Ovid's Epistles: With His Amours |
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Tho ' great Alcæus more fublimely fings , And strikes with bolder Rage the
founding Strings , No less Reņown attends the moving Lyre , Which Cupid tunes ,
and Venus does inspire . To me what Nature has in Charms denyd Is well by
Wit's ...
Tho ' great Alcæus more fublimely fings , And strikes with bolder Rage the
founding Strings , No less Reņown attends the moving Lyre , Which Cupid tunes ,
and Venus does inspire . To me what Nature has in Charms denyd Is well by
Wit's ...
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But ah beware , Sicilian Nymphs ! nor boast That wand'ring Heart which I fo lately
loft ; Nor be with all those tempting Words abusid , Those tempting Words were
all to Sapho us'd , And you that rule Sicilia's happy Plains , Have pity , Venus , on
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But ah beware , Sicilian Nymphs ! nor boast That wand'ring Heart which I fo lately
loft ; Nor be with all those tempting Words abusid , Those tempting Words were
all to Sapho us'd , And you that rule Sicilia's happy Plains , Have pity , Venus , on
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Cupid's light Darts my tender Bosom move , Still is there Cause for Sapho still to
love : So from my Birth the Sisters fix'd my Doom , And gave to Venus all my Life
to come ; Or while my Mase in melting Notes complains , My Heart relents , and ...
Cupid's light Darts my tender Bosom move , Still is there Cause for Sapho still to
love : So from my Birth the Sisters fix'd my Doom , And gave to Venus all my Life
to come ; Or while my Mase in melting Notes complains , My Heart relents , and ...
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Oh when , alas ! fhall more auspicious Gales To these fond Eyes restore thy
welcome Sails ? If you return ah why these long Delays ? Poor Sapho dies while
careless Phaon Rays . O launch thy Bark , nor fear the watry Plain , Venus for
thee ...
Oh when , alas ! fhall more auspicious Gales To these fond Eyes restore thy
welcome Sails ? If you return ah why these long Delays ? Poor Sapho dies while
careless Phaon Rays . O launch thy Bark , nor fear the watry Plain , Venus for
thee ...
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You swore by the Great Ruler of the Flood , The Heav'nly Author of your Royal
Blood ; ( If e'er a God had any thing to do In one so false and so unkind as you )
You swore by Venus , and the fatal Steel Of those proud Darts , which too much I
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You swore by the Great Ruler of the Flood , The Heav'nly Author of your Royal
Blood ; ( If e'er a God had any thing to do In one so false and so unkind as you )
You swore by Venus , and the fatal Steel Of those proud Darts , which too much I
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