P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... Greek drama . His view of the form may have been similarly affected by the example of those later Greek epics of which the poem of Apollonius is the only surviving specimen , and by the precepts of that critical fraternity of which the ...
... Greek drama . His view of the form may have been similarly affected by the example of those later Greek epics of which the poem of Apollonius is the only surviving specimen , and by the precepts of that critical fraternity of which the ...
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... Greek schools of rhetoric attempts were frequently made to overturn the verdict , not only of history , but of fable ; and we may recall with a smile the fact that it was not merely sophistical acumen , but real sympathy with a friendly ...
... Greek schools of rhetoric attempts were frequently made to overturn the verdict , not only of history , but of fable ; and we may recall with a smile the fact that it was not merely sophistical acumen , but real sympathy with a friendly ...
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... Greek gods with those whom they were them- selves worshipping daily , so he could hardly have avoided calling the Greeks by that generic name by which the Romans knew them , though it had no existence in Homer's time , and had never ...
... Greek gods with those whom they were them- selves worshipping daily , so he could hardly have avoided calling the Greeks by that generic name by which the Romans knew them , though it had no existence in Homer's time , and had never ...
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... Greek tragedy as a step in intellectual progress can be abundantly appreciated from the specimens that have come down to us , and we are able distinctly to recognize its influence upon Virgil . I have in some measure anticipated what I ...
... Greek tragedy as a step in intellectual progress can be abundantly appreciated from the specimens that have come down to us , and we are able distinctly to recognize its influence upon Virgil . I have in some measure anticipated what I ...
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... Greek drama advanced , its rhetorical and dialectical aspects became still more apparent . The chorus , gradually divested of its musical glories , yet compelled as a general rule to continue on the stage , becomes a mere moderator ...
... Greek drama advanced , its rhetorical and dialectical aspects became still more apparent . The chorus , gradually divested of its musical glories , yet compelled as a general rule to continue on the stage , becomes a mere moderator ...
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P. Vergili Maronis Opera: The Aeneid John Conington,Henry Nettleship,Virgil No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 439 - Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno : noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 136 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 456 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna : Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
Page 177 - Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? DoCT. Do you mark that? LADY M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 313 - Nox erat et placidum carpebant fessa soporem corpora per terras, silvaeque et saeva quierant aequora, cum medio volvuntur sidera lapsu, cum tacet omnis ager, pecudes pictaeque volucres, quaeque lacus late liquidos quaeque aspera dumis rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti.
Page 202 - Accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem. Hie domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.