Selections from the Poems of Ovid: Chiefly the MetamorphosesGinn, Heath & Company, 1883 |
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... mountain ridge of peculiar shape ( Atlas ) , a bird of plaintive note ( Philomela ) , or a rock weeping with perpetual springs ( Niobe ) . To give something like system , order , and development to this world of fable seems to have been ...
... mountain ridge of peculiar shape ( Atlas ) , a bird of plaintive note ( Philomela ) , or a rock weeping with perpetual springs ( Niobe ) . To give something like system , order , and development to this world of fable seems to have been ...
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... mountains and rivers , and alarm of Neptune himself ; Earth appeals to Jupiter , who blasts Phaethon with a thunderbolt ( 206-324 ) . His sisters are converted to poplars , and their tears to amber ( 325-366 ) ; while his kinsman Cygnus ...
... mountains and rivers , and alarm of Neptune himself ; Earth appeals to Jupiter , who blasts Phaethon with a thunderbolt ( 206-324 ) . His sisters are converted to poplars , and their tears to amber ( 325-366 ) ; while his kinsman Cygnus ...
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... mountain ( 615-662 ) . Flying over Æthiopia , he discovers the princess Andromeda , daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia , fastened to a cliff to be devoured by a sea - monster , which he attacks and slays , and so wins Andromeda for his ...
... mountain ( 615-662 ) . Flying over Æthiopia , he discovers the princess Andromeda , daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia , fastened to a cliff to be devoured by a sea - monster , which he attacks and slays , and so wins Andromeda for his ...
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... mountain - god , Apollo is judged victor ; and Midas pronouncing for Pan , his ears are by Apollo lengthened into ass's ears ( 146-179 ) ; the secret of which being by his servant whispered to the earth , there sprang up reeds , which ...
... mountain - god , Apollo is judged victor ; and Midas pronouncing for Pan , his ears are by Apollo lengthened into ass's ears ( 146-179 ) ; the secret of which being by his servant whispered to the earth , there sprang up reeds , which ...
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... regna , in Arabia Petræa . 63. juga , mountain ranges . Notice how Ovid varies the de- scription in the four cases . 64. Scythiam : this term was applied to the vast steppes of Independent Tartary and south - eastern Russia . It was.
... regna , in Arabia Petræa . 63. juga , mountain ranges . Notice how Ovid varies the de- scription in the four cases . 64. Scythiam : this term was applied to the vast steppes of Independent Tartary and south - eastern Russia . It was.
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Seite 239 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Seite 213 - Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view...
Seite 8 - Jovis arbore glandes. ver erat aeternum, placidique tepentibus auris mulcebant zephyri natos sine semine flores.
Seite 9 - Stygiisque admoverat umbris, effodiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum. 140 iamque nocens ferrum ferroque nocentius aurum prodierat; prodit Bellum, quod pugnat utroque, sanguineaque manu crepitantia concutit arma. vivitur ex rapto ; non hospes ab hospite tutus, non socer a genero; fratrum quoque gratia rara est.
Seite 38 - Semiramis urbem. notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit: tempore crevit amor; taedae quoque jure co'issent, 60 sed vetuere patres. Quod non potuere vetare, ex aequo captis ardebant mentibus ambo : conscius omnis abest ; nutu signisque loquuntur.
Seite 140 - Omnia mutantur, nihil interit: errat et illinc • 165 huc venit, hinc illuc et quoslibet occupat artus spiritus eque feris humana in corpora transit inque feras noster, nec tempore deperit ullo.
Seite 71 - XVIII. auraeque et venti montesque amnesque lacusque dique omnes nemorum dique omnes noctis adeste. quorum ope, cum volui, ripis mirantibus amnes in fontes rediere suos, concussaque sisto...
Seite 182 - Felices ambo, tempestiveque sepulti, Ante diem poenae quod periere meae ; Me quoque felicem, quod non viventibus illis Sum miser ; et de...
Seite 167 - Ergo, cum silices, cum dens patientis aratri depereant aevo, carmina morte carent.
Seite 7 - Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset: natus homo est, sive hunc divino semine fecit ille opifex rerum, mundi melioris origo, sive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab alto aethere cognati retinebat semina caeli; quam satus lapeto mixtam pluvialibus undis finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum, pronaque cum spectent animalia cetera terram, os homini sublime dedit caelumque videre iussit et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.