The Aeneïd of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Metrical Clavis, and an Historical, Geographical, and Mythological Index (Classic Reprint)

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Passing by the' Eclogues and Georgics, our remarks on which will be reserved for a future occasion, we will conclude the present biographical sketch with a flaw observations on the Enei'd. This production has for its subject the settlement of the Trojans in' Italy. And, belon ing to it nobler class of poetry than the Georgics, is al most equa ly perfect in its irind. It ranks, _indeed, in the very highest order, and it was in this exalted species that Virgil was most fitted to excel. Undisturbed by excess of passion, and never hurried away by the current of ideas, he calmly consigned to immortal verse t e scenes which his fancy had first painted as lovely, and which his understanding had afterward approved. The extent, too, and depth of the design proposed in' the Eneid rendered this sub jection to the judgment indispensable.

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