 | John Mapletoft - 1707 - 308 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1028 pages
...offers her LooKING-GLASS to VENUS. Taken from an Epigram of PLATo. "TTENUS, take my votive glafs ; * Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I fliall be, Venus, let me never fee. CLOE« jEA'LiOU St. I. TPORBEAR to afk me, why I weep; -*• Vext... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 480 pages
...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 ; What from this day I fhall be, Venus, let me never fee. •f- Taken from an epigram of Plato. See Rambler, Number 143. CLOB... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...OFFERS HER LOOKING- GLASS TO VENUS. TAKEN FROM AN EPIGRAM OF PLATO.. "TTENUS, take my votive glafs ; Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I fhall be, Venus, let me never fee. CLOE JEALOUS; I. T^ORBEAR to aflc me, why I weep -t. -*• Vext... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...*°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... | |
 | 1821 - 690 pages
...Dante and Petrarch, either direct or unintentional. As not every instance of similitude, therefore, can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatized as plagiarism. The introduction of a noble sentiment, or borrowed ornament, may sometimes... | |
 | 1797 - 454 pages
...when nigh; I with thee 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 his own, But borrows from his neighbour's... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
