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... expression , and that degree of tact which hits on a word that might possibly have been used instead ; but there their praise must cease . Such ingenuity is , I believe , almost wholly inapplicable to an author like Virgil , whose text ...
... expression , and that degree of tact which hits on a word that might possibly have been used instead ; but there their praise must cease . Such ingenuity is , I believe , almost wholly inapplicable to an author like Virgil , whose text ...
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... expression , this is not the place to speak . They are far from numerous , and will be found noticed , so far as I have observed them , in the notes . But it is not less true that Virgil's debts for language and phraseology , to one at ...
... expression , this is not the place to speak . They are far from numerous , and will be found noticed , so far as I have observed them , in the notes . But it is not less true that Virgil's debts for language and phraseology , to one at ...
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... expression and turns of rhythm may have been ap- propriated by a writer of whom it might be said , as it has been said of Pope , that " there is scarcely a happy combination of words , or a phrase poetically elegant , in his native ...
... expression and turns of rhythm may have been ap- propriated by a writer of whom it might be said , as it has been said of Pope , that " there is scarcely a happy combination of words , or a phrase poetically elegant , in his native ...
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... expression , innovating here , paraphrasing there , in order to avoid obvious words which hap- pened to be unsuitable to his metre ; and though Virgil was not likely to follow him in his harsher ' tours de force , ' his ' saxo cere ...
... expression , innovating here , paraphrasing there , in order to avoid obvious words which hap- pened to be unsuitable to his metre ; and though Virgil was not likely to follow him in his harsher ' tours de force , ' his ' saxo cere ...
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... expression for " refert pectore , " which we find 5. 409. - O terque quaterque beati , ' & c . The whole of this is closely imitated from part of the speech of Ulysses , Od . 5 . 306–312 . The horror of Ulysses is ex- cited by the ...
... expression for " refert pectore , " which we find 5. 409. - O terque quaterque beati , ' & c . The whole of this is closely imitated from part of the speech of Ulysses , Od . 5 . 306–312 . The horror of Ulysses is ex- cited by the ...
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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.