Stories from Ovid [selected from the Metamorphoses] with notes by R.W. Taylor |
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... monster . and rescues the maiden . " Ile slays the monster ( This story is prettily told by Mr. Morris in The Earthly Paradise , ' as part of the Doom of Acrisius , ' and by Mr. Kingsley in his poem ' Andromeda . ' ) Cassiopeia , wife ...
... monster . and rescues the maiden . " Ile slays the monster ( This story is prettily told by Mr. Morris in The Earthly Paradise , ' as part of the Doom of Acrisius , ' and by Mr. Kingsley in his poem ' Andromeda . ' ) Cassiopeia , wife ...
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... monster and strikes him again and again , and at last dispatches him outright . Ecce velut navis praefixo concita rostro Sulcat aquas , iuvenum sudantibus acta lacertis , Sic fera dimotis impulsu pectoris undis Tantum aberat scopulis ...
... monster and strikes him again and again , and at last dispatches him outright . Ecce velut navis praefixo concita rostro Sulcat aquas , iuvenum sudantibus acta lacertis , Sic fera dimotis impulsu pectoris undis Tantum aberat scopulis ...
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... monster appears in a new character , as a minstrel , and sings Galatea's charms and bewails her coldness . 125 Prominet in pontum cuneatus acumine longo 30 Collis ; utrumque latus circumfluit aequoris unda . Huc ferus ascendit Cyclops ...
... monster appears in a new character , as a minstrel , and sings Galatea's charms and bewails her coldness . 125 Prominet in pontum cuneatus acumine longo 30 Collis ; utrumque latus circumfluit aequoris unda . Huc ferus ascendit Cyclops ...
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... monster draws back his neck , till at last he succeeds in pinning him , and follows him up closely till he drives his spear home into an oak tree . 75. Sedere , not a prose construction : arcebat non patiebatur . Words of preventing ...
... monster draws back his neck , till at last he succeeds in pinning him , and follows him up closely till he drives his spear home into an oak tree . 75. Sedere , not a prose construction : arcebat non patiebatur . Words of preventing ...
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... monster and rescued by the sun - god , seems far - fetched . While we may accept the main outline of a solar myth , we may surely allow some licence to the poetic faculty in the details . It is interesting to compare with this story the ...
... monster and rescued by the sun - god , seems far - fetched . While we may accept the main outline of a solar myth , we may surely allow some licence to the poetic faculty in the details . It is interesting to compare with this story the ...
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Achelous Acis amor Amphion Apollo Arcadia Argolis ARGUMENT Atalanta auras Bacchus back beauty Book Books bracchia Cadmus called CAMBRIDGE carried Cassiopeia Cephalus changed children city College coniuge coniunx Cyane Cyclops Daphne daughter death Delos deus Diana dixit dragon Edited Eurydice Eurystheus famous father fear first fleece form Galatea generally gives goddess gods golden great Greek head help Hence Hercules Hippomenes illa ille Iuno Iuppiter Jason Join Jupiter king last Latin Latona legend long love made maiden make Midas middle mihi monster mother name Naxos Niobe note Notes Orpheus Ovid Pallas Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passed pectore people Perque Perseus Phrixus place quum river rock School seems shape silva simul sine small stone Stories STORR story subject tamen teeth Thebes three tibi time told turned undas used Utque viii virgo vulnere water wife word
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Seite 117 - 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.
Seite 93 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Seite 53 - 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...
Seite 34 - 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...
Seite 72 - The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine...
Seite 115 - Thy stone, O Sisyphus, stands still, Ixion rests upon his wheel, And the pale spectres dance : The Furies sink upon their iron beds, And snakes uncurl'd hang listening round their heads.
Seite 15 - ... inventum medicina meum est, opiferque per orbem dicor, et herbarum subiecta potentia nobis: ei mihi, quod nullis amor est sanabilis herbis, nee prosunt domino, quae prosunt omnibus, artes!
Seite 111 - Under the trees now tripped, now solemn stood, Nymphs of Diana's train, and Naiades, With fruits and flowers from Amalthea's horn, And ladies of the Hesperides, that seemed Fairer than feigned of old, or fabled since Of faery damsels, met in forest wide By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
Seite 113 - Of dragon-watch, with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence.