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Page 54
... usual lover . He is forever complaining of his bondage , and of her greed , heartlessness , and infidelity — all stock themes , but , like the char- acters themselves , too common in daily life to warrant the assump- tion that the ...
... usual lover . He is forever complaining of his bondage , and of her greed , heartlessness , and infidelity — all stock themes , but , like the char- acters themselves , too common in daily life to warrant the assump- tion that the ...
Page 56
... amongst the rest , good health ( valetudo ) . - This is not flattery . It is encouragement , and as such the natural prelude to the bit of advice and warning which as usual the poet intends to convey . Hence the lines that 56 TIBVLLVS.
... amongst the rest , good health ( valetudo ) . - This is not flattery . It is encouragement , and as such the natural prelude to the bit of advice and warning which as usual the poet intends to convey . Hence the lines that 56 TIBVLLVS.
Page 81
... usual plan of variety and importance , not upon chrono- logical sequence . 4 , 7 , by which the series is introduced , really marks the culmination of the affair . Chronologically , or at least psychologically , the order is 4 , 12 ; 4 ...
... usual plan of variety and importance , not upon chrono- logical sequence . 4 , 7 , by which the series is introduced , really marks the culmination of the affair . Chronologically , or at least psychologically , the order is 4 , 12 ; 4 ...
Page 98
... usual , was fol- lowing the Greeks , but there is already a decided tendency to the dissyllable . Note too that the tendency is more marked in his elegy than in his epigram . This difference , though less marked in later times , was one ...
... usual , was fol- lowing the Greeks , but there is already a decided tendency to the dissyllable . Note too that the tendency is more marked in his elegy than in his epigram . This difference , though less marked in later times , was one ...
Page 102
... usual to divide subject and predicate in some artistic way between the two verses . For example we should avoid ending the grammatical con- struction with the hexameter . In this way the two verses are at once united and distinguished ...
... usual to divide subject and predicate in some artistic way between the two verses . For example we should avoid ending the grammatical con- struction with the hexameter . In this way the two verses are at once united and distinguished ...
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Alexandrian Amat Amor anaphora Anth antique atque caesura Carm Cassius Dio Catull Catullus Cerinthus characteristic charm Cicero cura dative Delia deos deus distich e.g. Ovid echo elegiac elegy Ennius Epig epigram Epist Epod etiam Eurip Fasti favourite frag Greek haec hence Hesiod hexameter Horace illa imitation Introd ipse Latin literary Livy lover Lucan Lucret Lukian manu Marathus Messalla mihi modo Nemesis nocte nunc Odyss Ovid passage pede pentameter Petron Plautus Pliny plural Plutarch poem poet poet's poetry Priap Propert Propertius prose puella quae quam quid quis quod quoque quoted reference Roman saepe says semper Seneca Servius on Verg Sibyl Stat suggested Sulpicia sunt tamen Theb theme Theokrit tibi Tibullian Tibullus Tibullus's Trist tunc Varro venit Venus verb verba Vergil verse word δὲ ἐν καὶ τὸ
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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.