Scriptores Erotici Græci: The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius; Comprising The Ethiopics, Or Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea ...Bell, 1889 - 511 pages |
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... Notes , BY THE REV . ROWLAND SMITH , M.A. , FORMERLY OF ST . JOHN'S COLLEGE , OXFORD . wwwww LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 1889 . 6984 HARVARD COLLECE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBRARY OF HERBERT WEIR.
... Notes , BY THE REV . ROWLAND SMITH , M.A. , FORMERLY OF ST . JOHN'S COLLEGE , OXFORD . wwwww LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 1889 . 6984 HARVARD COLLECE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBRARY OF HERBERT WEIR.
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... note , are Achilles Tatius , who is allowed to come next to him in merit ; Longus , who has given the first example of the “ Pastoral Romance ; " and Xenophon , of Ephesus . Having alluded to the various writers of fictitious nar ...
... note , are Achilles Tatius , who is allowed to come next to him in merit ; Longus , who has given the first example of the “ Pastoral Romance ; " and Xenophon , of Ephesus . Having alluded to the various writers of fictitious nar ...
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... notes the absurd and aukward manner in which the author , as if to show his various acquirements , drags in without the slightest neces- sity , some of those minute descriptions , viz . , those of the necklace , and of different ...
... notes the absurd and aukward manner in which the author , as if to show his various acquirements , drags in without the slightest neces- sity , some of those minute descriptions , viz . , those of the necklace , and of different ...
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... notes heard so melodious as those by which Leucippe was vindicated . Thersander was , of course , nonsuited , and re- tired , loaded with infamy . Leucippe then related to her father and Clitopho that it was a woman dressed in her ...
... notes heard so melodious as those by which Leucippe was vindicated . Thersander was , of course , nonsuited , and re- tired , loaded with infamy . Leucippe then related to her father and Clitopho that it was a woman dressed in her ...
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... how Thisbe private parties among the Greeks , see a Note at p . 114 of Mitchell's Translation of Aristophanes ; and another on line 481 of his edition of The Frogs . came into this cavern , and how she has been 36 THE ADVENTURES OF.
... how Thisbe private parties among the Greeks , see a Note at p . 114 of Mitchell's Translation of Aristophanes ; and another on line 481 of his edition of The Frogs . came into this cavern , and how she has been 36 THE ADVENTURES OF.
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Achæmenes Achilles Tatius appeared arms arrived Arsace Bagoas beauty began body buccaneers Calasiris called Callisthenes Chariclea Charicles Charmides Clinias Clitopho Cnemon concealed Cybele Daphnis and Chloe daughter death deity delight desire Dryas Edition Egyptian embraced endeavoured enemy escape Ethiopian exclaimed eyes father favour fear flocks flowers fortune give goats gods Greek grief hand hear heard Heliodorus honour Hydaspes inquired king kiss Lamon Leucippe Leucippe's lover maiden manner marriage Melitta Menelaus mind mistress Myrtale Nausicles night Nile Notes Nymphs Oroondates passion Persians Persina pipe pirates Portrait present preserved priest prisoners promised received replied returned sacred sacrifice sail Satyrus seized shew sight slave sleep soon Sosthenes Sostratus soul stranger suffer sword Syene tears temple Theagenes Theagenes and Chariclea Thersander Thisbe thou thought Thyamis took Trachinus Trans vessel vols wine wish woman words wound young youth Zacynthus δὲ καὶ
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Page 319 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Page 459 - Subtle as sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Page 377 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 492 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.
Page 427 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Page 436 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 162 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.