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Caught by the image of his beauteous face,
He loves th' unbody'd form: a substance thinks
The shadow:——
Pub. 1807, for the Author.
THE
METAMORPHOSES
OF
Publius Ovidius Naso
IN
English Blank Verse
VOL. 1.
London 1807. Printed for the Author; & Sold by John Hatchard, Bookseller toHer Majesty. Piccadilly; H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row & James Asperne Cornhill.
TO
The Patronage
OF
THE RIGHT HONORABLE
WILLIAM,
EARL OF LONSDALE,
KNIGHT
OF THE
MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER,
&c. &c. &c.
THE TRANSLATOR CONFIDES HIS ATTEMPT TO RENDERTHE BEAUTIES OF OVID MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ENGLISHREADERS, AND TO CHASTEN THE PRURIENCE OF HISIDEAS AND HIS LANGUAGE, SO AS TO FIT HIS WRITINGSFOR MORE GENERAL PERUSAL.
Bailey & Macdonald, Printers,
3, Harris's Place, Pantheon, Oxford-Street.
Table of Contents
(Added by transcriber.)
Volume I
The First Book
The Second Book
The Third Book
The Fourth Book
The Fifth Book
The Sixth Book
The Seventh Book
Volume II
The Eighth Book
The Ninth Book
The Tenth Book
The Eleventh Book
The Twelfth Book
The Thirteenth Book
The Fourteenth Book
The Fifteenth Book
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THE
First Book
OF THE
METAMORPHOSES
OF
OVID.
From bodies various form'd, mutative shapes
My Muse would sing:—Celestial powers give aid!
From you those changes sprung,—inspire my pen;
Connect each period of my venturous song
Unsever'd, from old Chaös' rude misrule,
Till now the world beneath Augustus smiles.
While yet nor earth nor sea their place possest,
Nor that cerulean canopy which hangs
O'ershadowing all, each undistinguish'd lay,
And one dea