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... poets : and a commentator who would do him justice ought to be still more learned . The learning of a poet , even when extensive and multifarious , may be desultory , uncritical , inexact : he may show ignorance as well as knowledge ...
... poets : and a commentator who would do him justice ought to be still more learned . The learning of a poet , even when extensive and multifarious , may be desultory , uncritical , inexact : he may show ignorance as well as knowledge ...
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... poet : as a student of poetry , I take delight in tracing , word by word , his delicate intricacies of expres- sion , which stimulate curiosity while they baffle analysis , as well as in endeavouring to appreciate the broader features ...
... poet : as a student of poetry , I take delight in tracing , word by word , his delicate intricacies of expres- sion , which stimulate curiosity while they baffle analysis , as well as in endeavouring to appreciate the broader features ...
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... poet . The days are past when Scaliger could compare Virgil and Homer in detail , and pronounce that the scholar had in almost every instance excelled his master ; nor would a modern reader easily tolerate even those less invidious ...
... poet . The days are past when Scaliger could compare Virgil and Homer in detail , and pronounce that the scholar had in almost every instance excelled his master ; nor would a modern reader easily tolerate even those less invidious ...
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... poet . It is possible however that the habit of sharply contrasting the characteristics of the several works of Virgil may have led to an exaggeration on the one side , as I believe it has on the other , - that the Aeneid may have been ...
... poet . It is possible however that the habit of sharply contrasting the characteristics of the several works of Virgil may have led to an exaggeration on the one side , as I believe it has on the other , - that the Aeneid may have been ...
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... poet like Virgil , and how abortive he might consider the work which had lost the advantage of so long a gestation . We cannot , indeed , tell , except in a very few obvious cases , such as the hemistichs , and perhaps also certain ...
... poet like Virgil , and how abortive he might consider the work which had lost the advantage of so long a gestation . We cannot , indeed , tell , except in a very few obvious cases , such as the hemistichs , and perhaps also certain ...
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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.