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Page 201 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower Glistering with dew, fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 216 - Audieras, et fama fuit ; sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila veniente columbas.
Page 138 - Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes...
Page 160 - Informes hiemes reducit 15 luppiter, idem Summovet. Non, si male nunc, et olim Sic erit : quondam cithara tacentem Suscitat musam neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo. 20 Rebus angustis animosus atque Fortis appare ; sapienter idem Contrahes vento nimium secundo Turgida vela.
Page 167 - Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched embower...
Page 157 - The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Page 197 - Arcadiis rupibus ingemuit. i) ergo velocem potuit domuisse puellam: tantum in amore preces et benefacta valent. in me tardus Amor non ullas cogitat artes, nee meminit notas, ut prius, ire vias.
Page 131 - Buechler. o bona pastoris, si quis non pauperis usum mente prius docta fastidiat et probet illi 60 omnia luxuriae pretiis incognita curis quae lacerant avidas inimico pectore mentes.
Page 208 - ... exemplar whence it stole Those animating charms. Thus Beauty's palm Betwixt them wavering hangs : applauding Love Doubts where to choose ; and mortal man aspires To tempt creative praise. As when a cloud Of gathering hail with limpid crusts of ice...
Page 179 - There are none 25 who have read him but are acquainted with his way of playing with Words. I will give one Example for all, which the Reader may find in the very entrance of his Works, I mean the Prologue to Amphitruo: Justam rem $ facilem (esse) oratum d vobis volo : 30 Nam juste ab justis Justus sum Orator datus.