The Works of Apuleius: Containing the Metamorphoses, Or Golden Ass, the God of Socrates, The Florida and His Defence, Or a Discourse on Magic; a New Translation, to which are Added a Metrical Version of Cupid and Psyche and Mrs Tighe's Psyche, a Poem in Six CantosH.G. Bohn, 1853 - 533 pages |
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Page 456 - The wide-spread waste no gentle fountain cheers, One barren face the dreary prospect wears; Nought through the vast horizon meets her eye To calm the dismal tumult of her fears, No trace of human habitation nigh, A sandy wild beneath, above a threatening sky.
Page 226 - Paphian Venus; the arrow-bearing Cretans, Diana Dictynna; the three-tongued Sicilians, Stygian Proserpine; and the Eleusinians, the ancient Goddess Ceres. Some call me Juno, others Bellona, others Hecate, and others Rhamnusia.
Page 514 - ... Enchanting tales of love, and tenderness, and joy. Too faithful heart! thou never canst retrieve Thy withered hopes: conceal the cruel pain! O'er thy lost treasure still in silence grieve ; But never to the unfeeling ear complain: From fruitless struggles dearly bought refrain ! Submit at once—the bitter task resign, Nor watch and fan the expiring flame in vain; Patience, consoling maid, may yet be thine, Go seek her quiet cell, and hear her voice divine!
Page 279 - The man entranced would view the deathful scene. These drugs, so friendly to the joys of life, Bright Helen learn'd from Thone's imperial wife; Who sway'd the sceptre where prolific Nile With various simples clothes the fatten'd soil.
Page 455 - Round his fair neck, as clinging with delight, Each golden curl resplendently appears, Or shades his darker brow, which grace majestic wears. Or o'er his guileless front the ringlets bright Their rays of sunny lustre seem to throw, That front than polished ivory more white! His blooming cheeks with deeper blushes glow Than roses...
Page 463 - His wings alone the fiercer flame has spared ; From him ambition turns his scornful eyes, And avarice, slave to gold, a generous lord denies. But chief Inconstancy his power destroys ; To mock his lovely form, an idle train With magic skill she dressed in transient toys, By these the selfish votaries she can gain Whom Love's more simple bands could ne'er detain. Ah ! how shall Psyche through such mortal foes The fated end of all her toils attain? Sadly she ponders o'er her hopeless woes, Till on...
Page 305 - Apuleius, who was an initiate in the Mysteries of Isis, says: "By no peril will I ever be compelled to disclose to the uninitiated the things that I have had intrusted to me on condition of silence.
Page 455 - The fatal lamp—He starts—and suddenly Tremendous thunders echo through the halls, While ruin's hideous crash bursts o'er the affrighted walls.
Page 459 - No suppliant tears her vengeance shall abate Till thou hast raised an altar to her power, Where perfect happiness, in lonely state, Has fixed her temple in secluded bower, By foot impure of man untrodden to this hour ! " And on the altar must thou place an urn Filled from immortal Beauty's sacred spring, Which foul deformity to grace can turn, And back to fond affection's eyes can bring The charms which fleeting fled on transient wing ; Snatched from the rugged steep where first they rise, Dark rocks...
Page 419 - Her mantle o'er them Darkness throws, On the UNKNOWN soft languors creep, Who leaves his false one to repose, And sinks into the arms of sleep. Now trembling, now distracted ; bold, And now irresolute she seems ; The blue lamp glimmers in her hold, And in her hand the dagger gleams.