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Aeneas Aeneid allegory ancient appears bees beginning better Book Bucolics character close comes death Dido divine earth Eclogue epic farm farmer fate feeling fields final follow Fourth further Gallus Georgics give gods Golden Age Greek hand heart hero Hesiod hills Homer human Idyll Italy kind land later least leaves less lines look Lucretius magic Mantua master means mind nature never Octavian once passage pastoral perhaps picture poem poet poet's poetry Pollio praise present reader Roman Rome scene Second seems Servius shepherd sing soil song spirit spring story stream suggests tell theme Theocritus things Third thought tion touch tragedy trees true turn verse vines Virgil whole wind woods write written young youthful
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Page 21 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 211 - ... et pluvia ingenti sata laeta boumque labores 325 diluit; implentur fossae et cava flumina crescunt cum sonitu fervetque fretis spirantibus aequor. ipse pater media nimborum in nocte corusca fulmina molitur dextra; quo maxuma motu terra tremit; fugere ferae et mortalia corda 330 per gentes humilis stravit pavor...
Page 167 - The chosen delicacy of expressions of the latter, are as a mist of light which conceal from us the intense and exceeding truth of his conceptions of nature. Livy is instinct with poetry. Yet Horace, Catullus, Ovid, and generally the other great writers of the Virgilian age, saw man and nature in the mirror of Greece.
Page 162 - Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti, carmina qui lusi pastorum audaxque iuventa, Tityre, te patulae cecini sub tegmine fagi.
Page 20 - Thestylis orat ; et faciet, quoniam sordent tibi munera nostra. huc ades, o formose puer : tibi lilia plenis ecce ferunt Nymphae calathis ; tibi candida Nais, pallentes violas et summa papavera carpens, narcissum et florem iungit bene olentis anethi ; tum casia atque alus intexens suavibus herbis mollia luteola pingit vaccinia caltha.
Page 27 - OLD poets foster'd under friendlier skies, Old Virgil who would write ten lines, they say, , At dawn, and lavish all the golden day To make them wealthier in his readers...
Page 81 - Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Page 84 - And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
Page 214 - Scylla capillo; 405 quacumque illa levem fugiens secat aethera pennis, ecce inimicus atrox magno stridore per auras insequitur Nisus; qua se fert Nisus ad auras, illa levem fugiens raptim secat aethera pennis.
Page 392 - With goddess-like demeanour forth she went, Not unattended ; for on her, as queen, A pomp of winning graces waited still, And from about her shot darts pf desire Into all eyes, to wish her still in sight.