A Modern Virgilian: A Memorial Lecture to Monsignor Ronald Knox Delivered to the Virgil SocietyVirgil Society, 1959 - 16 pages |
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... give them walls - he must actually give them manners : bellum ingens geret Italia , populosque feroces contundet moresque viris et moenia ponet . Aeneas is to Turnus what Prospero is to Caliban ; he secures the white man's supremacy ...
... give them walls - he must actually give them manners : bellum ingens geret Italia , populosque feroces contundet moresque viris et moenia ponet . Aeneas is to Turnus what Prospero is to Caliban ; he secures the white man's supremacy ...
Page 8
... give honour where honour was due , and to be afraid when it was right to be afraid . The last question that Aeneas asked himself -though whether Virgil asked it is another matter was whether such and such a thing that had to be done was ...
... give honour where honour was due , and to be afraid when it was right to be afraid . The last question that Aeneas asked himself -though whether Virgil asked it is another matter was whether such and such a thing that had to be done was ...
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... give us when he died . I hope he would have been pleased that these lectures should at last be made public , because they show him to have been as mature at twenty - four as he seemed to be youthful at sixty , and because I am sure that ...
... give us when he died . I hope he would have been pleased that these lectures should at last be made public , because they show him to have been as mature at twenty - four as he seemed to be youthful at sixty , and because I am sure that ...
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Aeneas goes Aeneid amplum mittimur Elysium Anchises Ascanius Augustan peace Augustus Bede bello clari Book Caesar Christian humanist civilisation Cleopatra community of contemplative Conington Deiphobus delivered by Ronald desert Dido simply divine doctrine of Purgatory Elysium et pauci Euryalus exinde per amplum fata Fate founded his line fuge fuit hae sine sorte Heaven Hegel Hell Homer Iliad Iulus Juppiter knew Knox replied laeta arva tenemus Lausus LECTURE to Monsignor lectures on Virgil Libyae Limbo Marcellus meaning of pietas Memorial Lecture Mezentius Minos MODERN VIRGILIAN mortal mortal sin Nec vero hae Newman Nisus optimistic poem Palinurus patriam pauci laeta arva peaceful epic Penates pius Plato poet Priam Purgatory quid re-incarnation reached Elysium reminded ROBERT SPEAIGHT Rome Ronald Knox delivered Rutilians says Knox sine sorte datae souls spes surgentis Iuli surely sympathy Tartarus tell things Troy Turnus understand Virgil vero hae sine Virgil delivered Virgil Society Virgil's eschatology