De poëtis latinis Nederlandiarum

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apud H.W. Hazenberg et socios, 1843 - Latin poetry, Medieval and modern - 575 pages

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Page 366 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 367 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 366 - ... winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 39 - Lyaeum, cum dabit amplexus atque oscula dulcia figet, occultum inspires ignem fallasque veneno.' Paret Amor dictis carae genetricis, et alas exuit et gressu gaudens incedit luli.
Page 185 - Totum muneris hoc tui est, Quod monstror digito praetereuntium Romanae fidicen lyrae : Quod spiro et placeo, si placeo, tuum est.
Page 366 - O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature; on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 250 - Coligny l'attendait d'un visage intrépide : Et bientôt dans le flanc ce monstre furieux Lui plonge son épée, en détournant les yeux, De peur que d'un coup d'œil cet auguste visage Ne fit trembler son bras, et glaçât son courage.
Page 243 - Si memini, fuerant tibi quattuor, Aelia, dentes: expulit una duos tussis et una duos.
Page 167 - Tu modo nascenti puero, quo férrea primum desinet ac toto surget gens áurea mundo, casta fave Lucina : tuus iam régnât Apollo. 10 Teque adeo decus hoc aevi te consule inibit, Pollio, et incipient magni procederé menses.
Page 474 - Pyrrha, sub antrof cui flavam religas comam, simplex munditiis? heu quoties fidem mutatosque deos flebit et aspera nigris aequora ventis emirabitur insolens, qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea; qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem sperat nescius aurae fallacis. miseri, quibus intentata nites ! me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo.

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