The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into English Verse by J. Conington ... Third Edition |
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The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into English Verse by J. Conington ... Third ... Virgil Visualização integral - 1870 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Acestes Æneas altars Anchises arms Ascanius Ausonian band battle's bear behold beneath bids blood brave breast breath brow chief Chimæra comrades coursers crew cries crown dame Dardan dart dead death deep Dido dread E'en earth Eneas Eryx eyes fair falchion fame fate father Faunus fear fierce fight fire flame fleet flies flood gallant gate Gods gold gore hand head heart heaven host Ilium's Iulus javelin Jove Jove's Juno Juturna king land Latin Latium's loud Messapus Mezentius mighty Mnestheus neath night o'er once Pallas Phoebus Phrygian plain Priam Priam's pride proud Public School Latin queen race round Rutule School Latin Primer Sergestus shade shield shore side sire skies slain soul spear stand steed steel stood sword Tarchon tears Teucrian thee thou throne Tiber tide tower town train Trojan Troy Troy's Turnus walls warrior wave wind wood youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 206 - Know first, the heaven, the earth, the main, The moon's pale orb, the starry train, Are nourished by a soul, A bright intelligence, whose flame Glows in each member of the frame And stirs the mighty whole.
Página 186 - Seething and swollen with turbid mud, And into dark Cocytus pours The burden of its oozy stores. Grim, squalid, foul, with aspect dire, His eye-balls each a globe of fire. The watery passage Charon keeps, Sole warden of those murky deeps: A sordid mantle round him thrown Girds breast and shoulder like a zone. He plies the pole with dexterous ease, Or sets the sail to catch the breeze, Ferrying the legions of the dead In bark of dusky iron-red, Now marked with age ; but heavenly powers Have fresher,...
Página 13 - Nay, Juno's self, whose wild alarms Set ocean, earth, and heaven in arms, Shall change for smiles her moody frown, And vie with me in zeal to crown Rome's sons, the nation of the gown. So stands my will. There comes a day, While Rome's great ages hold their way, When old Assaracus's sons Shall quit them on the myrmidons, O'er Phthia and Mycenae reign, And humble Argos to their chain.
Página 185 - ... portals hold their lair Wild Sorrow and avenging Care ; And pale Diseases cluster there, And pleasureless Decay, Foul Penury, and Fears that kill, And Hunger, counsellor of ill, A ghastly presence they : Suffering and Death the threshold keep, And with them Death's blood-brother, Sleep...
Página 44 - ... and hiss for ire. We fly distraught: unswerving they Toward Laocoon hold their way; First round his two young sons they wreathe, And grind their limbs with savage teeth: Then, as with arms he comes to aid, The wretched father they invade And twine in giant folds: twice round His stalwart waist their spires are wound, Twice round his neck, while over all Their heads and crests tower high and tall. He strains his strength their knots to tear, While gore and slime his fillets smear, And to the unregardful...
Página 19 - She turned, and flashed upon their view Her stately neck's purpureal hue ; Ambrosial tresses round her head A more than earthly fragrance shed : Her falling robe her footprints swept, And showed the goddess as she stept.
Página 208 - Our progeny to furnish forth : My tongue shall name each soul of worth; And show you of your fate. See you yon gallant youth advance Leaning upon a headless lance? He next in upper air holds place, First offspring of the Italian race Commixed with ours, your latest child By Alban name of Silvius styled, Whom to your...
Página 129 - Takes up the Dardan sword and bares—• Sad gift, for different uses meant. She eyed the robes with wistful look, And pausing, thought awhile and wept; Then pressed her to the couch and spoke Her last, good-night or ere she slept. ' Sweet relics of a time of love, When fate and heaven were kind, Receive my life-blood, and remove These torments of the mind. My life is lived, and I have played The part that Fortune gave, And now I pass, a queenly shade, Majestic to the grave. A glorious city I have...
Página 184 - Night and grisly Silence reign, Hoar Chaos, awful Phlegethon, What ear has heard let tongue make known : Vouchsafe your sanction, nor forbid To utter things in darkness hid. Along the illimitable shade Darkling and lone their way they made, Through the vast kingdom of the dead, An empty void, though tenanted : So travellers in a forest move With but the uncertain moon above, Beneath her niggard light, When Jupiter has hid from view The heaven, and Nature's every hue Is lost in blinding night. At...
Página 192 - The life of each intent to learn And what the cause that wrought them woe. Next comes their portion in the gloom Who guiltless sent themselves to doom, And all for loathing of the day In madness threw their lives away...