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... , are not more deserving of such illustrious patronage . Believe me , SIR , With every sentiment of respect , Your Royal Highness's Very grateful and devoted Servant , THOMAS MOORE . a 3 ADVERTISEMENT . Ir may be necessary to mention , ...
... , are not more deserving of such illustrious patronage . Believe me , SIR , With every sentiment of respect , Your Royal Highness's Very grateful and devoted Servant , THOMAS MOORE . a 3 ADVERTISEMENT . Ir may be necessary to mention , ...
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... believe that they were cotemporary : any thought of an interchange between hearts so congenial in warmth of passion and delicacy of genius , gives such play to the imagination , that the mind loves to indulge in it ; but the vision ...
... believe that they were cotemporary : any thought of an interchange between hearts so congenial in warmth of passion and delicacy of genius , gives such play to the imagination , that the mind loves to indulge in it ; but the vision ...
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... believe have ever been published . + Thus too Albertus , a Danish poet : Fidii tui minister Gaudebo semper esse Gaudebo semper illi Litare thure mulso ; Gaudebo semper illum Laudare pumilillis Anacreonticillis . See the Danish Poets ...
... believe have ever been published . + Thus too Albertus , a Danish poet : Fidii tui minister Gaudebo semper esse Gaudebo semper illi Litare thure mulso ; Gaudebo semper illum Laudare pumilillis Anacreonticillis . See the Danish Poets ...
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... believe they are the most important . * This manuscript , which Spaletti thinks as old as the tenth century , was brought from the Palatine into the Vatican library ; it is a kind of anthology of Greek epigrams ; and in the 676th page ...
... believe they are the most important . * This manuscript , which Spaletti thinks as old as the tenth century , was brought from the Palatine into the Vatican library ; it is a kind of anthology of Greek epigrams ; and in the 676th page ...
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... want of youth , And with a smile my brow behold ? Lady dear ! believe this truth , That he who loves cannot be old . ODE I ODE VIII . CARE not for the idle state 56 ODES OF ANACREON . Why do you scorn my want of youth, ...
... want of youth , And with a smile my brow behold ? Lady dear ! believe this truth , That he who loves cannot be old . ODE I ODE VIII . CARE not for the idle state 56 ODES OF ANACREON . Why do you scorn my want of youth, ...
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Achilles Tatius Amor Anacreon and Sappho ancients Angerianus Anthologia Apollo Apuleius Aulus Gellius Bacchus bard Barnes Bathyllus beauty blisses blushing bosom bowl breast breath brow Catullus charms Colomesius Cupid dart Degen Diogenes Laertius edition elegant epigram epithet eyes fancy feel fire flame flew flowers Gail girl glowing grace grove hæc hair heart Henry Stephen idea imitated this ode Ionia Isaac Vossius kiss Latin Longepierre has quoted lyre Madame Dacier maid Maximus Tyrius mistress Monsieur Muses ne'er night nymphs o'er ODE ODE ODES OF ANACREON Olaus Borrichius Paint Plato poem poet poet's Polycrates Quæ quaff Ronsard rose rosy says Scaliger sigh sleep smile song soul sweet Teian tell thee thine thou thought translation trembled twine Vatican Venus verse Vossius wanton warm wild wine wing δε Ει εις εν Ερωτα και μεν μη μοι ποτ προς τε ὡς
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Page 156 - Whatever decks the velvet field, Whate'er the circling seasons yield, Whatever buds, whatever blows, For thee it buds, for thee it grows. Nor yet art thou the peasant's fear, To him thy friendly notes are dear; For thou art mild as matin dew, And still, when summer's flowery hue Begins to paint the bloomy plain, We hear thy sweet prophetic strain; Thy sweet prophetic strain we hear, And bless the notes and thee revere! The Muses love thy shrilly tone ; Apollo calls thee all his own; 'Twas he who...
Page 161 - O mother ! — I am wounded through I die with pain— in sooth I do ! Stung by some little angry thing, Some serpent on a tiny wing — A bee it was — for once, I know, I heard a rustic call it so.
Page 112 - The vapours, which at evening weep, Are beverage to the swelling deep ; And when the rosy sun appears, He drinks the ocean's misty tears. The moon too quaffs her paly stream Of lustre from the solar beam. Then, hence with all your sober thinking ! Since Nature's holy law is drinking ; I'll make the laws of nature mine, And pledge the universe in wine ! ODE XXII.
Page 38 - I hung it o'er my thoughtless brow , And ah ! I feel its magic now ! I feel that even his garland's touch Can make the bosom love too much ! ODE II.
Page 111 - The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft.
Page 90 - Sport and flutter on its snow. Now let a floating lucid veil Shadow her limbs, but not conceal ; A charm may peep, a hue may beam, And leave the rest to Fancy's dream.
Page 86 - Where her tresses' curly flow Darkles o'er the brow of snow, Let her forehead beam to light, Burnish'd as the ivory bright. Let her eyebrows sweetly rise In jetty arches o'er her eyes, Gently in a crescent gliding, Just commingling, just dividing. But hast thou any sparkles warm The lightning of her eyes to form t Let them effuse the azure ray With which Minerva's glances play, And give them all that liquid fire That Venus
Page 115 - And take me panting to thy breast ! I wish I might a rose-bud grow, And thou wouldst cull me from the bower, And place me on that breast of snow...
Page 20 - He steals us so insensibly along with him, that we sympathize even in his excesses. In his amatory odes there is a delicacy of compliment not to be found in any other ancient poet. Love at that period was rather an unrefined emotion ; and the intercourse of the sexes was ani mated more by passion than sentiment.
Page 78 - Led by what chart, transports the timid dove The wreaths of conquest, or the vows of love ? Say, thro' the clouds what compass points her flight ? Monarchs have gazed, and nations blessed the sight.