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... suggest the thought and to guide the pencil . Of Virgil's more palpable and measurable obligations to the writings of the Greek tragedians there is less to be said . As I have already intimated , several of the plays from which he is ...
... suggest the thought and to guide the pencil . Of Virgil's more palpable and measurable obligations to the writings of the Greek tragedians there is less to be said . As I have already intimated , several of the plays from which he is ...
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... suggests the cave of Avernus in Italy ; Evander and Pallas appear once more in Lycus and Dascylus ; Here addresses Thetis as Juno addresses Juturna ; Triton gives the same vigorous aid in launching the Argo that he gives to the stranded ...
... suggests the cave of Avernus in Italy ; Evander and Pallas appear once more in Lycus and Dascylus ; Here addresses Thetis as Juno addresses Juturna ; Triton gives the same vigorous aid in launching the Argo that he gives to the stranded ...
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... suggest the notion of any very close imitation . When Naevius says of the wives of Anchises and Aeneas- " Amborum uxores Noctu Troiad exibant capitibus opertis Flentes ambae abeuntes lacrimis cum multis , " we are not obliged to think ...
... suggest the notion of any very close imitation . When Naevius says of the wives of Anchises and Aeneas- " Amborum uxores Noctu Troiad exibant capitibus opertis Flentes ambae abeuntes lacrimis cum multis , " we are not obliged to think ...
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... suggest a subject for poetry to some Keats or Shelley , in whose mind the seed casually dropped by Virgil should expand and germinate . ARMA virumque cano , Troiae qui primus ab oris 1-7 . ] ' I sing the hero who founded the Trojan ...
... suggest a subject for poetry to some Keats or Shelley , in whose mind the seed casually dropped by Virgil should expand and germinate . ARMA virumque cano , Troiae qui primus ab oris 1-7 . ] ' I sing the hero who founded the Trojan ...
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... 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 the Muse ; and ...
... 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 the Muse ; and ...
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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.