The Rape of Proserpine: With Other Poems, from Claudian; Translated Into English Verse. With a Prefatory Discourse, and Occasional Notes |
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... has excited in an eminent degree the attention and praise of a num- erous and learned class of readers , and has undergone a variety of translations into the Italian and French langua- ges , while the remaining works of the poet have viii.
... has excited in an eminent degree the attention and praise of a num- erous and learned class of readers , and has undergone a variety of translations into the Italian and French langua- ges , while the remaining works of the poet have viii.
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... Italian fields once lay that shore , 175 Till the rude floods their furious force essay'd , And Nereus rode between the sever'd hills . Yet small the space that parts the kindred plains , For Nature farther violence opposed , And rear'd ...
... Italian fields once lay that shore , 175 Till the rude floods their furious force essay'd , And Nereus rode between the sever'd hills . Yet small the space that parts the kindred plains , For Nature farther violence opposed , And rear'd ...
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... the earth ; her mournful plaints Resound on ev'ry side . She tracks the sea With gleaming fires , that dance upon the floods , And give to Italy , and Lybia's sands , 590 595 600 Far distant splendor ; while th ' Etruscan shores Grow 90.
... the earth ; her mournful plaints Resound on ev'ry side . She tracks the sea With gleaming fires , that dance upon the floods , And give to Italy , and Lybia's sands , 590 595 600 Far distant splendor ; while th ' Etruscan shores Grow 90.
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... Italy secure in peace , his camp Removing , Stilicho advances swift To where the orient sun first lights the world ; Strength'ning his warlike force , with chosen troops From Gallia and the East . So vast an host , 120 125 So various ...
... Italy secure in peace , his camp Removing , Stilicho advances swift To where the orient sun first lights the world ; Strength'ning his warlike force , with chosen troops From Gallia and the East . So vast an host , 120 125 So various ...
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... Italy he sways , " Rules over Lybia , and dictates laws " To Gallia , and to Spain : all that the sun " Beholds , all nature's comprehensive reign , " To his ambition , yield too poor a space . " The treasures which thy royal father ...
... Italy he sways , " Rules over Lybia , and dictates laws " To Gallia , and to Spain : all that the sun " Beholds , all nature's comprehensive reign , " To his ambition , yield too poor a space . " The treasures which thy royal father ...
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Anapus Apollo appear'd Arcadius arms beauteous behold blooming bow'r breast breath bright burning calm caves Ceres Claud Claudian Cocytus coursers Cybele dark death deep dire distant dreadful E'en earth Eleusis Enceladus Enna etherial ev'ry eyes fame fate fear fields fierce fiery fire flames floods flow'rs fury gales Geryon gloom glorious glowing goddess gods golden grace grief grove hand haste hath heav'n Honorius horrid household deities hues immortal isle Jove light limbs lofty maid Meanwhile mournful night nuptial nymphs o'er Ovid pale peace plains poet poison'd pow'r rage RAPE OF PROSERPINE realms Rejoicing Resound rich robes rocks Rufinus sacred seek shades shores sighs sire skies smiles spear splendor stars steeds stern Stilicho stream sweet swift sword Tanaïs tears thee Thessaly thine thou Thrace toil tow'rs trembling Typhoeus vale vex'd virgin train walls waves wild wings woods yield
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Page ix - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 207 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state. she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 208 - a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice : Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear ; at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus affrighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 208 - And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as 'a...
Page x - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered — which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world — nor that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this Paradise Of Eden strive...
Page 207 - O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees ; O'er ladies lips, who straight on kisses dream. Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a suit. And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, Tickling...
Page 200 - ... night, and spread universal consternation among a people ignorant of his design but not ignorant of his character. The count of the fifteen provinces of the East was dragged, like the vilest malefactor, before the arbitrary tribunal of Rufinus. Notwithstanding the clearest evidence of his integrity, which was not impeached even by the voice of an accuser, Lucian was condemned, almost without a trial, to suffer a cruel and ignominious punishment. The ministers of the tyrant, by the...
Page 201 - ... had saved the empire from the invasion of the Ostrogoths; but he indignantly supported the pre-eminence of a rival,* whose character and profession he despised; and, in the midst of a public council, the impatient soldier was provoked to chastise with a blow the indecent pride of the favorite. This act of violence was represented to the Emperor as an insult, which it was incumbent on his dignity to resent. The disgrace and exile of Promotus were signified by a peremptory order, to repair, without...
Page 39 - O'er beds of thyme, cluster with pleasing hum, And visit ev'ry flow'r in search of sweets. They spoil the treasures of the field ; some chuse Pale lilies to entwine with violet buds; Some seek the rich Amaracus; some walk With roses crown'd; some deck'd with woodbine wreaths; They spare not thee, sad Hyacinth, nor thee, Pallid Narcissus, pride of all the plain ; Once graceful youths : the fatal disk to one Brought...
Page 39 - Heralds th1 approach of day's more fiery orb, Come, sister-nymphs !" She spoke, and reach'd her hand, And pluck'd her fav'rite grief-inwoven flow'r. Meanwhile, dispersed around, the roving maids Throng in each various path, as when a swarm Of bees, led from their waxen citadel, Built in some hollow oak, following their queen O'er beds of thyme, cluster with pleasing hum, And visit ev'ry flow'r in search of sweets.