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... kind ; His person comely , fortunate his doom , So well could he the royal part assume , So much his qualities the observer strike , All own'd they never had beheld his like . This Tartar without peer , this valiant king , Saw its fair ...
... kind ; His person comely , fortunate his doom , So well could he the royal part assume , So much his qualities the observer strike , All own'd they never had beheld his like . This Tartar without peer , this valiant king , Saw its fair ...
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... kind reposed ; But the horse vanishes - I know not how , Nor shall I dare describe ; but suffer now The revel's mirth the enliven'd guests to absorb , Till the sky blush with day's returning orb . PART II . COMPOSING Sleep , Digestion's ...
... kind reposed ; But the horse vanishes - I know not how , Nor shall I dare describe ; but suffer now The revel's mirth the enliven'd guests to absorb , Till the sky blush with day's returning orb . PART II . COMPOSING Sleep , Digestion's ...
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... kind upbraidings , and with treacherous tears , " That my poor heart , which well he knew to move , " Lest love so violent his death should prove , " Granted whate'er , protesting truth , he craved ; " And only from the wretch my honour ...
... kind upbraidings , and with treacherous tears , " That my poor heart , which well he knew to move , " Lest love so violent his death should prove , " Granted whate'er , protesting truth , he craved ; " And only from the wretch my honour ...
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... kind . ' << Perhaps ' tis noticed by the race of man ; " And change and novelty no less its plan . " For birds in cages sumptuously are fed , " Their floor below with softest covering spread ; " And servants store , as waiting on their ...
... kind . ' << Perhaps ' tis noticed by the race of man ; " And change and novelty no less its plan . " For birds in cages sumptuously are fed , " Their floor below with softest covering spread ; " And servants store , as waiting on their ...
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... kind I next should trace To Adam , father of the human race . * Our tie , you hold , is no conjecture vague : Then why more plague me than even strangers plague ? ' Manius hæres . Progenies terræ ? 2 quære ex me , quis mihi quartus Sit ...
... kind I next should trace To Adam , father of the human race . * Our tie , you hold , is no conjecture vague : Then why more plague me than even strangers plague ? ' Manius hæres . Progenies terræ ? 2 quære ex me , quis mihi quartus Sit ...
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Page 87 - Syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus, Pes citus ; unde etiam trimetris accrescere jussit Nomen iambeis, quum senos redderet ictus Primus ad extremum similis sibi. Non ita pridem, Tardior ut paulo graviorque veniret ad aures, 255 Spondees stabiles in jura paterna recepit Commodus et patiens, non ut de sede secunda Cederet aut quarta socialiter.
Page 71 - Publica materies privati juris erit, si Non circa vilem patulumque moraberis orbem : Nee verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus Interpres ; nee desilies imitator in arctum, Unde pedem proferre pudor vetet, aut operis lex. The commentary thus illustrates it : " But the formation of quite new characters is a work of great difficulty and hazard.
Page 91 - Successit vetus his comoedia, non sine multa Laude ; sed in vitium libertas excidit et vim Dignam lege regi ; lex est accepta chorusque Turpiter obticuit sublato jure nocendi.
Page 5 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, no Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass. And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 62 - Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, Quem penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi.
Page 73 - Non fumum ex fulgore sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat, Antiphaten Scyllamque et cum Cyclope Chary bdin. 145 Nec reditum Diomedis ab interitu Meleagri, Nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo ; Semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit, et quae...
Page 75 - ... tandem custode remoto, gaudet equis canibusque et aprici gramine campi, cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris, sublimis cupidusque et amata relinquere pernix.
Page 59 - In verbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis, Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte...
Page 83 - Ne quicunque deus, quicunque adhibebitur heros, Regali conspectus in auro nuper et ostro, Migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas, Aut dum vitat humum nubes et inania captet.
Page 74 - Imberbus iuvenis, tandem custode remoto, gaudet equis canibusque et aprici gramine campi, cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris...