The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 279
... Turnus ' bridal hopes , was glowing and seething with all a woman's passion , a woman's spleen . Snatching a snake from her dark venomed locks , she hurls it at her , and lodges it in the bosom close to the very heart , that , maddened ...
... Turnus ' bridal hopes , was glowing and seething with all a woman's passion , a woman's spleen . Snatching a snake from her dark venomed locks , she hurls it at her , and lodges it in the bosom close to the very heart , that , maddened ...
Page 280
... Turnus ? If Latian folk must have a son - in- law fetched from a foreign stock , and this is unalterably fixed , and your father Faunus ' command sits heavy on your soul , I hold that every nation is foreign whose independence severs it ...
... Turnus ? If Latian folk must have a son - in- law fetched from a foreign stock , and this is unalterably fixed , and your father Faunus ' command sits heavy on your soul , I hold that every nation is foreign whose independence severs it ...
Page 281
... Turnus and her daughter , her eye red and glaring ; and sudden she shouts like a savage : ' Ho ! mothers of Latium all , where'er ye be , if ye have human hearts and kindness left there for poor Amata , if ye are stung to think of a ...
... Turnus and her daughter , her eye red and glaring ; and sudden she shouts like a savage : ' Ho ! mothers of Latium all , where'er ye be , if ye have human hearts and kindness left there for poor Amata , if ye are stung to think of a ...
Page 282
... Turnus for a foe . ' 6 Laughing scornfully at the old seer , the youth thus spoke in reply : The news that a fleet has arrived in the Tiber has not , as you imagine , escaped my ear . Conjure me no such mighty terrors , nor think that ...
... Turnus for a foe . ' 6 Laughing scornfully at the old seer , the youth thus spoke in reply : The news that a fleet has arrived in the Tiber has not , as you imagine , escaped my ear . Conjure me no such mighty terrors , nor think that ...
Page 283
... Turnus is filling the Rutulians with the spirit of daring , Allecto is putting her infernal wings in motion against the Teucrians . A new device working in her mind , she fixed her eye on the spot where on the winding coast Iulus was ...
... Turnus is filling the Rutulians with the spirit of daring , Allecto is putting her infernal wings in motion against the Teucrians . A new device working in her mind , she fixed her eye on the spot where on the winding coast Iulus was ...
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