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" Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance and hymeneal rite ; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed ; The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute and cithern's silver sound... "
The idyllia, epigrams, and fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with ... - Page 151
by Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 2

John Milton - 1750 - 716 pages
...pomp, and genial feaft delight, And folemn dance, and hymenxal rite ; Along the flreet the new- made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial...youthful dancers in a circle bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found. And in like manner the driving away of the Iheep and oxen from forage, and...
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1756 - 246 pages
...Here facred pomp, and genial feaft delight, And folemn dance, and Hymenaal rite ; 570 Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming...youthful dancers in a circle bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found : Thro' the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row, 575 Stand in their porches,...
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The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Volume 3

Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.) - 1758 - 462 pages
...that, ever, appeared in a tranflator a great deal of troubJe. any language, was written by him in 7k The youthful dancers in a circle bound, To the foft flute, and cittern s filler found : Through the fair Jlreets, the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 5

Homer - 1760 - 314 pages
...this was the imagination of jfgallias Cercyreus, as wft find him cited by EuJJathius. Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming...youthful dancers in a circle bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found ; Thro' the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row, 575 Stand in their porches,...
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The Iliad, Volume 25

Homer - 1773 - 234 pages
...Hymeneal rile ; Along the ftrect the new-made brides are led,With lovelies flaming, to the nuptial-bed : The youthful dancers, in a circle bound To the foft flute and cittern's filver found : Through the fair ftreets, the matrons, in a row, Stand in their porches, and...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 36

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 422 pages
...facred pomp and genial feaft delight, .And folemn dance, ar.d Hymenaeal rite; 570 Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming,...youthful dancers in a circle bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found : Through the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row 575 Stand in their porches,...
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Thelyphthora; or, A treatise on female ruin [by M. Madan].

Martin Madan - 1781 - 422 pages
...was ufual for the parties to call their friends and neighbours together, and to make Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed. POPE. So VIRGIL, Eel. viii. ver. 29. Mspfe novas incide faces ; tibi ducitur uxor. prepare the lights,...
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Tales of the Castle: Or, Stories of Instruction and Delight, Volume 2

Stéphanie Félicité comtesse de Genlis - 1785 - 308 pages
...facred pomp, and genial feaft, delight, " And folemn dance, and hymeneal right. " Along the flreets the new-made brides are led, " With torches flaming...dancers in a circle bound, " To the foft flute and cittern's filver found. " Through the fair flreets the matrons in a row, " Stand in their porches and...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...and genial feaft delight, And fclemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Abng the ftrect the new-made bride; are led, With torches flaming to the nuptial bed;...youthful dancers in a circle bound To the foft flute, aod cittern's fiber found. Pun. that Vida was merely fanciful, when he fuppofcd Virgil endeavouring...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 pages
...ipupii; Here facred pomp; and genial fcaft delighf; And folemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led) With torches flaming)...youthful dancers in a circle bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found. PoPE. that Vida was merely fanciful, when he fuppofed Virgil endeavouring to...
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