The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid, Volume 4J. Dodsley, 1778 |
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... spears , a dreadful fight ! they bore The heads of both the hapless youths , before ; With barb'rous joy furvey the bloody prize , And shout , and follow with triumphant cries . The Trojans , on the left , fuftain the fight From their ...
... spears , a dreadful fight ! they bore The heads of both the hapless youths , before ; With barb'rous joy furvey the bloody prize , And shout , and follow with triumphant cries . The Trojans , on the left , fuftain the fight From their ...
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... spears . But fwifter Lycus urg'd his rapid way , 755 Tho ' jav❜lins hifs , and fwords around him play ; Flies to the walls and battlements again , Leaps high , and reaches at his friends in vain . For close behind the furious Turnus ...
... spears . But fwifter Lycus urg'd his rapid way , 755 Tho ' jav❜lins hifs , and fwords around him play ; Flies to the walls and battlements again , Leaps high , and reaches at his friends in vain . For close behind the furious Turnus ...
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... spear which Turnus let fly at Bitias , to one of those enormous piles thrown into the Baian fea . MELMOTH's notes to his elegant tranflation of Pliny's epiftles , p . 510 . + 971. The shores of Prochyta refound . ] Prochyta alta tremit ...
... spear which Turnus let fly at Bitias , to one of those enormous piles thrown into the Baian fea . MELMOTH's notes to his elegant tranflation of Pliny's epiftles , p . 510 . + 971. The shores of Prochyta refound . ] Prochyta alta tremit ...
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... spear ; Then , as he difengag'd the dart with pain , Fir'd at the fight , bold Hisbon rush'd in vain Against the prince ; the prince his bosom gor❜d , And plung❜d into the lungs his thund'ring sword : Next , lewd Anchemolus his ...
... spear ; Then , as he difengag'd the dart with pain , Fir'd at the fight , bold Hisbon rush'd in vain Against the prince ; the prince his bosom gor❜d , And plung❜d into the lungs his thund'ring sword : Next , lewd Anchemolus his ...
Page 121
... The fatal fifters claim'd their destin'd prize . Now ftood the warrior ( for his hour drew near ) A victim facred to th ' Evandrian spear . 600 605 Euandri . quem fic Pallas petit ante precatus : 425 Book 10 . 121 THE ENEID OF VIRGIL .
... The fatal fifters claim'd their destin'd prize . Now ftood the warrior ( for his hour drew near ) A victim facred to th ' Evandrian spear . 600 605 Euandri . quem fic Pallas petit ante precatus : 425 Book 10 . 121 THE ENEID OF VIRGIL .
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Aeneas Æneid aequis aethera Afcanius againſt arma armis arms atque brave breaſt cafus Camilla Catrou chief circumftances cloſe dart death deûm dextra Dido Drances Eneas Ennius equos Euryalus ev'ry facred faid fame fate fays feems fhall fhould fide field fierce fight fimile fimul fire firft fkies flain flew fome fpear friends ftill fubject fuch fuper furious fword goddeſs haec Haud Heav'n hero himſelf hoft Homer Iapis Iapyx Iliad inglorius interea ipfe jav'lin Juno Jupiter Juturna laft laſt Latian Latini Latinus Laufus manu Meffapus Mezentius mihi moenia moſt multa muros neque Nifus nunc o'er obferves omnis paffage Pallas pater plain poem poet pow'rs prince pugnae quae Quid quod rage rife Rutuli Rutulians ſhall ſkies ſky ſpear ſteeds tela Teucri thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tow'rs Trojan Troy Turnus uſed Virgil warrior wound
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Page 211 - Then, crush'd by rules, and weaken'd as refin'd, For years the pow'r of tragedy declin'd; From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd whilst Passion slept; Yet still did Virtue deign the stage to tread, Philosophy remain'd though Nature fled.
Page 320 - Ascanium fusis circum complectitur armis summaque per galeam delibans oscula fatur : " disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, 435 fortunam ex aliis. nunc te mea dextera bello defensum dabit et magna inter praemia ducet : tu facito, mox cum matura adoleverit aetas, sis memor et te animo repetentem exempla tuorum et pater Aeneas et avunculus excitet Hector.
Page 36 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Page 375 - The unity of the epic action, as well as the unity of the fable, does not consist either in the unity of the hero or in the unity of time; three things, I suppose, are necessary to it. The first is to make use of no episode but what arises...
Page 382 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 346 - ... venator cursu canis et latratibus instat; ille autem, insidiis et ripa territus alta, mille fugit refugitque vias; at vividus Umber haeret hians, iam iamque tenet, similisque tenenti increpuit malis, morsuque elusus inani est.
Page 345 - In counterpoise, now ponders all events, Battles and realms: In these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam ; Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend.
Page 386 - Bruyere declares that we are come into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that description and sentiment have been long exhausted.
Page 349 - Hector, and making signs to the troops not to dart at him. But all this does not appear when we read the poem ; for what is wonderful is always agreeable, and as a proof of it, we find that they who relate anything usually add something to the truth, that it may the better please those who hear it.
Page 209 - No man man delights in furrows and ftumbling-blocks : and let our love to antiquity be ever fo great, a fine ruin is one thing, and a heap of rubbifh another. The imitators of Milton, like moft other imitators, are not copies, but caricaturas of their original ; they are a hundred times more obfolete and cramp than he, (and equally fo in all places ; whereas it mould have been obferved of Milton, that he is not lavifh of his exotic words and phrafes every where alike, but employs...