 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Oracles, Greek - 1883 - 250 pages
...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...he spoke to Dante of their Italy in the underworld. 2 Surely there is something more than a mere poetic fervour in the lines which describe the love which... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Literature - 1883 - 242 pages
...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...he spoke to Dante of their Italy in the underworld. 2 Surely there is something more than a mere poetic fervour in the lines which describe the love which... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Oracles, Greek - 1883 - 244 pages
...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.2 Surely there is something more than a mere poetic fervour in the lines which describe... | |
 | Virgil - Epic poetry, Latin - 1891 - 194 pages
...Cammilla, Eurialo e Niso e Turno di ferute. Mr. Myers, in the paper already cited (Introd. p. xii), infers that in Camilla, ' whose name leapt first of...and huntress maiden unquestionably is, it is not to be compared in force or pathos with that of Dido : and if Virgil's own ideal is not enshrined in the... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Literature, Modern - 1921 - 602 pages
...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.1 Surely there is something more than a mere poetic fervour in the lines which describe... | |
 | University of California (1868-1952) - English literature - 1928 - 508 pages
...traditional Bradamante. It is a temptation to see in her some traits of the Camilla "whose name first leaped to Virgil's lips as he spoke to Dante of their Italy in the underworld." (Myers, Classical Essays, p. 129.) Spenser remembered Camilla with Dante's admiration and in his roll-call... | |
 | Julia Celeste Turner - Authors, English - 1928 - 460 pages
...traditional Bradamante. It is a temptation to see in her some traits of the Camilla "whose name first leaped to Virgil's lips as he spoke to Dante of their Italy in the underworld." (Myers, Classical Essays, p. 129.) Spenser remembered Camilla with Dante's admiration and in his roll-call... | |
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... 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... 