P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... objects which break the distance and afford resting - places to the eye . The sub- stance of the Homeric poetry , the conduct of the action and the con- ception of the actors , came to Virgil modified by the intermediate agency of the ...
... objects which break the distance and afford resting - places to the eye . The sub- stance of the Homeric poetry , the conduct of the action and the con- ception of the actors , came to Virgil modified by the intermediate agency of the ...
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... object of the struggle is the establishment of Rome ; and those who resisted the Trojan invaders ' were not Italian patriots , but men deaf to the voices of the gods , and blind to the course of destiny . Here again the secret seems to ...
... object of the struggle is the establishment of Rome ; and those who resisted the Trojan invaders ' were not Italian patriots , but men deaf to the voices of the gods , and blind to the course of destiny . Here again the secret seems to ...
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... object of the muster before the muster - roll can have any meaning to him . The incidents of the voyage have either no interest at all , or an interest ROMAN unconnected with the main purpose of the poem . INTRODUCTION . 21.
... object of the muster before the muster - roll can have any meaning to him . The incidents of the voyage have either no interest at all , or an interest ROMAN unconnected with the main purpose of the poem . INTRODUCTION . 21.
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... object of every event is to illustrate the action of the contending powers whose strife keeps the prince of Ithaca from his home , the chief of Troy from his destined kingdom . But in Apollonius there is little or nothing of this ; the ...
... object of every event is to illustrate the action of the contending powers whose strife keeps the prince of Ithaca from his home , the chief of Troy from his destined kingdom . But in Apollonius there is little or nothing of this ; the ...
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... object was not to give a faithful interpretation of his great master , but to draw forth his own genius and satisfy the age in which he lived ; and accordingly he modified the Homeric story at his pleasure , according to the thousand ...
... object was not to give a faithful interpretation of his great master , but to draw forth his own genius and satisfy the age in which he lived ; and accordingly he modified the Homeric story at his pleasure , according to the thousand ...
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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.