Kottabos, Ed. by R.Y. Tyrrell (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...his wrinkled front, And now--instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries--He capers nimbly in a ladyJs chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Shakespeare. xAiND let me the canakin clink, clink; Qcs And let the canakin clink; A soldier's a man; A life's but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink. Shakespeare. (a Love Song By Our Own Classic Bard.) tH, sweet Aglaia The winds fleet by us, Blithe sons of Maia, O'er the looming lias; Where the bleak Mastodon In his starry vigils Grey flowers hath trod on, And the sounding strigils Of bards Boeotian In Thessalian numbers Have startled Ocean From ideal slumbers, --Where we, my Aglaia, in smoothed air Bask upon honeydew, and read Lothair: O white Aglaia Ah, dim Aglaia When the purple even, Like a jewell'd Ayah, Comes to hush the heaven To lulling fancies Of the creamy Condor, O'er empyreal pansies We shall wander, wander; While the lithe Osiris With his troop of blisses Shall for aye inspire us To a morn of kisses; And still-wild Astarte through dizzying dew Shall languidly our pearled sobs renew: O red Aglaia J-T. t #forb Solar Ifety. A CONTRIBUTION TO COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY. Dedicated, without permission, to the Rev. G. W. Cox, M.A.) tVERY singular tradition, possibly due to the influence of classical Paganism in the course of study, still preserves, in the Oxford of the nineteenth century, the evident traces of that primeval Nature-worship whereby the earliest parents of the Aryan race marked their observance of the phenomena of the heavens. As so often occurs, the myth has assumed a highly anthropomorphic and concrete form, has gradually been incrusted with the deposits of later ages, and has been given a historical, or rather a biographical dress, .