The Works of Virgil: Tr. Into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow, with the Latin Text and Order of Construction on the Same Page; and Critical, Historical, Geographical and Classical Notes, from the Best Commentators, Both Ancient and Modern, Beside a Very Great Number of Notes Entirely New. For the Use of Schools, as Well as of Private GentlemenJoseph Davidson, 1792 |
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... Youth , nor know the dear Delights of Children , and Joys of Love ? Think you cold Afhes and the buried Dead regard these your Vows and Promises ? What though no Lovers moved you before when your Sorrows were green , nor here in Libya ...
... Youth , nor know the dear Delights of Children , and Joys of Love ? Think you cold Afhes and the buried Dead regard these your Vows and Promises ? What though no Lovers moved you before when your Sorrows were green , nor here in Libya ...
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... Youth neglect their warlike Ex- NOTE S. very apt Comparison , and agrees almost in everyļto make of thefe Words of his ; but the obvious Circumftance . There is a particular Beauty in Meaning of Virgil is , that , as the Morning - light ...
... Youth neglect their warlike Ex- NOTE S. very apt Comparison , and agrees almost in everyļto make of thefe Words of his ; but the obvious Circumftance . There is a particular Beauty in Meaning of Virgil is , that , as the Morning - light ...
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... Youth iffue through the Gates . The wide Ne broad - pointed Hunting fpears , the Mafilian Horfemen , and a fcented Hounds , pour forth together . Before the Palace - gate the Carick- Nobles wait the Queen lingering in her Alcove Her ...
... Youth iffue through the Gates . The wide Ne broad - pointed Hunting fpears , the Mafilian Horfemen , and a fcented Hounds , pour forth together . Before the Palace - gate the Carick- Nobles wait the Queen lingering in her Alcove Her ...
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... Youth and Beauty , he grew fo weak others tear and hale my Ships from the Docks , and extenuated by old Age , that Life wasa Bur - to fail in Pursuit of him ? den to him , and he would gladly have become 596. Num te facta impia tangunt ...
... Youth and Beauty , he grew fo weak others tear and hale my Ships from the Docks , and extenuated by old Age , that Life wasa Bur - to fail in Pursuit of him ? den to him , and he would gladly have become 596. Num te facta impia tangunt ...
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... Youth , cele - Death and amorous Defpair , they feafonably brates at his Grandfather's Tomb a Kind of relieve and unbend the Mind of the Reader . Mock - fight on Horse - back . In the mean time , 1. Medium iter . Æneas had not yet ad ...
... Youth , cele - Death and amorous Defpair , they feafonably brates at his Grandfather's Tomb a Kind of relieve and unbend the Mind of the Reader . Mock - fight on Horse - back . In the mean time , 1. Medium iter . Æneas had not yet ad ...
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Page 243 - Salve, vera Jovis proles, decus addite divis, Et nos et tua dexter adi pede sacra secundo. Talia carminibus celebrant ; super omnia Caci Speluncam adjiciunt spirantemque ignibus ipsum. Consonat omne nemus strepitu, collesque resultant.
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Page 424 - Martem, — ut potius reor, et potius di numine firment — non ego nee Teucris Italos parere iubebo, nee mihi regna peto ; paribus se legibus ambae 190 invictae gentes aeterna in foedera mittant.
Page 358 - At vero ingentem quatiens Mezentius hastam turbidus ingreditur campo. Quam magnus Orion, cum pedes incedit medii per maxima Nerei Stagna viam scindens, umero supereminet undas, 765 aut summis referens annosam montibus ornum ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit: talis se vastis infert Mezentius armis. Huic contra Aeneas, speculatus in agmine longo, obvius ire parat.