 | William Maxwell - 1850 - 502 pages
...her discarded mirror in the temple of Venus, saying : (as Prior has turned the Greek into English,) Venus, take my votive glass ; Since I am not what...from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see. Voltaire also has turned this bagatelle into French, in his way : Je le donne a Venus, puisque elle... | |
 | George Burges - 1852 - 552 pages
...mirror of my youth resign ; Since what I am, I will not see ; And what I was, I cannot be. EL SWIFT. Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I...from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see. PRIOR. XCI. JULIAN, PREFECT OF EGYPT. Of three acquaintances the nets for a three-fold hunting receive,... | |
 | Arsène Houssaye - 1852 - 528 pages
...attributed to him, on the mirror which Lais the courtesan dedicated to Venus in her old age ; — " Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I...from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see." Homer does not prove to the Areopagus that poetry possesses republican virtues, that it is based on... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pages
...thy muse display The justice of thy Chloc's sorrow. THE LADY WHO OFFEBS HEB LOOKING-GLASS TO VENUS.* VENUS, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I...from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see. AN ENGLISH PADLOCK. Miss DANAE, when fair and young, (As Horace has divinely sung,) Could not be kept... | |
 | 1854 - 542 pages
...mirror of my youth resign ; Since what I am, I will not see ; And what I was, I cannot be. EL SWIFT. Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was : What from this day I shall he, Venus, let me never see. PHIOK. XCI. JULIAN, PREFECT OF EGYPT. Of three acquaintances the nets... | |
 | Toby (Hogarth's own dog.), William Hogarth (pseud.) - 1854 - 206 pages
...die in holes and coyneys — dogs yun mad-^man has a nobly yemedy than yevenge." 59. FROM THE GREEK. Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this dny I shall be, Venus, let me never see ! 60. CORRECT ANSWER. " Might your name be Smith ":" said a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 428 pages
...TJ; IIa0i); rb Karcmrpov • titel TO'UI UEV bpaaftai OVK t&efai, i}v 6' olri Trapof, ai> Svva/au. Venus take my votive glass, Since I am not what I...so not every imitation ought to be stigmatized as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes... | |
 | Anthologia Graeca, Greek Anthology - 1856 - 116 pages
...sit quamvis, Ariadnen tangere noli, Thesea ne properans quaerere prosiliat. Grotius. PAGE 76, XXVII. Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I...from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see. Prior. PAGE 77, XXX. The Muses seeking for a shrine Whose glories ne'er should cease, Found, as they... | |
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 pages
...norat cursu flammante Cithaeron, Pelion, atqve hirtis Ossa fragosa iugis. к. MD The faded Beauty. Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was : What from this time I shall be, Venus, let me never see. PBIOK (from the Greek). Tonkunst. Seben attjme ber bilbenbe... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1860 - 338 pages
...who died to-day, Such I, alas ! may be to-morrow ; THE LADY WHO OFFERS HER LOOKINGGLASS TO VENUS.i VENUS, take my votive glass ; Since I am not what...from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see. CLOE JEALOUS. FORBEAR to ask me, why I weep ; Yex'd Cloe to her shepherd said ; 'Tis for my two poor... | |
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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. 
