P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... doubt that our present critical materials surpass most of those with which we have had to content ourselves till now , not only in degree but in kind , and that their use is likely to effect a considerable change even in that text of ...
... doubt that our present critical materials surpass most of those with which we have had to content ourselves till now , not only in degree but in kind , and that their use is likely to effect a considerable change even in that text of ...
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... doubt that an apparatus criticus like Ribbeck's is far preferable to one like Heyne and Wagner's : as little doubt can there be that to collate the PREFACE . ix.
... doubt that an apparatus criticus like Ribbeck's is far preferable to one like Heyne and Wagner's : as little doubt can there be that to collate the PREFACE . ix.
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Virgil. as little doubt can there be that to collate the remaining copies satisfactorily would be an almost endless ... doubts having arisen about the existence of each ; but almost the only other passages I turned to were Aeneid I. 668 ...
Virgil. as little doubt can there be that to collate the remaining copies satisfactorily would be an almost endless ... doubts having arisen about the existence of each ; but almost the only other passages I turned to were Aeneid I. 668 ...
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... doubt that too much has been made of Virgil's supposed disqualification or disinclination for epic poetry . We have his own confession in the Sixth Eclogue that his early ambition was to sing of kings and battles : and though Phoebus ...
... doubt that too much has been made of Virgil's supposed disqualification or disinclination for epic poetry . We have his own confession in the Sixth Eclogue that his early ambition was to sing of kings and battles : and though Phoebus ...
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... doubt that the feeling which made Virgil wish to rob the world of his greatest poem was simply the mortification of ... doubts that he had not realized the rustic vigour of Theocritus , or the primitive simplicity of Donatus , Life of ...
... doubt that the feeling which made Virgil wish to rob the world of his greatest poem was simply the mortification of ... doubts that he had not realized the rustic vigour of Theocritus , or the primitive simplicity of Donatus , Life 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.