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...to have as little sense as metie, are most probably the interpolation of the transcriber. ODE XXI. OBSERVE, when mother earth is dry, She drinks the...droppings of the sky ; And then the dewy cordial gives; To ev'ry thirsty plant that lives. , The The commentators who have endeavoured to throw the chains of...

...to have as little seuse as metre, are most probably the interpolation of the transcriber. ODE XXI. OBSERVE when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky ; And then the dewy cordial gives To ev'ry thirsty plant that lives. The commentators who have endeavoured to throw the chaius of precision...

...sic imbrifer arcus Sic tellus pluvias sole perusta bibit. Sic bibit assidue fontes ct flumina Pontus. And then the dewy cordial gives To every thirsty plant...rosy sun appears, He drinks the ocean's misty tears. Sic semper sitiens Sol marls haurit aquas. Ne te igitur jactes plus me, Silene, bibisse; Etmihi da...

...captive still would stay. " If this," he cries, " a bondage be, " Who could wish for liberty ?" ODE XXI * OBSERVE when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky ; Kou faQill WH(a%(tts Koti *UTtS Zfaf tua in litThese lines, which appear to me to have as little...

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...would stay. M If till«,* he cri^, « a bondage be, Who could wish for liberty ?» ODK XXI.1 OBSIITI when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky; Hit metier in»», mrita mtmmy л lay, Та ramtom kcr t*tovtd ¿о«, tte. } Vena« that atfodaima...