The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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Page 44
... javelin strikes Athos or Rhodope on the high Ceraunian range : doubly loud howls the south wind , doubly thick gathers the cloud of rain , and under the blast's mighty stroke forest and shore by turns wail in agony . With this terror ...
... javelin strikes Athos or Rhodope on the high Ceraunian range : doubly loud howls the south wind , doubly thick gathers the cloud of rain , and under the blast's mighty stroke forest and shore by turns wail in agony . With this terror ...
Page 49
... javelins , or strike his heavy rake on empty helms , and gaze astounded on the gigantic bones that start from their broken sepulchres . Gods of our fathers , native powers , and Romulus and Vesta , our great mother , who preservest the ...
... javelins , or strike his heavy rake on empty helms , and gaze astounded on the gigantic bones that start from their broken sepulchres . Gods of our fathers , native powers , and Romulus and Vesta , our great mother , who preservest the ...
Page 146
... javelins , among foemen , on we go with no uncertain fate before us , keeping our way through the heart of the town , while night flaps over us its dark , overshadowing wings . Who could unfold in speech the carnage , the horrors of ...
... javelins , among foemen , on we go with no uncertain fate before us , keeping our way through the heart of the town , while night flaps over us its dark , overshadowing wings . Who could unfold in speech the carnage , the horrors of ...
Page 163
... javelins . " ' Then , indeed , terror , blank and irresolute , came over me— I was aghast - my hair stood erect , my tongue clove to my mouth . Yes , this Polydorus had long ago been sent secretly by Priam , unhappy then as ever , with ...
... javelins . " ' Then , indeed , terror , blank and irresolute , came over me— I was aghast - my hair stood erect , my tongue clove to my mouth . Yes , this Polydorus had long ago been sent secretly by Priam , unhappy then as ever , with ...
Page 218
... javelin and the chase , keen of eye , his chest seeming to heave ; then , swooping down from Ida , the bearer of Jove's armour has snatched him up aloft in his crooked talons , while his aged guardians are stretching in vain their hands ...
... javelin and the chase , keen of eye , his chest seeming to heave ; then , swooping down from Ida , the bearer of Jove's armour has snatched him up aloft in his crooked talons , while his aged guardians are stretching in vain their hands ...
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