P. Vergili Maronis Opera: Virgil with an Introduction and NotesClarendon Press, 1892 |
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... whole narrative ; which is at one time allegorical , at another historical . On the relative date of this and Ecl . ix sce Introd . to ix , p . 133 . Bucolica ( Bovnoλixά ) are poems treating of pastoral subjects . Eclogae ( èλoyaí ...
... whole narrative ; which is at one time allegorical , at another historical . On the relative date of this and Ecl . ix sce Introd . to ix , p . 133 . Bucolica ( Bovnoλixά ) are poems treating of pastoral subjects . Eclogae ( èλoyaí ...
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... whole question of such lengthening of short final syllables in Virgil see Prof. Nettleship's Excursus to Aen . xii . in Conington's edition , showing ( 1 ) that Virgil never allows himself these licences except in arsis ( i . e . in the ...
... whole question of such lengthening of short final syllables in Virgil see Prof. Nettleship's Excursus to Aen . xii . in Conington's edition , showing ( 1 ) that Virgil never allows himself these licences except in arsis ( i . e . in the ...
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... whole farm , than ( with Con . ) to separate the two words , omnia = the whole farm , and pascua = the pastures by the river . 50. graves fetas = ' the pregnant ewes ; ' the two words conveying much the same idea . 52 , 53. flumina nota ...
... whole farm , than ( with Con . ) to separate the two words , omnia = the whole farm , and pascua = the pastures by the river . 50. graves fetas = ' the pregnant ewes ; ' the two words conveying much the same idea . 52 , 53. flumina nota ...
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... whole world . ' 68-70 . ' Shall I ever , on beholding after a long time my native land , and the turf - thatched roof of the humble cottage , my old domain , hereafter see with wonder a few poor ears of corn ? ' post ( 1.70 ) is ...
... whole world . ' 68-70 . ' Shall I ever , on beholding after a long time my native land , and the turf - thatched roof of the humble cottage , my old domain , hereafter see with wonder a few poor ears of corn ? ' post ( 1.70 ) is ...
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... whole the most probable . 34. ' Nor would you repent of having frayed your lip with the reed ; ' cp . Lucr . iv . 588 ( of playing on the pan - pipe ) Unco saepe labro calamos percurrit hiantes . 35. faciebat , ' was ready to do . ' 30 ...
... whole the most probable . 34. ' Nor would you repent of having frayed your lip with the reed ; ' cp . Lucr . iv . 588 ( of playing on the pan - pipe ) Unco saepe labro calamos percurrit hiantes . 35. faciebat , ' was ready to do . ' 30 ...
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Page 338 - But when the warrior dieth, His comrades in the war, With arms reversed and muffled drum, Follow his funeral car ; They show the banners taken, They tell his battles won, And after him lead his masterless steed, While peals the minute gun.
Page 14 - And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
Page 319 - Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 230 - Where now thy might, which all those kings subdued ? No martial myriads muster in thy gate ; No suppliant nations in thy Temple wait ; No prophet bards, thy glittering courts among, Wake the full lyre, and swell the tide of song : But lawless Force, and meagre Want is there, And the quick-darting eye of restless Fear ; While cold Oblivion, 'mid thy ruins laid, Folds his dank wing beneath the ivy shade.
Page 239 - And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 349 - ... at all, it must be sought elsewhere. And, perhaps, if the fancy be permitted, we may imagine that we discern it best in the strange and yearning beauty of the passages which speak of the glorious girlhood of Camilla, the maid unwon; Camilla, whose death a nymph avenges, and whose tale Diana tells; Camilla, whose name leapt first of all to Virgil's lips as he spoke to Dante of their Italy in the underworld.
Page 366 - Glitt'ring lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe and Randver's bane.
Page 135 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Page 117 - Neptune, besides the sway Of every salt flood and each ebbing stream, Took in, by lot 'twixt high and nether Jove, Imperial rule of all the sea-girt Isles...