A Selection from the Remains of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: With Glossary and ProlegomenaW.B. Kelly, 1862 - 155 sider |
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Side 8 - wound, in Lebanon, allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly
Side 7 - stained to a surprising redness ; and, as we observed in travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way, into a reddish hue, occasioned, doubtless, by a sort of minium or red earth washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not by any stain from the blood of Adonis.' The Prophet Ezekiel beheld the
Side 51 - So tedious is this day, As is the night before some festival To an impatient child, that hath new robes, And may not wear them." Compare too " tardis . . mensibus,
Side 61 - it seems they say ; for he may not For ever dye, and ever buried bee In baleful night, where all thinges are forgot ; All be he subject to mortalitie, Yet is eterne in mutabilitie, And by succession made perpetual!, Transformed oft, and chaunged diverslie : For him the father of all
Side 7 - In Maundrell's Travels we meet with a curious illustration of this ancient superstition. ' We had the fortune to see (says Mr. M. ) what may be supposed to be the occasion of that opinion which Lucian relates
Side 80 - To some others at these times he teacheth, how to make pictures of waxe or claye, that by the roasting thereof, the persons that they beare the name of, may be continually melted or dried away by continuall sicknesse ..... They can bewitch and take the
Side lviii - There yet (some say) in secret he does ly, Lapped in flowres and prêtions spycery, By her hid from the world, and from the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love envy
Side 7 - the river Adonis, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour, which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass, for the
Side 88 - Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vaporous drop profound, I'll catch it ere it comes to ground.
Side 83 - Bonumsit! Nescio quid certe est ; et Hylax in limine latrat. Credimus ? an qui amant, ipsi sibi somnia fingunt ? Parcite, ab urbe venit, jam parcite, carmina,