 Dens a principio usque ad fnem, the summary law of nature, we know not whether man's inquiry can attain unto it. But these three be the true stages of knowledge, and are to them that are depraved no better than the giants' hills : Ter sunt conati imponere...  Bacon: The Advancement of Learning - Page 91by Francis Bacon - 1876 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Virgil - 1795 - 332 pages
...terra nefando Coenmque lapetumque creat, saevumque Typhoëa, Et coniuratos caelum rescindere fratres. Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum: Ter Pater exstructos disiecit fulmine montes. Septima post decimam felix, et ponere vitem, Et prensos... | |
 | Virgil - 1800 - 250 pages
...Terra nefando Cceumque lapetumque creat, sxvumque Typhoea, Et conjuratos coelum rescindere fratres : Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum ; Ter pater exstructos disjecit fulmine montes, Septima post decimam felix et ponere vitem, Et prensos... | |
 | Etienne François de Lantier - 1803 - 492 pages
...présentent trois aiguilles ou pointes. C'est ici que je croyois voir réaliser la fable des géans. Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam, Scilicet , atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum. Mais ce Mont Blanc , dont la tête s'enfonce dans les cieux , fixoit tous nos regards : quel tableau... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1808 - 510 pages
...in the mighty attempt in- Qf ^ gu_ stead of merely designing or aiming- at it— blime and Pathetic. Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum: Tei- Pater extructos disjecit fulmine monies — and Clandian has quite spoiled it by making his giants... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1811 - 364 pages
...Terra nefaudo Cœumque lapetumque creat, saevumque Typhœa, Et conjurates cœlum rescindere fratres : Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet , atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum ; Ter pater exstructos disjecit fulmine montes. Septima post decimam felix et ponere vitem, Et prensos... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1815 - 604 pages
...Olympus, now covered, as already described, with the snows of winter. Almost opposite the town of •)• Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum. / Virg. Georg. i. 281. Horace (Lib. iii. Od. 4.) speaks of the " opaco Olympo;" and, alluding to the... | |
 | Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818 - 376 pages
...places Olympus at the bottom, Ossa on Olympus, and Pelion on Ossa ; Virgil uses the contrary order — Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum : which makes a pyramid resting on its point, Pelion being the least, and Olympus the greatest of these... | |
 | Virgil - 1818 - 406 pages
...nefando Cœumque lapetumque créât, sœvumque Typho'ea, Et conjurâtes cœlum rescindere fratres. 280 Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum : Ter Pater exstructos disjecit fulmine montes. Séptima post decimam felix, et poneré vitein, Et... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...point is metaphysic. As for the vertical point, Opus, quod operatur Deus a principio usque ad Jinem, the summary law of nature, we know not whether man's...Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque OSSCE frondosum involvereOlympum. But to those which refer all things to the glory of God, they are... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1819 - 520 pages
...thunderbolt. Cœumque lapetumque créât, ssevumque Typhoëa, Et conjurâtes caelum rescindere fratres. 280 Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum: Ter pater extractos disjecit fulmine montes. Пя/ля» l НеатЧ on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood;... | |
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