P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... intended as mere temporary make - shifts ' , props to stay the building until more solid supports should be forthcoming ; but modern criticism has not in general been very happy in pointing out these weak places , and for the present we ...
... intended as mere temporary make - shifts ' , props to stay the building until more solid supports should be forthcoming ; but modern criticism has not in general been very happy in pointing out these weak places , and for the present we ...
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... intended to be a Homeric one , attached to the name as a sort of prefix , and to be taken as a matter of course ; but his piety is not merely nominal ; it shows itself in his whole feeling and conduct to the gods , his father , and his ...
... intended to be a Homeric one , attached to the name as a sort of prefix , and to be taken as a matter of course ; but his piety is not merely nominal ; it shows itself in his whole feeling and conduct to the gods , his father , and his ...
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... intended to accomplish , —those of interesting us in the hero and introducing the story . After a brief statement of the subject , we have a view of the supernatural ma- chinery by which it is to be worked out ; and this , though ...
... intended to accomplish , —those of interesting us in the hero and introducing the story . After a brief statement of the subject , we have a view of the supernatural ma- chinery by which it is to be worked out ; and this , though ...
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... intended to be a monument of Roman greatness . The remaining incidents of the First Book need not detain us much longer . As a general rule , they are borrowed from Homer ; but we may admire the skill with which Virgil has introduced ...
... intended to be a monument of Roman greatness . The remaining incidents of the First Book need not detain us much longer . As a general rule , they are borrowed from Homer ; but we may admire the skill with which Virgil has introduced ...
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... intended to suggest , though it does not express , a contrast between this and Virg.'s previous poems . - In commencing with ' cano ' he has followed his own ex- ample in the Georgics , rather than that of Homer , who at once invokes ...
... intended to suggest , though it does not express , a contrast between this and Virg.'s previous poems . - In commencing with ' cano ' he has followed his own ex- ample in the Georgics , rather than that of Homer , who at once invokes ...
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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.