...meant, and what he never knew, the oaks plainly, from his silence, becoming oracular after his time, Whose groves the Selli, race austere, surround. Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground. So far Homer speaks, but it is only Mr. Pope that subjoins thus : Who hear from rustling oaks thy dark...

...Pelasgie, Dodonxan Jove ! 285 Who 'midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on hleak Dodona's vocal hill (Whose groves, the Selli, race...ground; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees; 399 And catch the fates, low-whisper'd in the breeae): Hear, as of old ! Thou gav'st, at Thetis' prayer,...

...Pelasgic, Dodonaean Jove ! 285 Who 'midst surrounding frosts, and vapors chill, Presid'st on hleak Dodona's vocal hill: (Whose groves, the Selli, race austere! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their slumhers on the ground; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees ; 2t)0 And catch the fates,...

...great Pelasgie, Dodonsean Jove ! Who, 'midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill ; (Whose groves, the Selli, race austere ! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their si umbers on the ground j Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees ; And catch the fates, low-whisperM...

...rest secure from toils. These truths L. 1242. Electryon, the father of Alcmcnn, was king of Tiryns. L. 1258. Homer speaks of these priests in an address...groves the Selli, race austere ! surround, Their feet unwasu'd, their slumbers on the ground; Who hear from rustling oaks thy dark decrees, And catch the...

...great Pelasgic, Dodoncan Jove ! Who midst surrounding frosts and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill ; Whose groves, the Selli, race...Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground. pore. Where some, as we are there informed by Eustathius, read */tfi •?> <? E*AO«, making those...

...great Pelasgic, Dodonaean Jove ! Who midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presidest on bleak Dodona's vocal hill : (Whose groves the Selli, race austere ! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their si umbers on the ground ; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees; And catch the fates, low-whisper'd...

...great Pelasgic, Dodontean Jove ! Who 'midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presides! on bleak praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured, my...Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (grea j 290 And catch the fates, low-whisper'd in the breeze :) Hear, as of old! Thou gnvest, at Thetis'...

...retired from the world, and fancied that in becoming less like men, they became more like God: — " Whose groves the Selli, race austere, surround, "Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground."— POPE. The order of Mendicants, or lazy begging priests, was well known to the ancient heathens. They...

...retired from the world, and fancied that in becoming less like men, they became more like God : — " Whose groves the Selli, race austere, surround, "...Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground." — POPE. The order of Mendicants, or lazy begging priests, was well known to the ancient heathens....