P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... Roman antiquities and Roman history . Virgil is confessedly one of the most learned of poets : and a commentator who would do him justice ought to be still more learned . The learning of a poet , even when extensive and multifarious ...
... Roman antiquities and Roman history . Virgil is confessedly one of the most learned of poets : and a commentator who would do him justice ought to be still more learned . The learning of a poet , even when extensive and multifarious ...
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... , sagacity , and sobriety . I have also referred to the first volume of Sir George Lewis ' Inquiry into the Credibility of Early Roman History . My in- troductions to the several books of the Aeneid are naturally xii PREFACE .
... , sagacity , and sobriety . I have also referred to the first volume of Sir George Lewis ' Inquiry into the Credibility of Early Roman History . My in- troductions to the several books of the Aeneid are naturally xii PREFACE .
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... Roman Homer ; to write the sequel of the tale of Troy , not as an inferior , but as an equal , not as a younger son of the victorious race , but as the heir of those many ages which had lifted the conquered people to a height far above ...
... Roman Homer ; to write the sequel of the tale of Troy , not as an inferior , but as an equal , not as a younger son of the victorious race , but as the heir of those many ages which had lifted the conquered people to a height far above ...
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... Romans had ever visited , these were not points that interested the Roman readers of the Iliad and Odyssey , nor were they likely to be scrutinized by Roman readers of the Aeneid . The very care which Virgil has taken to construct his ...
... Romans had ever visited , these were not points that interested the Roman readers of the Iliad and Odyssey , nor were they likely to be scrutinized by Roman readers of the Aeneid . The very care which Virgil has taken to construct his ...
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... Roman of the Augustan period , speaking to the average educated intelligence of his own day ; he is anything rather than what modern admirers of Homer would wish him to be , a hierophant of " the inner Homeric world , " an expounder of ...
... Roman of the Augustan period , speaking to the average educated intelligence of his own day ; he is anything rather than what modern admirers of Homer would wish him to be , a hierophant of " the inner Homeric world , " an expounder of ...
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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.