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Page xiv
... tear to pieces " for his bad verses " ( Shakspeare's Julius Cæsar , act iii . sc . 3 ) . To what the poet saw and felt during this expedition we probably owe many of the finest passages in his poems . It gave rise directly to his ...
... tear to pieces " for his bad verses " ( Shakspeare's Julius Cæsar , act iii . sc . 3 ) . To what the poet saw and felt during this expedition we probably owe many of the finest passages in his poems . It gave rise directly to his ...
Page xvi
... his beautiful address to Sirmio . In such a place , and at such a time , the void would have been most poignantly present , and his eyes could not have seen for tears the brightest smile of his beloved xvi INTRODUCTION .
... his beautiful address to Sirmio . In such a place , and at such a time , the void would have been most poignantly present , and his eyes could not have seen for tears the brightest smile of his beloved xvi INTRODUCTION .
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Gaius Valerius Catullus. have seen for tears the brightest smile of his beloved Lydian lake ! But we are not left to mere inference on the subject , for the language of his deeply pathetic lines at his brother's tomb ( p . 124 , infra ) ...
Gaius Valerius Catullus. have seen for tears the brightest smile of his beloved Lydian lake ! But we are not left to mere inference on the subject , for the language of his deeply pathetic lines at his brother's tomb ( p . 124 , infra ) ...
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... tear riveted his soul melt away one by one . himself away , but his senses are still held in thraldom by the lady's fatal beauty . He hates her for her heartless wan- tonness , yet he grovels before her charms . His reason , his self ...
... tear riveted his soul melt away one by one . himself away , but his senses are still held in thraldom by the lady's fatal beauty . He hates her for her heartless wan- tonness , yet he grovels before her charms . His reason , his self ...
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... Tear from thy heart each tender thought , That round her image there did grow ! Girl , fare thee well ! Catullus ne'er Will sue , where love is met with scorn ; But , false one , thou with none to care For thee , on thy lone couch shalt ...
... Tear from thy heart each tender thought , That round her image there did grow ! Girl , fare thee well ! Catullus ne'er Will sue , where love is met with scorn ; But , false one , thou with none to care For thee , on thy lone couch shalt ...
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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?