This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1832. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SONG OF FAIRIES ROBBING AN ORCHARD. FROM SOME LATIN VERSES IN THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMA OP " AMYNTAS, OR THE IMPOSSIBLE DOWRY." We the Fairies, blithe and antic, Of dimensions not gigantic, Though the moonshine mostly keep us, Oft in orchards frisk and peep us. Nos beata Fauni proles, Quibus non est magna moles, Quamvis Lunam incolamus, Hortos saepe frequentamus. Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples. When to bed the world are bobbing, Then's the time for orchard robbing; Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling, Were it not for stealing, stealing. Furto cuncta magis bella, Furto dulcior puella, Furto omnia decora, Furto poma dulciora. Cum mortales lecto jacent, Nobis poma noctu placent; Illa tamen sunt ingrata, Nisi furto sint parata. PLATO'S ARCHETYPAL MAN. ACCORDING TO THE IDEA OF IT ENTERTAINED BY ARISTOTLE. FROM THE LATIN OF MILTON. Say, guardian goddesses of woods, Aspects, felt in solitudes; And Memory, at whose blessed knee The Nine, which thy dear daughters be, Learnt of the majestic past; And thou, that in some antre vast Leaning afar off dost lie, Otiose Eternity, Dicite, sacrorum presides nemorum dea?; Tuque, O noveni perbeata numinis Memoria mater, quaeque in immenso procul Antro recumbis, otiosa iEternitas,* * "This," says Warton, "is a sublime personification of Eternity, and there is a great reach of imagination in one of the conceptions which follows, that the original archetype of man may be a huge giant, stalking in some remote, unknown region of the earth, and lifting his head so high as to be dreaded by the gods, &c."--Pray let the learned reader also admire the line beginning " Tamen seorsus" --the word "stringitur"--the passage about sitting among...
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