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Page 10
... OVID, metam. m. 432. [from thr fable or narcissus.] What could, fond youth, this helpless passion move ? What kindled in thee this unpitied love ! Thy own warm blush within the water glows ; With thee the colour'd shadow comes and goes ...
... OVID, metam. m. 432. [from thr fable or narcissus.] What could, fond youth, this helpless passion move ? What kindled in thee this unpitied love ! Thy own warm blush within the water glows ; With thee the colour'd shadow comes and goes ...
Page 117
... Ovid's manner, and may vie with any of those celebrated transformations which are looked upon as the most beautiful parts in that poet's works. Milton never fails of improving his own hints, and bestowing the last finishing touches in ...
... Ovid's manner, and may vie with any of those celebrated transformations which are looked upon as the most beautiful parts in that poet's works. Milton never fails of improving his own hints, and bestowing the last finishing touches in ...
Page 140
... Ovid's account of the universal deluge, the reader may observe with how much judgment he has avoided every thing ... Ovid tells us that there was nothing but eea, and that this sea had no shore to it, he has not set the thought in such a ...
... Ovid's account of the universal deluge, the reader may observe with how much judgment he has avoided every thing ... Ovid tells us that there was nothing but eea, and that this sea had no shore to it, he has not set the thought in such a ...
Page 141
... Ovid. — " How didst thou grieve then, Adam, to behold The end of all thy offspring, end so sad. Depopulation 1 Thee another flood, Of tears and sorrow a flood thee also drown'd, And sunk thee as thy sons ; till gently rear'd By th ...
... Ovid. — " How didst thou grieve then, Adam, to behold The end of all thy offspring, end so sad. Depopulation 1 Thee another flood, Of tears and sorrow a flood thee also drown'd, And sunk thee as thy sons ; till gently rear'd By th ...
Page 166
... OVID. METAM. I. 75S. To hear an open slander, is a curse ; Bat not to find an answer, is a worse. DRYDEH. "May 6, 1712. "Mr. Spectator, " I am sexton of the parish of Covent-garden, and complained to you some time ago, as I was tolling ...
... OVID. METAM. I. 75S. To hear an open slander, is a curse ; Bat not to find an answer, is a worse. DRYDEH. "May 6, 1712. "Mr. Spectator, " I am sexton of the parish of Covent-garden, and complained to you some time ago, as I was tolling ...
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