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"It is long since I have read any of then; but Virgil and Apulius do, if I mistake not, speak of this power over the elements." "Do you not remember, father," said Rebecca, "some verses of Tibullus, in which he speaketh of a certain enchantress? Some one hath rendered them thus: "Her with charms drawing stars from heaven, I, And turning the course of rivers, did espy.
"It is long since I have read any of then; but Virgil and Apulius do, if I mistake not, speak of this power over the elements." "Do you not remember, father," said Rebecca, "some verses of Tibullus, in which he speaketh of a certain enchantress? Some one hath rendered them thus: "Her with charms drawing stars from heaven, I, And turning the course of rivers, did espy.
He wrote a curious volume on Falconry in India, and a manual of bayonet exercise. He collated a strange volume of African folk-lore. He translated several Brazilian tales. He translated Apulius' "Golden Ass." And he had notes for a book on the Gypsies, on the Greek Anthology, and Ausonius. The Burton bibliography looks like the catalogue of a small library.
Apulius and Lucian transform the hero of their common story into an ass, and in that shape he encounters the most surprising experiences. Voltaire makes an ass play a wonderful part in his "Pucelle."
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