And sweetly smil'd th'auspicious day, That raised Him o'er... The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 5471793Full view - About this book
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1793 - 636 pages
...forty-eight, according to SIR ISAAC NEWTON, after the taking of fray; fo that the Chinefe poet might have been contemporary with HESIOD and HOMER, or at...LYCURGUS.' • Behold, where yon blue riv'let glides And frolic in the gale: So fhines our Prince! In bright array Along the laughing dale; Light reeds... | |
| 1793 - 524 pages
...Paraphrafe of one of them, by Sir William Jones, may be accceptable to our readers : « The PARAPHRASE. " Behold, where yon blue riv'let glides Along the laughing dale; Light reeds bedeck its verdant fides, And frolick in the gale : " So mines our Prince ! In bright array The Virtues round him wait^ : And fweetly... | |
| Books and bookselling - 460 pages
...after the taking of Troy ; fo that the Chinefe Poet might have been contemporary with Hefiod and Hcmer, or at leaft muft have written the Ode before the Iliad and Odyffey were carried into Greece by Lycurgus. The verbal tranfhition of the thirtytwo original characters-... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 468 pages
...fortyeight, according to Sir ISAAC NEWTON, after the taking of Troy, fo that the Chinefe Poet might have been contemporary with HESIOD and HOMER, or at...leaft muft have written the Ode before the Iliad and Odyffey were carried into Greece byLycuRcus. The verbal tranflation of the thirty-two original characters... | |
| William Jones - Asianists - 1993 - 468 pages
...fortyeight, according to Sir ISAAC NEWTON, after the taking of Troy, fo that the Chinefe Poet might have been contemporary with HESIOD and HOMER, or at...leaft muft have written the Ode before the Iliad and Odyffey were carried into Greece byLycuRGUs. The verbal tranflation of the thirty-two original characters... | |
| John Minford, Joseph S. M. Lau - Education - 2000 - 1246 pages
...Second Classical Book of the Chinese," 1799 iii. A Chinese Ode Paraphrased by Sir William Jones (1799) Behold, where yon blue riv'let glides Along the laughing dale; Light reeds bedeck its verdant sides, And frolick in the gale. So shines our Prince! In bright array The Virtues round him wait; And... | |
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