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" ... And from no miseries shrink, for sake of thee ? Ah ! would, my life ! these tasks were proved in me ! Then should we find this gallant, now so proud, Skulk his mean head among the coward crowd. Let the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One... "
Specimens of the Classic Poets: In a Chronological Series from Homer to ... - Page 264
by Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814
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Specimens of the classic poets in a chronolgical series from Homer ..., Volume 2

Specimens - 1814 - 424 pages
...blush, thus charming as thou art: Scarce two short nights in tender joys are sped, And I am call'd intruder on thy bed. Yet would'st thou praise my person...gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes — thou shall; cull my bones, which tears bedew : " Propertius ! these were thine : ah tried and true ! Ah...
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Erotica. The elegies of Propertius, the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, and ...

Sextus Propertius - 1854 - 508 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief...
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Erotica: The Elegies of Propertius, The Satyricon of Petronius and The ...

Walter Keating Kelly - Classical literature - 1854 - 524 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes — thou shall cull my bones, which tears bedew : " Propertius ! these were thine : ah tried and true ! Ah me...
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Erotica: The Elegies of Propertius, The Satyricon of Petronius and The ...

Walter Keating Kelly - Classical literature - 1880 - 542 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...wrongs are slight : • A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief...
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The Elegies of Propertius: The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, & the Kisses ...

Sextus Propertius, Aristaenetus - Latin literature - 1883 - 540 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief...
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The Elegies of Propertius: With Notes

Sextus Propertius - 1884 - 238 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his pufFd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief...
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Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse

Thomas Robert Smith - English poetry - 1927 - 812 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puffed success; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes—thou shalt cull my bones, which tears bedew: "Propertius! these were thine ah tried and true!...
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