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... boast- Thy song will never reach Oblivion's coast . THYR . Begin , dear Muse , the strain of pas- toral woe . Lo , Ætna's swain ! ' tis Thyrsis ' notes that flow ! Where stray'd ye , nymphs , when Daphnis pined with 1 . 7 THYRSIS .
... boast- Thy song will never reach Oblivion's coast . THYR . Begin , dear Muse , the strain of pas- toral woe . Lo , Ætna's swain ! ' tis Thyrsis ' notes that flow ! Where stray'd ye , nymphs , when Daphnis pined with 1 . 7 THYRSIS .
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... never be call'd Lacon more ! [ shore- Or into Crathis ' streams that roll so deep , In madness may I plunge from yonder steep ! COм . And by the Nymphs , the Fountain Nymphs , I swear , In yonder fane propitious to my prayer ; Comates never ...
... never be call'd Lacon more ! [ shore- Or into Crathis ' streams that roll so deep , In madness may I plunge from yonder steep ! COм . And by the Nymphs , the Fountain Nymphs , I swear , In yonder fane propitious to my prayer ; Comates never ...
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... thine to brag : But tell me , fragment of the flinty crag ! Did never in thy heart a kindness lurk , That for a moment's pause delay'd thy work ? MILO . No - No - such thoughts should ne'er 44 THEOCRITUS . The Reapers.
... thine to brag : But tell me , fragment of the flinty crag ! Did never in thy heart a kindness lurk , That for a moment's pause delay'd thy work ? MILO . No - No - such thoughts should ne'er 44 THEOCRITUS . The Reapers.
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... never watch for love ? MILO . Not I ! -love's watchings may I never prove . His tongue in lambkin's blood if Rover steep , Rover will ever feel a thirst for sheep . [ more ! BAT . Ah , Milo ! I have loved ten days and MILO . Enjoy it ...
... never watch for love ? MILO . Not I ! -love's watchings may I never prove . His tongue in lambkin's blood if Rover steep , Rover will ever feel a thirst for sheep . [ more ! BAT . Ah , Milo ! I have loved ten days and MILO . Enjoy it ...
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... never thirst , For they may drink , my striplings , till they burst , Boil , Pinchpenny , the lentils whole , nor stint Your slaves ; you'd slit a bean , or flay a flint , ' Thus should the reapers carol toil away ; Thus pass , with ...
... never thirst , For they may drink , my striplings , till they burst , Boil , Pinchpenny , the lentils whole , nor stint Your slaves ; you'd slit a bean , or flay a flint , ' Thus should the reapers carol toil away ; Thus pass , with ...
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Adonis Alcmena amidst Amycus Anacreon ancient Apollonius Rhodius Aratus bard beautiful Bion bless'd bloom bosom Brasidas breast breath Bucolic Catullus character charms Cicada cries Cupid DAPH Daphnis death delight display'd e'en earth eclogue ELEGY Epigrams Epithalamium eyes fair fame fate flame flowers Galatea genius glow goat goatherd Gorgo grace Greek grove hail hath heart Heinsius Hercules herds herdsman honour Hylas Idyllia IDYLLIUM imitated Jove kiss live lover Lycidas maid melting cadence Moschus Muse Nicias numbers flow nymph o'er Orpheus Ovid pale pass'd passage pastoral woe piece Pindar pipe poem poet Pollux Praxinoe Priapus Ptolemy racters rise rustic sacred says scene shade SHEP shepherd Sicilian Sicily sigh sing sleep soft song sorrows soul strain of pastoral sung sure swain sweet tears tenderest notes complain thee Theocritus thine thou Thyrsis translator Tyrtæus Venus Virgil virgin Warton wave Whilst wild youth
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Page 257 - Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass: for the water was stained to a surprising redness; and, as we observed in travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of minium, or red earth, washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood...