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. 1872 Excerpt: ...at will his alleys graced, And grafted thorns that blushing plums display'd, And planes that stretch'd o'er summer feasts their shade. 170 Delightful scenes! in narrow bounds confin'd, I leave your charms, to future bards resign'd. Learn w what natural instincts, gift of heav'n, To grace the bee great Jove himself has given; What time the swarms, by clanging cymbals led, 175 In Cretan caves the nursling Thunderer fed. 145 Virgil's old gardener may reasonably be supposed to have been one of the inhabitants of Corycus (a mountain and city of Cilicia), whom, after their conquest, Pompey had settled in Calabria, about Tarsntum.--Martyn. 175 Saturn intended to have devoured the infant Jupiter; to avoid which, he was concealed in Crete, among the Curetes, tha They, sole, their town, their race in common rear, Kw their fix'd households, and just laws revere; Prescient of winter, hoard the rifled spring, And summer's tribute to the treasury bring. 180 Some, by fix'd league, forsake awhile their home, And far and wide, to feed the nation, roam; Form'd of thick gum and pale Narcissus' tear, Some, in the hive, their new foundations rear; These, train'd to work, the clinging wax suspend, 185 These to the young, the nation's hope, attend, These stow pure honey, and unwearied swell With liquid nectar each o'erflowing cell. These at the gate their station'd vigils keep, Mark where the clouds collect, the tempests sweep, Unload the labourer, or, embattled, drive 191 The drone, dull sluggard, from the busy hive: A nation toils, the work unwearied glows, And, redolent of thyme, the honey flows. As when the Cyclops, for the Almighty Sire, 195 Force from the stubborn mass the bolt of fire, These gather'd winds through labouring bellows urge, Those in deep troughs the hissi...