Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book X-XV. The EpistlesA. J. Valpy, 1833 |
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... shores , Disconsolate , the bard Eurydice deplores ; Defiled with filth his robe , with tears his cheeks ; * No sustenance but grief and cares he seeks ; Of rigid Fate incessant he complains , And hell's inexorable gods arraigns . This ...
... shores , Disconsolate , the bard Eurydice deplores ; Defiled with filth his robe , with tears his cheeks ; * No sustenance but grief and cares he seeks ; Of rigid Fate incessant he complains , And hell's inexorable gods arraigns . This ...
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... shore . But here , when landed on the foreign soil , A venom'd snake , the product of the isle , Attempts the head , and sacred locks , imbrued With clotted gore and still fresh - dropping blood . Phoebus at last his kind protection ...
... shore . But here , when landed on the foreign soil , A venom'd snake , the product of the isle , Attempts the head , and sacred locks , imbrued With clotted gore and still fresh - dropping blood . Phoebus at last his kind protection ...
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... shore ; 355 365 Here Peleus seized her , slumbering while she lay , 360 And urged his suit with all that love could say . The nymph , o'erpower'd , to art for succor flies , And various shapes the eager youth surprise ; A bird she seems ...
... shore ; 355 365 Here Peleus seized her , slumbering while she lay , 360 And urged his suit with all that love could say . The nymph , o'erpower'd , to art for succor flies , And various shapes the eager youth surprise ; A bird she seems ...
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... shore my cattle drove , 496 And let them freely in the meadows rove . Some stretch'd at length , admire the watery plain , Some cropp'd the herb , some wanton swam the main . A temple stands of antique make hard by , Where no gilt domes ...
... shore my cattle drove , 496 And let them freely in the meadows rove . Some stretch'd at length , admire the watery plain , Some cropp'd the herb , some wanton swam the main . A temple stands of antique make hard by , Where no gilt domes ...
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... shore . Adjoins a lake , inclosed with willows round , Where swelling waves have overflow'd the mound , And muddy , stagnate , on the lower ground , From thence a rustling noise , increasing , flies , 505 510 Strikes the still shore ...
... shore . Adjoins a lake , inclosed with willows round , Where swelling waves have overflow'd the mound , And muddy , stagnate , on the lower ground , From thence a rustling noise , increasing , flies , 505 510 Strikes the still shore ...
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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...