 | John Platts - 1825 - 1006 pages
...PHILLIPS'S TRANSLATION. No less beautiful is the hymn to Venus, of which the following is an extract : " Oh Venus, beauty of the skies, To whom a thousand temples...false in gentle smiles, Full of love-perplexing wiles ; Oh, goddess ! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. " If ever thou hast kindly... | |
 | 1836 - 1118 pages
...its genuine and natural beauty, without any foieign or affected ornaments. A HYMN TO VENUS. О VIM- beauty of the skies. To whom a thousand temples rise,...false in gentle smiles, Full of love-perplexing wiles ; О goddess ! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of luve. If ever tfaou hast kindly... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...skies, To whom a thousand temples rile, Gaily false in gentle smiles, \ Full of love-perplexing wiles; O of weekly preparations, and such limited godliness, lead people of ordinary capacities into great (tone in soft distress preferr'd, Propitious to my tuneful vow, 0 gentle goddess! hear me DOW, Descend,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...see it in its genuine and natural beauty, without any foreign or affected ornaments. A HYMN TO VENUS. taste of the rabble, but of persons of the greatest politeness, which has established it. If the Ita lovf-perplexing wiles ; O goddpss! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. If ever... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pages
...wretch returns, And, as he goes, the transient vision mourn*. A HYMN TO VENUS. ntOM THE ORKKK Or SAPPHO. uiles, And meets me at night with complacence and...her cheeks the rose loses its hue, Her wit and goo O, goddess ! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. If ever thou hast kindly heard... | |
 | 1851 - 794 pages
...amorous delights. ^\ e now subjoin, first Mr. Philips' translation, and next our own. HYMN TO VENUS. O Venus, beauty of the skies, To whom a thousand temples...false in gentle smiles, Full of love-perplexing wiles ; O Goddess ! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. If ever thou hast kindly beard... | |
 | Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles James Blomfield - 1851 - 414 pages
...'flicsts ffr^ivtoi, irrlgvyxs f&tlMnatt Hunvec Smarts «<// M/H'.V u&tXOVTO' Tb * a, <rrt y M" TC Oh, Venus ! beauty of the skies, To whom a thousand temples...false in gentle smiles, Full of love-perplexing wiles : Oh, goddess ! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. If ever thou hast kindly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1853 - 544 pages
...skies, To whom a thousand temples rise, Gaily false in gentle smiles, Full of love-perplexing wiles ; O goddess ! from my heart remove The wasting cares and...hast kindly heard A song in soft distress preferr'd, • Ambrose Phillips.— The author of the Essay on the Writings of Pop* thinks both this and Phillips's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...And, as he goes, the transient vision mourns. A HYMN TO VENUS. FROM THE CHEEK OF SAPPHO. O VEÍÍUS, Beauty of the skies, To whom a thousand temples rise,...false in gentle smiles, Full of love-perplexing wiles, О goddess ! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. If ever thou hast kindly heard... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - 946 pages
...away." No less beautiful is the Hymn to Venus, of which the following is an extract : •• О Venue, beauty of the skies, To whom a thousand temples rise. Gaily false in gentle smiles, Full of love perplexing wiles ; Ob, goddess! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. If ever... | |
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O VENUS, beauty of the skies, To whom a thousand temples rise, Gaily false in gentle smiles, Full of love-perplexing wiles ; O goddess ! from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. 
