This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...man; The pulse of social life is dead, And all its fonder feelings fled! War too has sullied Nature's charms, For gold provokes the world to arms! And oh! the worst of all its art, I feel it breaks the lover's heart! ODE XXX. 'twas in an airy dream of night, I fancied, that I wing'd my flight On pinions ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...man; The pulse of social life is dead, And all its fonder feelings fled! War too has sullied Nature's charms, For gold provokes the world to arms! And oh! the worst of all its art, I feel it breaks the lover's heart! ODE XXX. 'twas in an airy dream of night, I fancied, that I wing'd my flight On pinions fleeter than the wind, While little Love, whose feet were twin'd (I know not why) with chains of lead, Pursued me as I trembling fled; Pursued--and could I e'er have thought?--Swift as the moment I was caught! What does the wanton Fancy mean By such a strange, illusive scene? I fear she whispers to my breast, That you, my girl, have stol'n my rest; Barnes imagines from this allegory, that our poet married very late in life. I do not perceive any thing in the ode which seems to allude to matrimony, except it be the lead upon the feet of Cupid; and I must confess that I agree in the opinion of Madame Dacier, in her life of the poet, that he was always too fond of pleasure to marry. That though my fancy, for a while, Has hung on many a woman's smile, I soon dissolv'd the passing vow, And ne'er was caught by love till now ODE XXXI. Arm'd with hyacinthine rod, (Arms enough for such a god, ) Cupid bade me wing my pace, And try with him the rapid race. The design of this little fiction is to intimate, that much greater pain attends insensibility than can ever result from the tenderest impressions of love. Longepierre has quoted an ancient epigram (I do not know where he found it), which has some similitude to this ode: Lecto compositus, vix prima silentia noctis Carpebam, et somno lumina victa dabam; Cum me ssevus Amor prensum, sursumque capillis Excitat, et lacerum pervigilare jubet. Tu famulus meus, inquit, ames cum mille puellas, Solus Io, solus, dure..
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