De abstinentia ab esu animalium libri quatuorApud A. Et J. Honkoop, 1792 - 122 pages |
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Page 48 - Their webs divine of purple mix'd with gold. Within the cave, the clustering bees attend Their waxen works, or from the roof depend. Perpetual waters o'er the pavement glide: Two marble doors unfold on either side ; Sacred the south by which the gods descend, But mortals enter at the northern end.
Page 56 - Phœacians , whofe name implies blacknefs , <J3«íoi, are the mourners at his death , and attend him to his grave : the ship is his grave , which is afterwards turned into a rock ; which reprefents his monumental marble ; his fleep means death , through which alone man arrives at eternd felicity.
Page 56 - Eußathins') is of opinion , that the cave means the world ; it is called gloomy , but agreeable , becaufe , it was made out of darknefs , and afterwards fet in this agreeable order by the hand of the deity. It is...
Page 57 - Broke by the jutting land on either fide: In double ftreams the briny waters glide. Betwixt two rows of rocks, a fylvan fcene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot ains.
Page 56 - The bowls and urns of living rtone, are the body which are form'd out of the earth ; the bees that make their honey in the cave are the fouls of men , which perform all their operations in the body , and animate it ; the beams on which the Nymphs roul their webs , are the bones over which the admirable embroidery; of nerves, veins, and arteries...
Page 57 - Is form'd beneath with moffy feats, Те reft the Nereids, and exclude the heats: Thither they bent , and haul'd their fhip to land , (The crooked keel divides the yellow fand) Down from the crannies of the living walls The chryftal ftreams defcend in murmuring falls, No hauliers need to bind the veflels here, Nor bearded anchors, for uo ftorms they fear.
Page 57 - I fhould much rather chufe to believe that the memory of the things to which he alludes in the defcription of the cave is loft, then credit fuch a laboured and diftant allegory.
Page 57 - Homer never dream'd of thcfe matters, tho the age in which he fournil' h'd was addicted to allegory. How often do painters draw from the imagination only , merely to pleafe the eye ! and why might not Homer write after it , especially in this place where he manifeftly indulges his fancy , while he brings his Héroe to the firft dawning of happinefs?
Page 57 - ... the fountains which water the cave are the feas, rivers and lakes that water the world ; and the two gates, are the two poles ; through the northern the fouls defcend from heaven to animate the body, through the fouthern they afcend to heaven, after they are feparated from the body by death.
Page 55 - raw & ces cruches de belles pierres , ce font les corps qui font partis de terre; Les abeilles qui y font leur miel ce font ces âmes qui y font toutes leurs opérations , & qui animant ces corps , les empêchent de fe corrompre ; Cet ouvrage merveilleux que ces Nymphes font fur...