Virgil's ÆneidP. F. Collier & Son, 1909 - 432 páginas |
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... sight and hearing . Those episodes of Homer which were proper for the stage , the poets amplified each into an action ; out of his limbs they form'd their bodies ; what he had contracted , they en- larg'd ; out of one Hercules were made ...
... sight and hearing . Those episodes of Homer which were proper for the stage , the poets amplified each into an action ; out of his limbs they form'd their bodies ; what he had contracted , they en- larg'd ; out of one Hercules were made ...
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... sight , is , that he has borrow'd so many things from Homer , Apollonius Rhodius , and others who preceded him . But in the first place , if invention is to be taken in so strict a sense , that the matter of a poem must be wholly new ...
... sight , is , that he has borrow'd so many things from Homer , Apollonius Rhodius , and others who preceded him . But in the first place , if invention is to be taken in so strict a sense , that the matter of a poem must be wholly new ...
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... sight for a plagiary , and cry : " This I read before in Virgil , in a better language , and in better verse . This is like Merry Andrew on the low rope , copying lubberly the same tricks which his master is so dext'rously performing on ...
... sight for a plagiary , and cry : " This I read before in Virgil , in a better language , and in better verse . This is like Merry Andrew on the low rope , copying lubberly the same tricks which his master is so dext'rously performing on ...
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... sight so unpleasing to him . The word rejicit , I know , will admit of both senses ; but Jupiter having confess'd that he could not alter fate , and being griev'd he could not , in consideration of Hercules , it seems to me that he ...
... sight so unpleasing to him . The word rejicit , I know , will admit of both senses ; but Jupiter having confess'd that he could not alter fate , and being griev'd he could not , in consideration of Hercules , it seems to me that he ...
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... sight . I will not ex- cuse , but justify myself for one pretended crime , with which I am liable to be charg'd by false critics , not only in this translation , but in many of my original poems - that I Latin- ize too much . ' T is ...
... sight . I will not ex- cuse , but justify myself for one pretended crime , with which I am liable to be charg'd by false critics , not only in this translation , but in many of my original poems - that I Latin- ize too much . ' T is ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Æneas Æneid Æneis altars Anchises arms Ascanius Ausonian bear behold betwixt blood breast call'd Carthage clouds command coursers Creüsa cries crown'd dare dart death descends design'd Dido Eneas Ev'n ev'ry eyes fame fatal fate father Faunus fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames flies flood foes forc'd force friends fun'ral fury goddess gods Grecian ground hand haste head heav'n hero holy honor Italy Jove Juno Jupiter Juturna king land Latian Latium Lausus Messapus Mezentius mighty mind mix'd Mnestheus night o'er Pallas pass'd peace Phrygian pierc'd pious plain pleas'd poem poet pow'r pray'rs Priam prince promis'd queen race rage rais'd resolv'd rest rising rites Rutulian sacred seiz'd shades shield shining shore sight Simoïs sire skies slain soul sound spear steeds stood sword Tarchon thee thou thrice thro tow'rs town trembling Trojan troops Troy Turnus Tuscan Tyrian unhappy Virgil vows wand'ring winds wood wound youth
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Página 55 - I have long had by me the materials of an English Prosodia, containing all the mechanical rules of versification, wherein I have treated, with some exactness, of the feet, the quantities, and the pauses.
Página 111 - ... a flood of fire by wind is borne, Crackling it rolls, and mows the standing corn ; Or deluges, descending on the plains, Sweep o'er the yellow year, destroy the pains Of...
Página 36 - Love has nothing of his own ; he borrows all from a greater master in his own profession, and, which is worse, improves nothing which he finds. Nature fails him, and being forced to his old shift, he has recourse to witticism. This passes indeed with his soft admirers, and gives him the preference to Virgil in their esteem.
Página 108 - When (dreadful to behold) from sea we spied Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. Their flaming crests above the waves they show; Their bellies seem to burn the seas below; Their speckled tails advance to steer their course, And on the sounding shore the flying billows force.
Página 365 - T is all that he can give, or we demand. Joy is no more; but I would gladly go, To greet my Pallas with such news below.
Página 239 - His son, or one of his illustrious name? How like the former, and almost the same! Observe the crowds that compass him around; All gaze, and all admire, and raise a shouting sound: But hov'ring mists around his brows are spread, And night, with sable shades, involves his head.
Página 218 - Obscure they went thro' dreary shades, that led Along the waste dominions of the dead. Thus wander travelers in woods by night, By the moon's doubtful and malignant light, When Jove in dusky clouds involves the skies, And the faint crescent shoots by fits before their eyes.
Página 64 - I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age.
Página 79 - Within a long recess there lies a bay: An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride: Broke by the jutting land, on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide...
Página 249 - Despite not then, that in our hands we bear These holy boughs, and sue with words of pray'r. Fate and the gods, by their supreme command, Have doom'd our ships to seek the Latian land. To these abodes our fleet Apollo sends; Here Dardanus was born, and hither tends; Where Tuscan Tiber rolls with rapid force, And where Numicus opes his holy source.