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... suggested , at least in some ways , the Fasti of Ovid and certain poems in the last book of Propertius.1 The Karà AETтóν of his friend Aratos reminds one of the mis- cellany by the same name attributed to the youthful Vergil , and in ...
... suggested , at least in some ways , the Fasti of Ovid and certain poems in the last book of Propertius.1 The Karà AETтóν of his friend Aratos reminds one of the mis- cellany by the same name attributed to the youthful Vergil , and in ...
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... suggested . Possibly too his elegies , to judge from the prevailing mood of poetry at the time , were characterized ... suggest that Catullus was not the only representative of this department . The characteristic work of the school ...
... suggested . Possibly too his elegies , to judge from the prevailing mood of poetry at the time , were characterized ... suggest that Catullus was not the only representative of this department . The characteristic work of the school ...
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... had already taken over the motives of comedy , each poet modifying them from personal experience and from life . The material of comedy appears in The characteristic vices of the Hellenistic elegy are suggested by 23 INTRODUCTION.
... had already taken over the motives of comedy , each poet modifying them from personal experience and from life . The material of comedy appears in The characteristic vices of the Hellenistic elegy are suggested by 23 INTRODUCTION.
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Tibullus Kirby Flower Smith. The characteristic vices of the Hellenistic elegy are suggested by what has already been said of the period itself . They were overmuch complication in structure , an excess of antiquarianism , Lucian and ...
Tibullus Kirby Flower Smith. The characteristic vices of the Hellenistic elegy are suggested by what has already been said of the period itself . They were overmuch complication in structure , an excess of antiquarianism , Lucian and ...
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... suggested by certain aspects of his second and last book and by the fact that Horace ( born 65 B.C. ) speaks to him as to a younger man . It is also implied by Ovid , Trist . 4 , 10 , 51- Vergilium vidi tantum ; nec amara Tibullo tempus ...
... suggested by certain aspects of his second and last book and by the fact that Horace ( born 65 B.C. ) speaks to him as to a younger man . It is also implied by Ovid , Trist . 4 , 10 , 51- Vergilium vidi tantum ; nec amara Tibullo tempus ...
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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 chaunt 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 522 - tis the way too thither. How happy here should I, And one dear She, live, and embracing die ! She, who is all the world, and can exclude In deserts solitude. I should have then this only fear — Lest men, when they my pleasures see, Should hither throng to live like me, And so make a city here.
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. Why then should I seek further store, And still make love anew ? When change itself can give no more, Tis easy to be true.
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 107 - ... flava Ceres, tibi sit nostro de rure corona spicea, quae templi pendeat ante fores, pomosisque ruber custos ponatur in hortis, terreat ut saeva falce Priapus aves. vos quoque, felicis quondam, nunc pauperis agri 20 custodes, fertis munera vestra, Lares.
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.