Stories from Ovid [selected from the Metamorphoses] with notes by R.W. Taylor |
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Achelous Acis aequore amor Amphion Apollo Argolis ARGUMENT Atalanta Athamas aura auras Bacchus back Baucis blood bracchia Cadmus called capillos carried Cephalus changed children comes coniuge coniunx construction corpore cursus Cyane Cyclops daughter death Delos deus Diana dixit dragon Dumque Eurydice famous first fleece Galatea gives goddess gods golden Greek head help Hence Hercules heros Hippomenes Iamque ignes illa ille inquit Iovis Iuno Iuppiter Jason Join Jupiter king last Latona long lost love made maiden Medea Midas mihi monster mora mother name Naxos Niobe note omnibus Orpheus oscula Ovid Pallas PARADISE LOST pectore people Perque Perseus Phoebus Phrixus place Proserpina Pyramus quum river rock sanguine second silva simul sine stone story subject tamen Tantalus tears teeth tellus terga Thebes Thisbe three tibi told turned undas undis used Utque vidit virgo visa vulnere vultus water wife world
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Página 89 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays.
Página 53 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 83 - Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 113 - The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine...
Página 87 - em, if thou canst : leave working. SONG. Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing ; To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Página 75 - Into the Euboic sea. Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle; and complain that fate Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.
Página 87 - Had ye been there; for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son? Whom universal Nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore.
Página 17 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 100 - Frustra, Medea, repugnas: Nescio quis deus obstat' ait; 'mirumque, nisi hoc est, Aut aliquid certe simile huic, quod amare vocatur. Nam cur iussa patris nimium mihi dura videntur?
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