Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book X-XV. The EpistlesA. J. Valpy, 1833 |
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Achilles Acontius Æneas Ajax arms bear behold betray'd birds bless'd blood bore breast Briseis Cæneus call'd centaur Ceyx charms cried crime Cycnus CYPARISSUS dart death Diomed dreadful earth Ev'n eyes face fair fame fatal fate father fear field fierce fight fill'd fire fix'd flame fled flew flies flood goddess gods grace Grecian grief hair hand haste heart heaven Hector Hecuba hero Hippomenes honor join'd Jove king Latian Lemnos light limbs live Macareus maid Menelaus mighty mind Mopsus mourn night nymph o'er once OVID pass'd Peleus Philoctetes Phoebus Pirithous plain prayers prey Priam Protesilaus purple queen race rage rise sacred sails Sappho Scylla seas seem'd shade shore sight sire skies slain soft soul stood streams sword tears thee Theseus thine thou Thracian trembling Trojan Troy turn'd Twas Ulysses Venus Vertumnus virgin vows waves wife winds wound wretch youth
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Page 75 - Dost thou not blush, to spend thy shafts in vain On a degenerate and ignoble train ? If fame, or better vengeance, be thy care, There aim : and, with one arrow, end the war.
Page 167 - To inclose his body, and his soul expel. Ill customs by degrees to habits rise, 111 habits soon become exalted vice : What more advance can mortals make in sin, So near perfection, who with blood begin ? Deaf to the calf that lies beneath the knife, Looks up, and from her butcher begs her life...
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Page 168 - Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have : But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Page 78 - And he who shunn'd all honors gain the best ; And let me stand excluded from my right, Robb'd of my kinsman's arms, who first appear'd in fight. Better for us, at home...
Page 152 - And plough'd with pains, thy else ungrateful field ? From his yet reeking neck to draw the yoke, That neck, with which the surly clods he broke ; And to the hatchet yield thy husbandman, , Who finish'd Autumn, and the Spring began J Nor this alone ! but Heav'n itself to bribe, We to the gods our impious acts ascribe : First recompense with death their creatures...
Page 86 - There in the midst of arms, I plead our cause, Urge the foul rape, and violated laws ; Accuse the foes, as authors of the strife, Reproach the ravisher, demand the wife. Priam, Antenor, and the wiser few...
Page 88 - Were promis'd to the spy for his nocturnal deeds : And let dull Ajax bear away my right, When all his days outbalance this one night. Nor fought I darkling still : the sun beheld With...