The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Band 8,Teile 1-2

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Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1813

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Seite 23 - lines of the fourth. This version appeared in a small volume, in the year 1772, with the title of ' The Loves of Medea and Jason, a poem in three books, translated from the Greek of Apollonius
Seite 135 - With ample chest outspread, and nervous hands; Incessant draughts his furious thirst demands; The fountain from its rocky bed he drains, Prone like an ox that grazes on the plains.
Seite 39 - shook from her base profound. Then direful pangs Prometheus' bosom rent, And screams of torture through the air he sent. This unguent o'er the fragrant zone was laid, That bound the lovely bosom of the maid. Medea, hasting from the door, ascends The car; a virgin on each hand attends. She caught the reins, and with the sounding thong, Through the wide city lash'd the mules along.
Seite 99 - The' atoning sacrifices she began, That stains of blood remove from wretched man; For refuge when he flies to Vesta's shrine, And seeks remission from the pow'rs divine. High o'er their heads the little swine she held, New from the dam, and paps with nurture
Seite 57 - The son of JEson bounded mid the throng. Swift as the lightning, in a wintry night, From pitchy darkness vibrates sudden light; Now here, now there, it glances through the sky, And tells the' affrighted world a storm is nigh; So Jason
Seite 43 - refus'd. 1360 To fly, or to proceed, vain, vain her toil; Her feet beneath are rooted to the soil. Now quickly vanish'd all the
Seite 127 - came, With cries assembled round the Colchian dame. As when the parent bird in quest of food, Compell'd by hunger, leaves the callow brood, Unfit to tempt the sky, an hapless flock Within the cleft of some aspiring rock ; Abandon'd thus, if from the nest they fall, In vain for help the piteous nurslings call;
Seite 17 - have they wander'd to the Colchian plain, Through many a city, many a stormy main. If generous thoughts the precious fleece may yield, No force they meditate, no listed field. 480 Supreme in all things shall thy pleasure sway, And ample gifts for the possession pay. Their timely aid may quell the warlike kind,
Seite 101 - calls; again her aid requires; ' Haste, nymph belov'd, my wishes to fulfil; Toil is thy pleasure, when it works my will. With rapid course on varied pinions sweep, And summon Thetis from the briny deep. Say, Juno seeks her aid. From thence repair, Where Vulcan's forges cast a ruddy glare Along the strand, and
Seite 133 - birth. Some sacred fountain bubbling cool from earth, That, temper'd with the sun's translucent ray, May feverish pangs of ardent thirst allay! And, if our bark may gain Achaia's coast, 2220 The richest gifts that deities can boast, The sweetest perfumes that to heav'n ascend, To crown your rites, and glad your shrine, attend.

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