P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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Page vii
... whole question : we shall learn the real value of our newly collated MSS . better as we become used to them , and there may be a danger of accepting novelties of reading simply as novelties - a danger which PREFACE . vii.
... whole question : we shall learn the real value of our newly collated MSS . better as we become used to them , and there may be a danger of accepting novelties of reading simply as novelties - a danger which PREFACE . vii.
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Virgil. novelties of reading simply as novelties - a danger which I seem to see exemplified in Ribbeck's text , and which my readers will perhaps find to be exemplified in mine . The general result certainly confirms what I ventured to ...
Virgil. novelties of reading simply as novelties - a danger which I seem to see exemplified in Ribbeck's text , and which my readers will perhaps find to be exemplified in mine . The general result certainly confirms what I ventured to ...
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... simply the mortification of leaving in a state of comparative imperfection a work which he had intended to be his masterpiece . To imagine that he was sensible of the unreality which , to a certain extent , characterizes the Aeneid , as ...
... simply the mortification of leaving in a state of comparative imperfection a work which he had intended to be his masterpiece . To imagine that he was sensible of the unreality which , to a certain extent , characterizes the Aeneid , as ...
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... simply mean and feeble , unmanly and unheroic , is unjust , and even absurd . His appearances in Homer ought not to prejudice our opinion about his appearances in Virgil ; nor perhaps would they , were it not for an error in judgment ...
... simply mean and feeble , unmanly and unheroic , is unjust , and even absurd . His appearances in Homer ought not to prejudice our opinion about his appearances in Virgil ; nor perhaps would they , were it not for an error in judgment ...
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... simply as a woman ; it is the mere exhibition of the depths of a woman's heart that stirs our own so powerfully . Other heroes have loved and left as Aeneas does ; few have had as strong a justification as he can plead for his flight ...
... simply as a woman ; it is the mere exhibition of the depths of a woman's heart that stirs our own so powerfully . Other heroes have loved and left as Aeneas does ; few have had as strong a justification as he can plead for his flight ...
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P. Vergili Maronis Opera: The Aeneid John Conington,Henry Nettleship,Virgil No preview available - 2015 |
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Achilles Aeneas Aeneid aequora Aesch aether Anchises animi Apoll Apollo appears arma Ascanius atque auras caelum Carthage Catull Cerda circum comp Creusa cursus Dardanus Deiphobus Dict Dido Dido's Donatus doubtless Edition Ennius epithet explained expression fata favour Fcap foll Forb Forc fragm give gods Gossrau Greek haec Heins Helenus hendiadys Henry Heyne Heyne remarks hinc Homeric imitated inter ipse Juno litora Livy Lucr lumina manu meaning mentioned mihi Mnestheus moenia natural notion numine nunc omnis parallel passage pater perhaps Pierius poet poetical Priam Priscian probably quae quam quid quod quoted reading reference Ribbeck rightly Roman says seems sense Serv Sibyl story suppose terra thinks tibi tion Troia Trojans Troy Ulysses urbem Venus Virg Virg.'s Virgil viri Wagn words Wund δὲ καὶ τε
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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.