 | John Mapletoft - 1707 - 308 pages
...know ye : Alas ! how eafy my Miftake .' I took you for your Likenefs Cblae, M. PR io * . * XCIV> NUS, take my votive Glafs : Since I am not what I was, What from this Day I mail be> Venus, let me never fee ! By the fame. * From the Greek. xcv. T) EL 1ND A has fuch Store of... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 480 pages
...The juftice of thy Cloe's forrow. 1. THE THE LADV WHO OFFERS HER LOOKING-GLASS T o VENU S. f VENUS, take my votive glafs ; Since I am not what I was ;...from this day I fhall be, Venus, let me never fee. •f- Taken from an epigram of Plato. See Rambler, Number 143. CLOB CLOE JEALOUS. I. .FORBEAR to afk... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 478 pages
...The juftice of thy Cloe's forrow. 14 TUB THE LADY WHO. OFFERS HER LOOKING-GLASS TO V EN U S. f VENUS, take my votive glafs ; Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I (hall be, Venus, let me never fee. •f- Taken from an epigram of Plato. See Rambler, Number 145. CLOB... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...Plato. Tr ITatpiti r£ Koirotyrpoi' twtt run fi\v of «<r9*« Ojx ififXi), oin f £v wtp&'ii Venus, take my votive glafs, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I fhall be, Vcnus let me never fee. As not every inftance of fimilitude can be conCdered as a proof of imitation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...difgraced, from an epigram pf Plato. T« Tlatpw T<3 xolrovrpw' i-srei nun plit of a<r6os» o'j»i £ r,v take my votive glafs, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I fliall be, let me never fee. As not every inftance of fimilitude can be confidered as a proof of imitation,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...forrow. i THE THE LADY WHO OFFERS HER LOOKING- GLASS TO VENUS. TAKEN FROM AN EPIGRAM OF PLATO.. "TTENUS, take my votive glafs ; Since I am not what I was ;...Venus, let me never fee. CLOE JEALOUS; I. T^ORBEAR to aflc me, why I weep -t. -*• Vext Cloe to her fliepherd faid ; 'Tis for my two poor ftraggling meep,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...Plato. Ti n^~.~ TO *°Ton;Tfo» iWii TCIT? pit o^xcOai Qux =6iAi , oiE) $ vjv &jap<&-tu ^yja^tai. Vtnus, take my votive glafs, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I lhall be, Venus, let me never fee. As not every inftance of fimijitude can be confidered as a proof... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...himfelfdifgraced.fronj, an epigram of Plato. T? na.;-i'« T; tirtvrrpr Imnttt /ui> Oux tJiAi1, Sin 5' ri Venus, take my votive glafs, Since I am not what I was; What from this day I flull be, Venus let me never fee. As not every in (lance of fimilitude) can be considered as a proof... | |
 | Select epigrams - 1797 - 188 pages
...higher ? THE LADY WHO OFFERS HER LOOKING-GLASS TO VENUS. BY THE SAME. VENUS, take my votive glafr, Since I am not what I was : What from this day I fhall be, Venus, let me never fee *. i FATAL LOVE. BY THE SAME. POOR Hal caught his death, flanding under a fpout, Expecting, till midnight,... | |
 | 1797 - 454 pages
...or without thee die. THE LADY WHO OFFERS HER LOOKING-GLASS TO VENUS. V EN us, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was; What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see. THE CAMELEON. As the Cameleon, who is known To have no colours of... | |
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Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see. 
