The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 9
... goddess . I have marked the spot with my own eyes where the wood - pigeons have been building up in the sky . M. I have done my best for to - day ; ten golden apples , picked from a tree in the orchard , I have sent my boy ; to- morrow ...
... goddess . I have marked the spot with my own eyes where the wood - pigeons have been building up in the sky . M. I have done my best for to - day ; ten golden apples , picked from a tree in the orchard , I have sent my boy ; to- morrow ...
Page 10
... goddesses , breed a heifer for your gentle reader . M. Pollio writes fresh verses himself . Breed a bull old enough to butt with the horn and spurn the sand with the hoof . D. The man that loves you , Pollio , let him arrive where he is ...
... goddesses , breed a heifer for your gentle reader . M. Pollio writes fresh verses himself . Breed a bull old enough to butt with the horn and spurn the sand with the hoof . D. The man that loves you , Pollio , let him arrive where he is ...
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... goddess with their ships , to build towns with walls round them , to cleave furrows in the soil of earth . A second Tiphys shall there be in those days - a second Argo to convey the flower of chivalry ; a second war of heroes , too ...
... goddess with their ships , to build towns with walls round them , to cleave furrows in the soil of earth . A second Tiphys shall there be in those days - a second Argo to convey the flower of chivalry ; a second war of heroes , too ...
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... goddess ! ECLOGUE V. DAPHNIS . Me . Why not sit down together , Mopsus , as we happen to have met , both good in our way - you at filling slender reeds with your breath , I at singing songs - here among this clump of elms and hazels ...
... goddess ! ECLOGUE V. DAPHNIS . Me . Why not sit down together , Mopsus , as we happen to have met , both good in our way - you at filling slender reeds with your breath , I at singing songs - here among this clump of elms and hazels ...
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... goddess as she was . When I was venturing to sing of kings and battles , the Cynthian god touched my ear , and appealed to my memory . It is a shepherd's part , Tityrus , that the sheep that he feeds should be fat , and the songs that ...
... goddess as she was . When I was venturing to sing of kings and battles , the Cynthian god touched my ear , and appealed to my memory . It is a shepherd's part , Tityrus , that the sheep that he feeds should be fat , and the songs that ...
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