Kisses:: Being a Poetical Translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius. With the Original Latin Text. To which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Writings..Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1812 - 184 pages |
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Page iii
... elegance of his language , as for the sin- gular beauty of his thoughts . Considering , then , that obscurity in which he has so long continued , it is not very wonderful that so few circumstances can be collected with regard to his ...
... elegance of his language , as for the sin- gular beauty of his thoughts . Considering , then , that obscurity in which he has so long continued , it is not very wonderful that so few circumstances can be collected with regard to his ...
Page vi
... elegant little piece . According to Scriverius , our poet comes last in order , whose history we shall resume after having mentioned his sister Isabella Nicolaïa . This lady was an honour to her sex , having a remarkably fine taste for ...
... elegant little piece . According to Scriverius , our poet comes last in order , whose history we shall resume after having mentioned his sister Isabella Nicolaïa . This lady was an honour to her sex , having a remarkably fine taste for ...
Page xv
... elegant poetry . His ge- nius , though extremely fertile , never produced any thing but what was excellent , and that with the greatest ease and almost instantaneously . He is sweet , calm , and at the same time perspicuous , in his ...
... elegant poetry . His ge- nius , though extremely fertile , never produced any thing but what was excellent , and that with the greatest ease and almost instantaneously . He is sweet , calm , and at the same time perspicuous , in his ...
Page xvi
... elegant , and tender and we may be assured , that had his lei- sure permitted him to have undertaken and im- proved himself in epic poetry , he would have excelled in it : -but his muse is somewhat too wanton . " Though the works of ...
... elegant , and tender and we may be assured , that had his lei- sure permitted him to have undertaken and im- proved himself in epic poetry , he would have excelled in it : -but his muse is somewhat too wanton . " Though the works of ...
Page 22
... elegantly concise , and harmonious enough , considering the age in which it was written : I shall therefore give it my readers entire , as a specimen of Mr. Stanley's version of the kisses of Secundus . ' Tis no kiss my fair bestows ...
... elegantly concise , and harmonious enough , considering the age in which it was written : I shall therefore give it my readers entire , as a specimen of Mr. Stanley's version of the kisses of Secundus . ' Tis no kiss my fair bestows ...
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am'rous amorous arms bacio BAISER balmy bard basia BASIUM beauteous beauty beauty's Bishop of Utrecht blest bliss bloom blushing boards Bonefonius bosom breast breath Catullus charms cheek colla cùm Cupid Cypria darts dear delight dominæ DORAT doux Edition elegant EPIG equal this Olympus ev'ry Everardus eyes fair felix juvenis flow'r fond gale glow hæc happy pair happy swain heart hinc Hymettus illa Inque Joannes Secundus Jove joys kiss labellum labra labris lacertis Lesbia lèvres love's maid manu Mechelen meis mihi mistress Muretus ne'er Neæra neck nectar nectar'd Nicolaus nymph o'er thy Olympus strives oscula Ovid poem poet pow'r Propertius puella felix Quæ Qualia quàm quid quis quoque rapture rose semper show'rs Sicani sighs smiles soft soul suaviolum suspiria sweet tender Thaïs thee thine thou thro thy lips tibi Tibullus translated Tunc Venus vermil VIRG Virgil voluptuous wanton youth
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Page 152 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 124 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 4 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Page 48 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume...
Page 100 - LOve in her Sunny Eyes does basking play ; Love walks the pleasant Mazes of her Hair ; Love does on both her Lips for ever stray ; And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there.
Page 152 - Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow, Are of those that April wears. But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee.
Page 53 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes her eager swain ; But feigns a laugh to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Page 26 - L'aura serena che fra verdi fronde Mormorando a ferir nel volto viemme...
Page 38 - Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly ;) But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
Page 66 - Furi, qui me ex versiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est; qui tunc denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis, qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.