FLOSCULI LITERARUM;

OR,

Gems from the Poetry of all Time.

FAITHFULLY

RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE.

BY

JOHN GEORGE HARDING.

"pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur."-CICERO.
Mediocribus esse poetis,

Non Homines, non Dii, non concessere columnæ."-HORACE.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

1869.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

280.j. 231

The Second Edition

OF THIS LITTLE VOLUME

IS

Dedicated, by Permission, to

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, K.G.,

&c.;

WHOSE FAME AS A BRILLIANT STATESMAN

IS YET MORE ENDURINGLY ENRICHED BY HIS GRACEFUL

AND EXACT POETICAL RENDERING

OF THE ILIAD OF HOMER.

OVERVALE,

WESTON-SUPER-MARE,

May, 1800.

The previous Edition

. OF EXACT TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GEMS OF THE POETS OF ALL

TIME WAS

Dedicated, by Permission, to

THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.,

ETC., ETC.,

ONE WHO, AS MEN OF ALL OPINIONS MUST ADMIT,

COMBINES THE

COMMANDING QUALITIES OF THE GREAT STATESMAN WITH THE

ELEGANT ADVANTAGE OF SHINING MOST CONSPICUOUSLY

AMONG MEN OF LETTERS.

OVERVALE,

WESTON-SUPER-MARE,

August, 1868.

CONTENTS.

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THE SONG OF A BELL-(SCHILLER)

THEN with the festive peal of joy

THE HADES OF VIRGIL-ÆNEID VI., 268.

THEY PASSED alone, and screened by night's dun pall

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IN THE WOODS: A LIFE'S DREAMLAND.

WE wandered long, a darksome wood within (Original) .

HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.

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DIDO'S CURSE-ENEID, LIB. IV., 362-387.

DIDO HIM SPEAKING, views awhile askance .

42

ARMAGEDDON.

HARK, HARK, the crash of shivered spear (Original)