P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... Homeric poems , as expressed in the third volume of his ' Studies . ' In my former volume I was thought , I believe , to have disparaged unduly Virgil's claim to originality : I may now be considered to be taking the opposite side , in ...
... Homeric poems , as expressed in the third volume of his ' Studies . ' In my former volume I was thought , I believe , to have disparaged unduly Virgil's claim to originality : I may now be considered to be taking the opposite side , in ...
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... Homeric poems , is to imagine an anachronism and an impossibility , to attribute to him a thought which is inconsistent with the whole tenor of his writings , and must have been alien to the entire current of senti- ment among his ...
... Homeric poems , is to imagine an anachronism and an impossibility , to attribute to him a thought which is inconsistent with the whole tenor of his writings , and must have been alien to the entire current of senti- ment among his ...
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... Homeric poetry , the conduct of the action and the con- ception of the actors , came to Virgil modified by the intermediate agency of the Greek drama . His view of the form may have been similarly affected by the example of those later ...
... Homeric poetry , the conduct of the action and the con- ception of the actors , came to Virgil modified by the intermediate agency of the Greek drama . His view of the form may have been similarly affected by the example of those later ...
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... Homeric and Virgilian epics , but their discrepancies . When we require that Virgil , drawing as he does his characters from the circle of Homeric legend , should exhibit them as they are exhibited in Homer , we are not only forgetting ...
... Homeric and Virgilian epics , but their discrepancies . When we require that Virgil , drawing as he does his characters from the circle of Homeric legend , should exhibit them as they are exhibited in Homer , we are not only forgetting ...
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... Homeric Ulysses would probably have shrunk ; but we must not judge a poet as we should judge a historian who were to invent actions in order to support a preconceived theory of character . If the right of independent treatment be ...
... Homeric Ulysses would probably have shrunk ; but we must not judge a poet as we should judge a historian who were to invent actions in order to support a preconceived theory of character . If the right of independent treatment be ...
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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.