The Poems of Valerius Catullus: With Life of the Poet, Excursûs, and Illustrative Notes

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William P. Nimmo, 1867 - 291 páginas
 

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Página 215 - Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue "О plump head-waiter at the Cock, To which I most resort, How goes the time? 'Tis five o'clock. Go fetch a pint of port : But let it not be such as that You set before chance-comers, But such whose father-grape grew fat On Lusitanian summers.
Página 233 - slumber keeps, While I muse upon thy face; And a languid fire creeps Through my veins to all my frame, Dissolving and slowly : soon From thy rose-red lips my name
Página 163 - me ! yet now upon thy tomb I lay, All soak'd with tears for thee, thee loved so well, What gifts our fathers gave the honour'd clay Of valued friends ; take them, my grief they tell : And now, for ever hail
Página 285 - Act ii., Scene 4— He taught the implicated orbits woven Of the wide-wandering stars ! and how the sun Changes his lair,
Página 269 - taught to rule, as life directs the limbs, The tempest-winged chariots of the ocean, And the Celt knew the Indian.
Página 163 - many lands and oceans borne, I reach thy grave, death's last sad rite to pay ; To call thy silent dust in vain, and mourn, Since ruthless fate has hurried thee away
Página 39 - To all prepared with me to brave the way, To dare whate'er the eternal gods decree— These few unwelcome words to her convey Who once was all to me. Still let her revel with her godless train, Still clasp her hundred slaves to passion's thrall, Still truly love not one, but ever drain The life-blood of them all. Nor let her more my
Página 271 - Her looks were like a flower in May, Her smile was like a summer morn.
Página 233 - life. I die with my delight, before I hear what I would hear from
Página 39 - dine, Bring but good cheer—that chance is thine Some days hereafter ; Mind a fair girl, too, wit, and wine, And merry laughter. Bring

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