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• Naiadas Satyris caneret Fontanus amatas, 35 clauderet imparibus uerba Capella modis, cumque forent alii, quorum mihi cuncta referre nomina longa mora est, carmina uulgus habet, essent et iuuenes quorum, quod inedita cura est, appellandorum nil mihi iuris adest 40 The Last Poems of Ovid
• The naiads, nymphs, divine, have as their progeny Sileni, who are much more like myself, I take it, than like you. Symposium
• It must be entertaining to hear the peculiar phraseology and observe the humorous vulgarities of these _naiades_, if one could do so The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
• Here and there a gentleman was teaching a lady to swim, with his arms round her; here and there a wild nereid was splashing another; a young Jew pursued a flight of naiads with a section of dead eel in his hand. Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
• 'There are naiads, nymphs, nixes, kelpies - loreleis, selkies, sirens - though the last two prefer the sea. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
• From the mobile start line north of Rough Holme, Naiad got away well in the light south-westerly airs and reached the windward mark at Claife with a narrow lead.
• 3 And all the troop of lightfoot naiads lightfoot > light-footed naiads > (Or naiades: nymphs of fresh water) 4 Flock all about to see her lovely face: The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
• The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed? The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
• The ancient mythology here seems revived; the naiades are placed on the borders of rivers, the nymphs in woods worthy of them, the tombs beneath Elysian shades, and the statue of Esculapius in the middle of an isle, while that of Venus appears to rise out of the waters: Ovid and Virgil might walk in this enchanting spot, and still believe themselves in the Augustan age. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
• The treatment pools contained either Aeshna naiads or E. perezi tadpoles; see Figure 1.