Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. by dr. Garth, and others |
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Achelous Ajax altar arms bear behold bless'd blood breast breath Byblis call'd Caunus Ceres Ceyx chang'd charms Cinyras confess'd cries crime crown'd dart daughter death drew earth Ev'n eyes face fair fame fatal fate father fear fierce fire fix'd flame fled flew flies fury Galanthis goddess gods grief ground hair hand head heart heaven heavenly Hippomenes honour impious Iphis join'd Jove king Latian light limbs lov'd maid mortal mourn Myrrha Naiads night nymph o'er once Ovid pass'd Peleus Pentheus Perseus Phaëton Phineus Phocus Phoebus Pirithous plain pleas'd possess'd pow'r pray'r press'd Procris purple pursue race rage rais'd rise Scylla seas seem'd seiz'd shade shore show'd sight sire skies slain soft soul spoke spring stood STORY streams strove tears Tereus thee Theseus thou Thracian tongue transform'd trembling turn'd Twas Vertumnus view'd virgin waves winds wings wood wound wretched youth
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Side 54 - The mountain nymphs and Themis they adore, And from her oracles relief implore. The most upright of mortal men was he; The most sincere and holy woman, she. When Jupiter, surveying Earth from high, Beheld it in a lake of water lie...
Side 86 - The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heaven drops down, or seems at least to drop; Till on the Po his blasted corpse was hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world.
Side 67 - Tracbin court, The wreck of wretched Ceyx to report : Before his queen bid the pale spectre stand, Who begs a vain relief at Juno's hand.
Side 122 - It happen'd once, within a shady wood, Two twisted snakes he in conjunction view'd ; When with his staff their slimy folds he broke. And lost his manhood at the fatal stroke. But, after seven revolving years he view'd The self-same serpents in the self-same wood ;
Side 94 - The shaggy bear, though now herself was one ! How from the sight of rugged wolves retire, Although the grim Lycaon was her sire ! But now her son had fifteen summers told, Fierce at the chase, and in the forest bold ; When, as he beat the woods in quest of prey, He...
Side 62 - Mine is the invention of the charming lyre ; Sweet notes, and heavenly numbers, I inspire. Sure is my bow, unerring is my dart ; But ah ! more deadly his, who pierced my heart.
Side 71 - I see the right, and I approve it too ; Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.
Side 44 - The golden age was" first ; when man, yet new, No rule but uncorrupted reason knew ; And, with a native bent, did good pursue.
Side 81 - Had turn'd it to the bird that bears his name. A truce succeeds the labours of this day, And arms suspended with a long delay. While Trojan walls are kept with watch and ward; The Greeks before their trenches mount the guard ; The feast...
Side 82 - That, deck'd with stars, lie scatter'd o'er the skies. There is a place above, where Scorpio bent In tail and arms surrounds a vast extent ; In a wide circuit of the heavens he shines, And fills the space of two celestial signs.