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Apollo arms Asia Minor Bacchus bear beauteous beauty behold blood Boeotia breast breath bright Cadmus call'd celebrated chariot charms clouds constellation Crete cries dart daughter death deities Deucalion Diana divine earth Eurystheus eyes face fair fate father fear fire flame fled flies flowers fury goddess gods golden grace Greece grief hair hand head heart heaven heavenly Hercules Hermès Hippomenes honour immortal infernal regions island Jove Juno Jupiter king length light limbs maid Medea mighty Minos monster mortal Mount mountain mournful name given Neptune nymph o'er Oracle Pentheus Perseus Phocis Phoebus plain Pluto press'd Procris Psyche purple Pythian games queen rage rising rocks round sacred serpent shade shore sighs sight sisters skies soft soul stars steeds stood STORY streams Styx tears thee Theseus Thessaly thou Tiresias TRANSFORMATION tree trembling turn'd Venus view'd virgin waters waves wind wings woods wound wretched youth
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Page 192 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page xi - On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes. — With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of Chance below ; And now and then a .sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Page 219 - Than Orient shells, that on the shores are seen; Than apples fairer, when the boughs they lade; Pleasing as winter suns or summer shade ; More grateful to the sight than goodly plains; And...
Page 10 - Not long before, but in a luckless hour, Some legates, sent from the Molossian state, Were on a peaceful errand come to treat ; Of these he murders one, he boils the flesh, And lays the mangled morsels in a dish ; Some part he roasts ; then serves it up so drest, And bids me welcome to this human feast.
Page 27 - A crown of pine upon his head he wore, And thus began her pity to implore ; But ere he thus began, she took her flight So swift, she was already out of sight: Nor...
Page 26 - His flying hat was fasten'd on his head ; Wings on his heels were hung, and in his hand He holds the virtue of the snaky wand ; The liquid air his moving pinions wound, And, in the moment, shoot him on the ground. Before he came in sight, the crafty god His wings...
Page 133 - I see the right, and I approve it too ; Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.
Page 175 - One goose they had ('twas all they could allow), A wakeful sentry, and on duty now, Whom to the Gods for sacrifice they vow : Her, with malicious zeal, the couple view'd; She ran for life, and limping they...
Page 20 - Mine is the' invention of the charming lyre ; Sweet notes and heavenly numbers I inspire. Sure is my bow, unerring is my dart; But ah ! more deadly his who pierced my heart. Medicine is mine ; what herbs and simples grow In fields and forests, all their powers I know; And am the great physician call'd below. Alas, that fields and forests can afford No remedies to heal their lovesick lord ! To cure the pains of love no plant avails; And his own physic the physician fails.
Page 35 - And all the waste of heaven before 'em lay. They spring together out, and swiftly bear The flying youth through clouds and yielding air ; With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind, And leave the breezes of the morn behind. The youth was light, nor...