P. Hofmanni Peerlkamp Liber de vita, doctrina et facultate Nederlandorum qui carmina Latina composuerunt Ed. altera emendata

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Page 368 - 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 368 - O'er-picturing 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 369 - 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 43 - Quas et benigno numine Juppiter Defendit et curae sagaces Expediunt per acuta belli. V. DIVIS orte bonis. optime Romulae Custos gentis, abes jam nimium diu; Maturum reditum pollicitus patrum Sancto concilio redi. Lucem redde tuae, dux bone, patriae Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus Affulsit populo, gratior it dies Et soles melius nitent.
Page 368 - ... 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 293 - Semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper: est, non est quod agas, Attale, semper agis. si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas. Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam.
Page 252 - 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 fît trembler son bras et glaçât son courage.
Page 307 - Prognes iunxit. non pronuba luno, non Hymenaeus adest, non illi Gratia lecto. Eumenides tenuere faces de funere raptas, Eumenides stravere torum, tectoque profanus incubuit bubo thalamique in culmine sedit.
Page 187 - Et iam dente minus mordeor invido. O, testudinis aureae Dulcem quae strepitum, Fieri, temperas, O mutis quoque piscibus Donatura cycni, si libeat, sonum, 20 Totum muneris hoc tui est, Quod monstror digito praetereuntium Romanae fidicen lyrae : Quod spiro et placeo, si placeo, tuum est.
Page 245 - Si memini, fuerant tibi quattuor, Aelia, dentes: expulit una duos tussis et una duos.

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