Stories from Ovid in elegiac verse. With notes ... By R. W. Taylor

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London, Oxford and Cambridge, 1876 - 167 Seiten

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Seite 23 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Seite 88 - And summer's lease hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion...
Seite 59 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 15 - HECUBA. Recommended in the Guide to the Choice of Classical Books, by JB Mayor, MA, Professor of Classical Literature at King's College, late Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge. " Mr. Sidgwick has put on the title-pages of these modest little volumes the words 'Rugby Edition/ but we shall be much mistaken if they do not find a far wider circulation.
Seite 32 - By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith was shrieking; And in the scowl of heaven each face Grew dark as they were speaking. But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode armed men, Their trampling sounded nearer. " O haste thee, haste! " the lady cries, ' ' Though tempests round us gather; I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father.
Seite 79 - ... et tepidum volucres concentibus aera mulcent, ludit et in pratis luxuriatque pecus. tum blandi soles, ignotaque prodit hirundo et luteum celsa sub trabe figit opus : tum patitur cultus ager et renovatur aratro. 160 haec anni novitas iure vocanda fuit.

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