This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... flows; Of herbs and threads she knows the virtues rare, And the rank poison of the madding mare; Whene'er she wills, clouds gloom the summer sky--Whene'er she wills, the clouds from ether fly. Trust me: I've seen the stars drop crimson gore, And wan-faced Dian blush with purple o'er; Methinks she flutters through the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... flows; Of herbs and threads she knows the virtues rare, And the rank poison of the madding mare; Whene'er she wills, clouds gloom the summer sky--Whene'er she wills, the clouds from ether fly. Trust me: I've seen the stars drop crimson gore, And wan-faced Dian blush with purple o'er; Methinks she flutters through the shades of night--An njral crone with fciUlicrgnllbcdlght; And rumour says the same: her eyeballs start, ' And lightnings fierce from her twin orbits dart; Grandsires and grandams from the hollow mound She calls, and rends with spells the solid ground. Her tongue, long steeped in all the streams of guile, Can the pure bed of modesty defile. Ov. Met, vii. 192-209; Senec. Herc. Oet, 455 sq.; and Claud, in Rufinum: --Ire vagas quercus et fulmen stare coegi, Versaque non prono curvavi flumina lapsu In fontes reditura suos. Vide also Tibull., i. 8, 17, sq., and notes thereon. V. 45, 46. Haec--rogo. Cf. Ov. R. A., 253, 254: --Me duce non tumulo prod ire jubebitur umbra, Non anus in/ami carmine rumpit humum. Fast, iii. 317 and 327: --Hunc tu non poteris per te deducere coelo. Eliciunt coelo te, Jupiter. And Heroid., vi. 89, 90 (Hypsip.): --Per tumulos errat passis discincta capillis, Certaque de tepidis colligit ossa regis. V. 54. Ter cane, ter dictis despue carminibus. Cf. Cir. Virg., 372, 373: --..." Ter in gremium mecum " inquit "despue virgo, Despue ter virgo: numero dens impare gaudct." V. 59, 60. Nempe--meos. Cf. Virg. Aen., iv. 487: --Haec se carminibus promittit solvere mentes. Ver. 61, 62. Nocte--deos. Black cattle were the proper victims to the infernal gods. Cf. Virg. Aen., v. 735, 736: --... huc casta Sibylla Nigramm multo pecudum te sanguine ducet And Tibull., ill. 5, 33, 34, and notes. V. 63, 64. Non--velim. Cf. Ov. Met, xiv....
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