P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... whole question : we shall learn the real value of our newly collated MSS . better as we become used to them , and there may be a danger of accepting novelties of reading simply as novelties - a danger which PREFACE . vii.
... whole question : we shall learn the real value of our newly collated MSS . better as we become used to them , and there may be a danger of accepting novelties of reading simply as novelties - a danger which PREFACE . vii.
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... better suited to the ordinary reader : as it is , I trust the discrepancy will be pardoned . The commentaries which I have used have been in general the same as those employed for the Eclogues and Georgics . I have lost the ...
... better suited to the ordinary reader : as it is , I trust the discrepancy will be pardoned . The commentaries which I have used have been in general the same as those employed for the Eclogues and Georgics . I have lost the ...
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... better illustrated than by a comparison of the language of Virgil with the language of Sophocles ' . The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius would have their value for the critic of the Aeneid , if only as the single representative which ...
... better illustrated than by a comparison of the language of Virgil with the language of Sophocles ' . The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius would have their value for the critic of the Aeneid , if only as the single representative which ...
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... better in conception than in execution . The adventures of the suppliants in Phaeacia have rather the grotesqueness of romance than the dignity of epic narrative . The other incidents of the homeward voyage , like those of the voyage ...
... better in conception than in execution . The adventures of the suppliants in Phaeacia have rather the grotesqueness of romance than the dignity of epic narrative . The other incidents of the homeward voyage , like those of the voyage ...
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... the Aeneid ; but his more continuous studies will be better devoted to the poetry of Homer and to the tragic drama of Greece . See on A. 2. 237 , 281 , 499 , & c . P. VERGILI MARONIS AENEIDOS LIBER PRIMUS . THE subject of 28 AENEIS .
... the Aeneid ; but his more continuous studies will be better devoted to the poetry of Homer and to the tragic drama of Greece . See on A. 2. 237 , 281 , 499 , & c . P. VERGILI MARONIS AENEIDOS LIBER PRIMUS . THE subject of 28 AENEIS .
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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.