Virgil's ÆneidP. F. Collier & Son, 1909 - 432 páginas |
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... Born Oct. 15 , B. C. 70 , the son of a small farmer near Mantua in Northern Italy , he was educated at Cremona , Milan , and Rome . Probably as a result of the turmoil of the Civil Wars , Virgil seems to have returned to his native ...
... Born Oct. 15 , B. C. 70 , the son of a small farmer near Mantua in Northern Italy , he was educated at Cremona , Milan , and Rome . Probably as a result of the turmoil of the Civil Wars , Virgil seems to have returned to his native ...
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... born ; tho ' at the same time he confess'd freely , that if he could have chosen his place of birth , it should have been at Venice ; which , for many reasons , I dislike , and am better pleas'd to have been born an Englishman . But ...
... born ; tho ' at the same time he confess'd freely , that if he could have chosen his place of birth , it should have been at Venice ; which , for many reasons , I dislike , and am better pleas'd to have been born an Englishman . But ...
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... born subject , as I am ; tho ' such things , perhaps , as no Dutch commentator could , and I am sure no French- man durst . I have already told your Lordship my opinion of Virgil , that he was no arbitrary man . Oblig'd he was to his ...
... born subject , as I am ; tho ' such things , perhaps , as no Dutch commentator could , and I am sure no French- man durst . I have already told your Lordship my opinion of Virgil , that he was no arbitrary man . Oblig'd he was to his ...
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... born a father of his country . Æneas , tho ' he married the heiress of the crown , yet claim'd no title to it during the life of his father - in - law . Pater arma Latinus habeto , & c . , are Virgil's words . As for himself , he was ...
... born a father of his country . Æneas , tho ' he married the heiress of the crown , yet claim'd no title to it during the life of his father - in - law . Pater arma Latinus habeto , & c . , are Virgil's words . As for himself , he was ...
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... born , as the astrologers will tell us out of Virgil , ( who was well vers'd in the Chaldæan mysteries , ) under the favorable influence of Jupiter , Venus , and the Sun. " But I insist not on this , because I know you believe not in ...
... born , as the astrologers will tell us out of Virgil , ( who was well vers'd in the Chaldæan mysteries , ) under the favorable influence of Jupiter , Venus , and the Sun. " But I insist not on this , because I know you believe not in ...
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Æneas Æneid Æneis altars Anchises arms Ascanius Ausonian bear behold betwixt blood breast call'd Carthage chief command coursers Creüsa cries crown'd dare dart death descends design'd Dido 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 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 Segrais 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 walls wand'ring winds wood wound youth
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Página 57 - Hill: Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full. And there are yet fewer who can find the reason of that sweetness. I have given it to some of my friends in conversation, and they have
Página 82 - ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands; Then heaves them off the shoals. Where'er he guides His finny coursers and in triumph rides, The waves unruffle and the sea subsides. As, when in tumults rise th' ignoble crowd, Mad are their motions, and their tongues are loud; And stones and brands in
Página 145 - Where proud Pelorus opes a wider way, Tack to the larboard, and stand off to sea: Veer starboard sea and land. Th' Italian shore And fair Sicilia's coast were one, before An earthquake caus'd the flaw: the roaring tides The passage broke that land from land divides; And where the lands retir'd, the rushing ocean rides.
Página 62 - les petits esprits; such things as are our upper-gallery audience in a playhouse, who like nothing but the husk and rind of wit; prefer a quibble, a conceit, an epigram, before solid sense and elegant expression; these are mob readers. If Virgil and Martial stood for Parliamentmen, we know already who would carry it. But,
Página 3 - THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER A HEROIC poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform. The design of ' it is to form the mind to heroic virtue by example. 'Tis
Página 62 - they make the greatest appearance in the field, and cry the loudest, the best on't is, they are but a sort of French Huguenots, or Dutch boors, brought over in herds, but not naturaliz'd; who have not land of two pounds per annum in Parnassus, and therefore are not
Página 151 - ¿Etna join'd. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery springs that boil below.
Página 11 - for a godly king and a Gothic conqueror;" and Chapelain would take it ill that his Maid should be refus'da place with Helen and Lavinia. Spenser has a better plea for his Fairy Queen, had his action been finish'd, or had been one; and Milton, if the Devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam; if the
Página 39 - 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. But let them like for themselves, and not prescribe to others; for our author needs not their admiration. The motives that
Página 229 - Tis here, in different paths, the way divides; The right to Pluto's golden palace guides; The left to that unhappy region tends, Which to the depth of Tartarus descends; The seat of night profound, and punish'd fiends." Then thus Dei'phobus: "O sacred maid, Forbear to chide, and be your will