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Title: The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

Author: Ovid

Translator: J. J. Howard

Release Date: April 27, 2009 [EBook #28621]

Language: English

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_Book 3 p. 105._

[Illustration]

_R. Westall R.A. del^l._ _E. Scriven sculp^t_

_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*

Translated by
J. J. HOWARD.

VOL. 1.

[Illustration]

_London 1807. Printed for the Author; & Sold by John Hatchard,
Bookseller to Her 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 RENDER THE BEAUTIES OF OVID
MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ENGLISH READERS, AND TO CHASTEN THE PRURIENCE OF
HIS IDEAS AND HIS LANGUAGE, SO AS TO FIT HIS WRITINGS FOR MORE
GENERAL PERUSAL.

_Pimlico, Aug. 22, 1807._

_Bailey & Macdonald, Printers,
3, Harris's Place, Pantheon, Oxford-Street._

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 Chaoes' rude misrule,
Till now the world beneath Augustus smiles.

While yet nor ea