The Works of the English Poets Volume 27; With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1779 Excerpt: ...led," Hasty to Phrygian Capua were fled. Resolving here to fix the moving war, "-' 610 He calls his scatter'd legions from afar; Htre he decrees the daring foe to wait, And prove at once the great event of fate; Where Apennine's delightful shades arise, And lift Hesperia lofty to the skres. 615 Between the higher and inferior sea, The long-extended mountain takes his way; Pisa and Ancon bound his sloping fides, Wash'd by the Tyrrhene and Dalmatic tides; Rich in the treasure of his watery stores, A thousand living springs and streams he pours, And seeks the disferent seas by disferent shores. From his left fails Crustumium's rapid flood, And swift Metanrus red with Punic blood; There gentle Sapis with Ifaurns joins, (15 And Sena there the Senones confines; Rough Aufidus the meeting ocean braves, And lashes on the lazy Adria's waves; Hence vast Eridanus with matchless force, Prince of the streams, directs his regal course; 630 Proud with the spoils of fields and woods he flows, And drains Hesperia's rivers as he goes. His sacred banks, in ancient tales renown'd, First by the spreading poplar's shade were crown'd; When the fun s fiery steeds forsook their way, 635 And downward drew to earth the burning day: When every flood and ample lake was dry, The Po alone his channel could supply. Hither Hither rash Phaeton was headlong driven, And in these waters quench'd the flames of heaven. 640 Nor wealthy Nile a fuller stream contains, Though wide he spreads o'er AEgypt's flatter plains; Nor Ister rolls a larger torrent down, Sought he the sea with waters all his own; But meeting floods to him their homage pay, 45 And heave the blended river on his way. These from the left; while from the right, there come The Rutuba and Tiber dear to Rome; Theme files ..