Galatea: A Pastoral RomanceBell and Daldy, 1867 - 349 pages |
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amorous appeared Artidoro asked assured banks beauty began bitter Blanca breast cause clear close condition Damon death desire discreet doth earth effect Elicio enamoured enemy Erastro evil existence eyes faith fame favour fear feel Florisa follow force fortune Galatea gave give glory grace grief Grisaldo hand hear heard heart heaven Hence hold honour hope known lady Lauso leave Lenio less light lives lover memory mind moved never night Nisida observe offered parents passed praise present promise raise reach reason received recognised remained remedy replied rest Rosaura satisfaction satisfied seemed seen shepherdess shepherds sighs Silerio sister song soon sorrowful soul sound suffering swains sweet tears Teolinda thee things Thirsis thou thought Timbrio true truth turn verses village virtue voice wish
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Page vi - Nor is it a wonder if he has ever been acknowledged the greatest of poets, who most excelled in that which is the very foundation of poetry. It is the invention that in different degrees distinguishes all great geniuses : the utmost stretch of human study, learning, and industry, which masters everything besides, can never attain to this. It furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it Judgment itself can at best but steal wisely: for Art is only like a prudent steward, that lives on managing...
Page xii - Hence I have no fear that I shall be criticised because some philosophical reasons are interspersed with certain amorous arguments of shepherds, who rarely rise in discourse beyond country affairs, and this, too, with a conj'genial simplicity.
Page 331 - Who is that which all eyes is, From the crown to the feet. Occasionally his own interest without, Is cause of amorous annoyances ? Accustomed is he quarrels to appease, Yet neither goes nor comes, And though possessing eyes so many, Few children doth discover, Of grief bearing the name, Which is accounted mortal, Both good and harm he doth, Love moderates and inflames.
Page 211 - Orfenio diverged to the hermitage of Silerio, with those two charming sisters Nisida and Blanca, having first taken affectionate leave of the venerable Aurelio and of Galatea, Rosaura, and Florisa, as well as Elicio and Erastro, who •would not continue with Galatea, while Aurelio offered, that on their attaining the hamlet he would go incontinently with Elicio and Erastro, to seek Silerio's hermitage, and that he would take something to satisfy the inconvenience, which to entertain lovingly such...
Page 176 - They had not progressed very far when they encountered several shepherds, their acquaintances, for there were Thirsis, Damon, Elicio, Erastro, Arsindo, Francenio, Crisio, Orompo, Daranio, Orfenio, and Marsilio, with all the foremost shepherds of the vicinity, and among them the disenamoured Lenio, with the melancholy Silerio, all of whom had sallied forth for a siesta at the stone fountain, in a shade where the thick boughs and green trees indicated defence against heat.
Page 127 - At this moment sallied forth the rich pastor Daranio, clad as a mountaineer, with a long robe in plaits at the collar, a vest of frieze, a green upper garment hollowed round the neck, his lower attire made of thin linen, azure-coloured buskins, round shoes, his girdle studded, with a cap quartered of the same colour as his vest.
Page 130 - The wedded pair, returning from the temple with the same company which followed them there, went to the chosen spot in the village, where they found the banqueting tables set out, and here Daranio wished to make a public demonstration of his wealth, by giving an entertainment in a generous and sumptuous fete.
Page 334 - Fire bites, and the mouthful Is the damage, and the profit of the masticator, The wounded wight loses no blood, Though he should be well slashed. But if the wound is deep, Its point the hand not hitting, Death to the stricken party doth ensue, And in that death stands life.
Page 44 - While Lenio was singing what we just heard, both Elicio and Erastro, with their wind instruments, came up, in company of the much-to-be-lamented Lisandro, and it seemed to Elicio that the evil which Lenio spoke of, love, as far as it extended with reason, went to show clearly his deception ; and...
Page 2 - Galatea, one without an equal, as shepherdess, born in the same coasts ; and although she had been educated in rustic and pastoral exercises, yet was she so exalted in intelligence that discreet women, brought up in royal palaces and used to the judicious conduct of a court, considered themselves fortunate to resemble her in discretion as well as beauty, by reason of the many and rich gifts with which heaven had adorned Galatea.