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... gods , and heroes , as in other days . The shift of popular interest , by way of Euripides , from Die Leiden des alten Prometheus to Die Leiden des jungen Werthers , with the re- sulting change of tone , was as characteristic of the ...
... gods , and heroes , as in other days . The shift of popular interest , by way of Euripides , from Die Leiden des alten Prometheus to Die Leiden des jungen Werthers , with the re- sulting change of tone , was as characteristic of the ...
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... gods themselves sometimes serve notice on him to that effect . But while the prevailing mood of the elegy is amatory and the lighter aspects of contemporary life are much in evidence , the poet may , and occasionally does , resort to ...
... gods themselves sometimes serve notice on him to that effect . But while the prevailing mood of the elegy is amatory and the lighter aspects of contemporary life are much in evidence , the poet may , and occasionally does , resort to ...
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... gods hate pride . Love , like the measles , is an afflic- tion of youth . Let us therefore expose ourselves to it betimes , lest we live to illustrate the proverb of ' no fool like an old fool . ' In the third elegy , mainly concerned ...
... gods hate pride . Love , like the measles , is an afflic- tion of youth . Let us therefore expose ourselves to it betimes , lest we live to illustrate the proverb of ' no fool like an old fool . ' In the third elegy , mainly concerned ...
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... god of healing . Cerinthus is vitally interested in the welfare of his beloved , and at first thought we should expect him to speak in his own person here , as Sulpicia has done in the previous elegy . Our poet however is more artistic ...
... god of healing . Cerinthus is vitally interested in the welfare of his beloved , and at first thought we should expect him to speak in his own person here , as Sulpicia has done in the previous elegy . Our poet however is more artistic ...
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... gods . Nay , I care not for the broad acres of my sires . A small crop is enough , it is enough to rest in my own bed . How pleasant then with one's beloved to hear the cruel winds outside , to drop away unconcerned to slumber , lulled ...
... gods . Nay , I care not for the broad acres of my sires . A small crop is enough , it is enough to rest in my own bed . How pleasant then with one's beloved to hear the cruel winds outside , to drop away unconcerned to slumber , lulled ...
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Page 405 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 382 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 490 - UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES WHENAS in silks my Julia goes Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; O how that glittering taketh me!
Page 383 - Cocyto eructat harenam. portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat terribili squalore Charon : cui plurima mento canities inculta iacet ; stant lumina flamma ; 300 sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus. ipse ratem conto subigit velisque ministrat, et ferruginea subvectat corpora cumba, iam senior ; sed cruda deo viridisque senectus.
Page 409 - Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove, That glorious fire it kindled in his hart...
Page 302 - ... Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! Make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Page 198 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 113 - Mors atra, precor: non hic mihi mater quae legat in maestos ossa perusta sinus, non soror, Assyrios cineri quae dedat odores et fleat effusis ante sepulcra comis.
Page 139 - Fabula nunc ille est : sed cui sua cura puella est, Fabula sit mavult quam sine amore deus. At tu, quisquis is es, cui tristi fronte Cupido Imperat ut nostra sint tua castra domo, ***** Ferrea non Venerem, sed praedam, saecula laudant : 35 Praeda tamen multis est operata malis.
Page 490 - Not, Celia, that I juster am Or better than the rest ; For I would change each hour, like them, Were not my heart at rest. But I am tied to very thee By every thought I have ; Thy face I only care to see, Thy heart I only crave. All that in woman is adored In thy dear self I find — For the whole sex can but afford The handsome and the kind.