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. 1795 Excerpt: ...remain, Still thy light limbs with vigour move: Join in brisk dance the Nymph and Swain, And yield thy melting soul to love. 'so With frolic mirth regale thy prime i The glade, the bower, thy steps invite: Drop, faithful to thy charmer's time, Love's whispers in the ear of Night; When bursts of studied laughter prove, ...
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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. 1795 Excerpt: ...remain, Still thy light limbs with vigour move: Join in brisk dance the Nymph and Swain, And yield thy melting soul to love. 'so With frolic mirth regale thy prime i The glade, the bower, thy steps invite: Drop, faithful to thy charmer's time, Love's whispers in the ear of Night; When bursts of studied laughter prove, 25 Where the fly wantons lurking stand; When thy warm grasp the pledge of love Tears from the coyly-willing hand. ODE XV. In Ida's ships when Helen's treacherous guest O'er the rough surge bore off his lawless love? Sage Nereus husht the driving winds to rest, And thus denounct th' unwelcome will of Jove. Thou convoy'st home with inauspicious sail, j That bliss, which Greece combin'd will soon annoy; Thy ravilh'd nuptials soon shall Priam wail, Soon sink in dust th' imperial towers of Troy. Eheu, quantus equis, quantus adest viris Sudor.' quanta moves funera Dardanae Genti.' jam galeam Pallas et aegida Currusquc et rabiem parat. Nequicquam, Veneris praefidio ferox, Pectes caesariem; grataque feminis Imbelli cithara carmina divides: Nequicquam thalamo graves Hastas, et calami spicula Cnoslii Vitabis, strepitumque, et celerem sequi Ajacem: tamen, heu, serus adulteros Crines pulvere coliines. Non Laertiaden, exitium tuae' Gentis, non Pylium Nestora respicis? Urgent impavidi te Salaminius Teucerque, et Sthenelus sciens Pugnae; five opus est imperitare cquis, Non auriga piger. Merionem quoque Nofces, ccce furit te reperire atrox Tydides melior patre: Quern tu, cervus uti vallis in altera Visum parte lupum graminis immemor, Sublimi fugies mollis anhelitu, Non hoc pollicitus tuae. Iracunda diem proferet Ilio, Matronisque Phrygum, claffis Achillei. Post certas hiemes uret Achiacus Ignis Hi acas domos. The steeds, the men, what to
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