Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book X-XV. The EpistlesA. J. Valpy, 1833 |
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... fight : For me , if not thyself , vouchsafe to fear ; Let not thy thirst of glory cost me dear . Boars know not how to spare a blooming age ; No sparkling eyes can soothe the lion's rage : Not all thy charms a savage breast can move ...
... fight : For me , if not thyself , vouchsafe to fear ; Let not thy thirst of glory cost me dear . Boars know not how to spare a blooming age ; No sparkling eyes can soothe the lion's rage : Not all thy charms a savage breast can move ...
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... fight , Make way for others , and a host alone Still presses on , and urging gains the town ; So , while the invading billows come abreast , The hero tenth advanced before the rest , Sweeps all before him with impetuous sway , And from ...
... fight , Make way for others , and a host alone Still presses on , and urging gains the town ; So , while the invading billows come abreast , The hero tenth advanced before the rest , Sweeps all before him with impetuous sway , And from ...
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... fight . By Hector's fatal hand Protesilaus falls , and bites the strand ; Which with expense of blood the Grecians won , And proved the strength unknown of Priam's son : And to their cost the Trojan leaders felt The Grecian heroes , and ...
... fight . By Hector's fatal hand Protesilaus falls , and bites the strand ; Which with expense of blood the Grecians won , And proved the strength unknown of Priam's son : And to their cost the Trojan leaders felt The Grecian heroes , and ...
Sida 65
... fight he would advance , He stood considering , and survey'd his lance ; Doubts if he wielded not a wooden spear Without a point : he look'd ; the point was there . 145 This is my hand , and this my lance , ' he said , By which so many ...
... fight he would advance , He stood considering , and survey'd his lance ; Doubts if he wielded not a wooden spear Without a point : he look'd ; the point was there . 145 This is my hand , and this my lance , ' he said , By which so many ...
Sida 66
... fight on foot renews the war : Raging with high disdain , repeats his blows : Nor shield nor armor can their force oppose : Huge cantlets of his buckler strew the ground , And no defence in his bored arms is found : But on his flesh no ...
... fight on foot renews the war : Raging with high disdain , repeats his blows : Nor shield nor armor can their force oppose : Huge cantlets of his buckler strew the ground , And no defence in his bored arms is found : But on his flesh no ...
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Achilles Acontius Æneas Ajax arms bear behold betray'd birds bless'd blood bore breast Briseis Cæneus call'd centaur Ceyx charms cried crime Cycnus CYPARISSUS dart death Diomed dreadful earth Ev'n eyes face fair fame fatal fate father fear field fierce fight fill'd fire fix'd flame fled flew flies flood goddess gods grace Grecian grief hair hand haste heart heaven Hector Hecuba hero Hippomenes honor join'd Jove king Latian Lemnos light limbs live Macareus maid Menelaus mighty mind Mopsus mourn night nymph o'er once OVID pass'd Peleus Philoctetes Phoebus Pirithous plain prayers prey Priam Protesilaus purple queen race rage rise sacred sails Sappho Scylla seas seem'd shade shore sight sire skies slain soft soul stood streams sword tears thee Theseus thine thou Thracian trembling Trojan Troy turn'd Twas Ulysses Venus Vertumnus virgin vows waves wife winds wound wretch youth
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Sida 154 - But suffer inmate souls secure to dwell, Lest from their seats your parents you expel ; With rabid hunger feed upon your kind, Or from a beast dislodge a brother's mind.
Sida 86 - Forc'd him t' exert the king for common good, And pay our ransom with his daughter's blood. Never was cause more difficult to plead, Than where the judge against himself decreed: Yet this I won by dint of argument ; The wrongs his injur'd brother underwent, And his own office, sham'd him to consent.
Sida 75 - Dost thou not blush, to spend thy shafts in vain On a degenerate and ignoble train ? If fame, or better vengeance, be thy care, There aim : and, with one arrow, end the war.
Sida 167 - To inclose his body, and his soul expel. Ill customs by degrees to habits rise, 111 habits soon become exalted vice : What more advance can mortals make in sin, So near perfection, who with blood begin ? Deaf to the calf that lies beneath the knife, Looks up, and from her butcher begs her life...
Sida 155 - And as the fountain still supplies her store, The wave behind impels the wave before; Thus in successive course the minutes run, And urge their predecessor minutes on...
Sida 168 - Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have : But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Sida 78 - And he who shunn'd all honors gain the best ; And let me stand excluded from my right, Robb'd of my kinsman's arms, who first appear'd in fight. Better for us, at home...
Sida 152 - And plough'd with pains, thy else ungrateful field ? From his yet reeking neck to draw the yoke, That neck, with which the surly clods he broke ; And to the hatchet yield thy husbandman, , Who finish'd Autumn, and the Spring began J Nor this alone ! but Heav'n itself to bribe, We to the gods our impious acts ascribe : First recompense with death their creatures...
Sida 86 - There in the midst of arms, I plead our cause, Urge the foul rape, and violated laws ; Accuse the foes, as authors of the strife, Reproach the ravisher, demand the wife. Priam, Antenor, and the wiser few...
Sida 88 - Were promis'd to the spy for his nocturnal deeds : And let dull Ajax bear away my right, When all his days outbalance this one night. Nor fought I darkling still : the sun beheld With...