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The Paradise of Birds by William John Courthope (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Colle sub Elysio nigra nemus ilice frondens, Udaque perpetuo gramine terra, viret. Si qua fides dubiis volucrum locus ille piarum Dicitur, obscense qua prohibentur aves. ?Ovid, Amorum, L. ii. 6, 49. Ayi fir. pv Aioicii) raam figoroi, av'iei; iixiiviiooi, rbv vovv roTg aSavdroi; 'fi/J-'i.i, r0?; andiiv iovai, roT; alQieloi;, rofgiv ayjjgy;, nT; at i axovsavTi; irdvra iru.e ripi (f-jitiv olavuv, yiveaiv Ti Qiuv, mTa/Auv r 'Eoi/3oi( ri Xi/oy; ri, iiSore; oeQZi; iraf ifiov Hgotjlxii Jikaiiv i/Vjjre To Xoiirov. ? Aristophanes, Aves, 685. chapter{Section 4THE PARADISE OF BIRDS. Enter as Prologue, Nightingale. Nightingale. Kind gentlemen, and ladies dear, To a poor nightingale give ear. The poet bids me fly to you, His audience fit (since doubtless few), And introduce my bill of fare For the entertainment we prepare. So, if you choose to taste the same, And feel disgust'we're free from blame. A And first I say that, by your grace, We mean to represent a place To human sailors (save alone To Fancy and her crew) unknown; Not yet subjected to the reign Of Science, tyrant and profane, ? The would-be queen, and upstart thief, Who steals the lands of old Belief? But unexplored (thank Heaven ) and free To Wonder and to Poetry. Strange things in this strange place you'll view; Conclude not therefore they're untrue. Fancy of all men takes precedence In travel, ?so she should in credence: For once 'twas fashion to traduce, But now you all believe in, Bruce. Besides, in this our moral age, Bards have so serious grown and sage, (Not to say dull), and all, forsooth, Are so well paid for preaching Truth, You might as soon suspect pretension In priests, as poets of Invention. Know, too, beforehand, that we birds Shall speak with...

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Paradise of Birds
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William John Courthope
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English
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2009
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