Cupid and Psyche: A LegendFrom the Press of C. Whittingham, 1820 - 105 頁 |
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affright Apuleius arrows assign'd beauty's bosom breast breath bright bring burn call'd Ceres Charon counsel CUPID AND PSYCHE dare daughters dear deity delight desire divine dost durst earth enter'd envy exquisite eyes fair Psyche fate fear fire fix'd flame forc'd gave goddess gods gold golden grace grief hair hand handmaids happy haste heart heaven hell honour horrid husband Jove Juno kiss'd kisses labour lest looking-glass Love's lovers lust maid malice marriage mind mistress mix'd mother Muse night nymphs o'er Paphos Phoebus pity Pluto poem poison'd poor Psyche Portumnus Proserpine Psyche's queen quiver revenge RICHARD BROME rose Salacia says serpent shafts SHAKERLEY MARMION sight sisters soft soul straight Stygian Styx sweet tears Tethis thee Themis thence Thetis thine thither thou thought torch twas Udine unto vast air Venus vex'd voice vow'd wanton Whilst wife wind wings womb wounds wretch Zephyrus
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第 xvii 頁 - Her mantle o'er them Darkness throws, On the UNKNOWN soft languors creep, Who leaves his false one to repose, And sinks into the arms of sleep. Now trembling, now distracted ; bold, And now irresolute she seems ; The blue lamp glimmers in her hold, And in her hand the dagger gleams. Prepar'd to strike she verges near, The blue light glimmering from above, The HIDEOUS SIGHT expects with fear, —And gazes on the GOD OF LOVE...
第 viii 頁 - with sacred verse from this world's dross refined," he says, " I have endeavoured to represent a soul led by divine grace, and her guardian angel (in fervent devotion) through the difficult temptations and assaults of lust, of pride, of heresy, of persecution, and of spiritual dereliction, to a holy and happy departure from...
第 ix 頁 - a great many flowers worth gathering," and said that " a man who has the art of stealing wisely will find his account in reading it.
第 42 頁 - Zelmane brought to an exigent," etc. 65. inevitable prosecution] pursuit admitting no escape. For inevitable, compare S. Marmion, Cupid and Psyche, 1637 (reprint 1820, p. 72) : — "What darkness can protect me? what disguise Hide me from her inevitable eyes? " 68. defeat'st] frustratest. Compare v. i. 65 post. Some— I think unnecessarily — explain by destroyest, comparing such passages as Othello, iv. ii. 160 : "And his unkindness may defeat my life.
第 viii 頁 - Christi, his Incarnation and Nativity, his Flight into Egypt, his Fasting and Temptation, his chief Miracles, his being Sold and Betrayed, his Institution of the Holy Eucharist, his Passion, his Resurrection and Ascension; which were his mighty Testimonies of his Love to the Soul.
第 74 頁 - Her womb, by Juno's help, brought forth a daughter, A child by nature different from all, That laugh'd when she was born, and men did call Her Pleasure, one that does exhilarate Both gods and men, and doth herself dilate Through all societies, chiefly the best, Where there is any triumph, or a feast. She was the author that did first invent All kind of sport, conceits and merriment : And since to all men's humours does incline, Whether that they be sensual or divine.
第 xviii 頁 - Ihe pure and vital stream he breathes, Makes e'en the lamp shine doubly bright, Which its gay flame enamour'd wreathes, And gleams with scintillating light. There loosely strung that bow was hung, Whose twanging cord Immortals fear, And on the floor his quiver flung, Lay stor'd with many an arrow, near. Grasp'd in her sacrilegious hands, She with the arrows play'd, and laugh'd— « The crimson on her finger stands, She's wounded by the poison'd shaft! The red blood riots in her veins, Her feverish...
第 ix 頁 - Those springs of everlasting vigour range, Which make souls drunk with heav'n, which cleanse away All earth from dust, and flesh to spirit change. Wise loyal springs, whose current to no sea Its panting voyage ever steers, but thee.
第 63 頁 - Whom fiery Phlegethon does round enclose, And Styx his waves does nine times interpose. The noise of whips and furies did so fright Poor Psyche's ears, she hasted to the right. That pathway straight, for on each side there grew A grove of mournful cypress and of yew: It is the place of such as happy die. There, as she walked on, did infants cry, Whom cruel death snatch'd from their teats away, And robb'd of sweet life in an evil day.
第 xvii 頁 - And sinks into the arms of Sleep. Now trembling, now distracted; bold, And now irresolute, she seems; The blue lamp glimmers in her hold, And in her hand the dagger gleams. Prepared to strike she verges near, * The blue light glimmering from above, The hideous sight expects with fear — And gazes on the GOD OF LOVE.