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Page xvi
... speaks of his finances being at rather a low ebb . Still , however low they may just then have been , a man who could make a tour through the Magnificas Asiae urbes , and pay the charges of a yachting excursion of such length , could ...
... speaks of his finances being at rather a low ebb . Still , however low they may just then have been , a man who could make a tour through the Magnificas Asiae urbes , and pay the charges of a yachting excursion of such length , could ...
Page xvii
... speaks of his brother's death as of something which has made the paternal hearth desolate , and stripped life for ... speaks volumes as to the sincerity and depth of their friendship . Men are bound by no common ties when heart speaks to ...
... speaks of his brother's death as of something which has made the paternal hearth desolate , and stripped life for ... speaks volumes as to the sincerity and depth of their friendship . Men are bound by no common ties when heart speaks to ...
Page xxiv
... speaks in no very flattering terms of his dis- cernment . Metellus Celer was certainly no fool ; but , on the contrary , if we are to trust Cicero's report of him , a man of high ability and noble principles . This , however , need not ...
... speaks in no very flattering terms of his dis- cernment . Metellus Celer was certainly no fool ; but , on the contrary , if we are to trust Cicero's report of him , a man of high ability and noble principles . This , however , need not ...
Page xxv
... speaks of " des vers échappés au délire de l'orgie ou de l'amour , " as his most important effusions . This style of commentary is most unjust . Besides his poems on Lesbia , Catullus wrote few verses that can be called erotic , and ...
... speaks of " des vers échappés au délire de l'orgie ou de l'amour , " as his most important effusions . This style of commentary is most unjust . Besides his poems on Lesbia , Catullus wrote few verses that can be called erotic , and ...
Page xxx
... speak except in terms of admiration . It is always graceful , and often vigorous . But the influence of Pope upon his style is too strongly apparent . The directness and sim- plicity of Catullus are often sacrificed for an antithesis ...
... speak except in terms of admiration . It is always graceful , and often vigorous . But the influence of Pope upon his style is too strongly apparent . The directness and sim- plicity of Catullus are often sacrificed for an antithesis ...
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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?