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Page xi
... probably handsome person , he was sure to be a favourite in the best circles , and to be surrounded by all the fascinations with which beauty , fashion , and intellect could tempt the young Roman of that excitable and dissolute age . It ...
... probably handsome person , he was sure to be a favourite in the best circles , and to be surrounded by all the fascinations with which beauty , fashion , and intellect could tempt the young Roman of that excitable and dissolute age . It ...
Page xv
... probably owe the almost Homeric freshness and truth of his sea and land painting . Catullus appears to have made it alone . His comrades , much as they liked his society , had probably some of Horace's disrelish for the sea , and might ...
... probably owe the almost Homeric freshness and truth of his sea and land painting . Catullus appears to have made it alone . His comrades , much as they liked his society , had probably some of Horace's disrelish for the sea , and might ...
Page xvii
... probably written during the same period of de- jection . That Catullus should have written to his friends upon this theme as he has done , speaks volumes as to the sincerity and depth of their friendship . Men are bound by no common ...
... probably written during the same period of de- jection . That Catullus should have written to his friends upon this theme as he has done , speaks volumes as to the sincerity and depth of their friendship . Men are bound by no common ...
Page xx
... probably be doing our ancestors some injustice if we concluded , because they were more plain - spoken than ourselves , that our social virtues must therefore put theirs to shame . But at all events , in Rome very good men were not ...
... probably be doing our ancestors some injustice if we concluded , because they were more plain - spoken than ourselves , that our social virtues must therefore put theirs to shame . But at all events , in Rome very good men were not ...
Page xxi
... probably near the truth when he wrote Quisquis versibus exprimit Catullum , Raro moribus exprimit Catonem . A Catullus in verse is scarce in the way to Display in his morals the virtues of Cato . mastering passion than the series of his ...
... probably near the truth when he wrote Quisquis versibus exprimit Catullum , Raro moribus exprimit Catonem . A Catullus in verse is scarce in the way to Display in his morals the virtues of Cato . mastering passion than the series of his ...
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Acme Amastris Anon Ariadne Bacchus beauty Bithynia blest bliss breast bride brother Cæsar Calvus Catullus Catullus's charm chaste Cicero CORNELIUS NEPOS couch Cybele Cytorus dear delight despair divine dost doth e'er epigram epithalamium eyes Fabullus fair feeling fire flower Foolscap Octavo Furius gaze gods grace grief Hail hear heart Herrick Hesper Hodiè husband Hymenæus infra Jove kiss lady Laodamia Lesbia lines lips lover maid maiden Mamurra MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO Manlius mistress mother Muretus neque night nuptial o'er Octavo Oh Hymen Hymenæus Ovid passion Peleus poem of Catullus poet Post Octavo prætor queen Roman says scorn Second Edition shine shore siege of Peschiera Sirmio Small Octavo smile song soul spindles stars sweet Tale tears thee Theseus Thessaly Thetis thine Third Edition thou threads of doom Tibullus translator Verannius verses virgin Volumes weave the threads wert Whilst wild youth
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Page 144 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the...
Page 186 - The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay; Ah! see, whoso fayre thing dost fain to see, In springing flower the image of thy day! Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly she Doth first peep forth with bashful modesty, That fairer seems the less ye see her may! Lo! see soon after, how more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display; Lo! see soon after, how she fades and falls away!
Page 170 - And being ravish'd thus, Come, I will drink a tun To my Propertius. Now, to Tibullus next, This flood I drink to thee; — But stay, I see a text, That this presents to me. Behold! Tibullus lies Here burnt, whose small return Of ashes scarce suffice To fill a little urn. Trust to good verses then; They only will aspire, When pyramids, as men, Are lost i' th
Page 186 - Her bared bosom she doth broad display; Lo see soon after, how she fades, and falls away. So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower...
Page 183 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before...
Page 194 - And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel?