P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... regarded 2 . " Let them try to steal for themselves as they say I have stolen for myself , and they will find that it is easier to rob Hercules of his club than to rob Homer of a single verse . " It was an act of high - handed ...
... regarded 2 . " Let them try to steal for themselves as they say I have stolen for myself , and they will find that it is easier to rob Hercules of his club than to rob Homer of a single verse . " It was an act of high - handed ...
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... regarded her during the siege we are not told ; he may have shared the mixed feeling of admiration and disapproval which the old men on the wall express in their hour of respite ; he may have partaken of the sense of repulsion with ...
... regarded her during the siege we are not told ; he may have shared the mixed feeling of admiration and disapproval which the old men on the wall express in their hour of respite ; he may have partaken of the sense of repulsion with ...
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... regarded by one who wishes to estimate the surrounding circum- stances which told upon the genius of the Augustan poet . The expec- tation of an unknown birth which should be greater than the Iliad was doubtless the vision which ...
... regarded by one who wishes to estimate the surrounding circum- stances which told upon the genius of the Augustan poet . The expec- tation of an unknown birth which should be greater than the Iliad was doubtless the vision which ...
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... regarded as the future founder of the Trojan nation ; the voyages are sufficiently diversified , but the object of every event is to illustrate the action of the contending powers whose strife keeps the prince of Ithaca from his home ...
... regarded as the future founder of the Trojan nation ; the voyages are sufficiently diversified , but the object of every event is to illustrate the action of the contending powers whose strife keeps the prince of Ithaca from his home ...
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... regarded in the gross , Homer is mature and articu- late , while Ennius is still crude and infantine , and it was not to be expected that the large utterance of the divine foretime of Greece should come mended to Virgil's ear when ...
... regarded in the gross , Homer is mature and articu- late , while Ennius is still crude and infantine , and it was not to be expected that the large utterance of the divine foretime of Greece should come mended to Virgil's ear when ...
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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.