P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... doubtless in his own judgment , as well as in that of eulogistic critics , that Ennius appeared to be wise and brave , and a second Homer1 . But the period which witnessed the establishment of the empire generated new hopes and ...
... doubtless in his own judgment , as well as in that of eulogistic critics , that Ennius appeared to be wise and brave , and a second Homer1 . But the period which witnessed the establishment of the empire generated new hopes and ...
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... doubtless held himself bound to follow Homer's narrative only so far as that narrative had taken hold of the popular mind of Rome . He was not the interpreter of an ancient record , bound to minute and painstaking accuracy ; he 10 AENEIS .
... doubtless held himself bound to follow Homer's narrative only so far as that narrative had taken hold of the popular mind of Rome . He was not the interpreter of an ancient record , bound to minute and painstaking accuracy ; he 10 AENEIS .
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... doubtless the vision which illuminated the later years of Virgil's own life , as we know it to have occupied the mind of his contemporaries . But it was not simply by contemplating Homer , by studying him intently and gradually ...
... doubtless the vision which illuminated the later years of Virgil's own life , as we know it to have occupied the mind of his contemporaries . But it was not simply by contemplating Homer , by studying him intently and gradually ...
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... doubtless existed in the previous epic , lyric , and gnomic composition ; but the drama stood distinguished from all these by bringing it out into conspicuous amplitude , and making it the substantive means of effect . " The structural ...
... doubtless existed in the previous epic , lyric , and gnomic composition ; but the drama stood distinguished from all these by bringing it out into conspicuous amplitude , and making it the substantive means of effect . " The structural ...
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... doubtless were in the opening drama , nor have we more than the faintest glimpses of the terms of reconciliation which were ratified in the third ; we simply see the Titan in the first agony of his suffering , we feel his wrongs , we ...
... doubtless were in the opening drama , nor have we more than the faintest glimpses of the terms of reconciliation which were ratified in the third ; we simply see the Titan in the first agony of his suffering , we feel his wrongs , we ...
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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.