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... imagination , that the mind loves to indulge in it ; but the vision dissolves before historical truth ; and Chama- leon and Hermesianax , who are the source of the the supposition , are considered as having merely indulged in REMARKS ON ...
... imagination , that the mind loves to indulge in it ; but the vision dissolves before historical truth ; and Chama- leon and Hermesianax , who are the source of the the supposition , are considered as having merely indulged in REMARKS ON ...
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... imagination . Vossius rejects the idea entirely : as also Olaus Borrichius , & c . & c . † An Italian poet , in some verses on Belleau's translation of Anacreon , pretends to imagine that our bard did not feel as he wrote . Lyæum ...
... imagination . Vossius rejects the idea entirely : as also Olaus Borrichius , & c . & c . † An Italian poet , in some verses on Belleau's translation of Anacreon , pretends to imagine that our bard did not feel as he wrote . Lyæum ...
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... imagination to hurry him so often into vulgar licen tiousness . That still as death approaches nearer , The joys of life are sweeter , dearer ; ] Pontanus has a very de- licate thought upon the subject of old age : Quid rides , Matrona ...
... imagination to hurry him so often into vulgar licen tiousness . That still as death approaches nearer , The joys of life are sweeter , dearer ; ] Pontanus has a very de- licate thought upon the subject of old age : Quid rides , Matrona ...
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... imagination to complete the picture , has been seldom adopted in the imitations of this beautiful poem . Ronsard is exceptionably minute ; and Politianus , in his charming portrait of a girl , full of rich and exquisite diction , has ...
... imagination to complete the picture , has been seldom adopted in the imitations of this beautiful poem . Ronsard is exceptionably minute ; and Politianus , in his charming portrait of a girl , full of rich and exquisite diction , has ...
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... imagination of the Greeks to deify Persuasion , and give her the lips for her throne . We are here reminded of a very interesting fragment of Anacreon , preserved by the scholiast upon Pindar , and supposed to belong to a poem ...
... imagination of the Greeks to deify Persuasion , and give her the lips for her throne . We are here reminded of a very interesting fragment of Anacreon , preserved by the scholiast upon Pindar , and supposed to belong to a poem ...
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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.