P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1876 - Agriculture |
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... whole tenor of his writings , and must have been alien to the entire current of senti- ment among his contemporaries , whether admiring or adverse . He seems never to have tormented himself with doubts that he had not realized the ...
... whole tenor of his writings , and must have been alien to the entire current of senti- ment among his contemporaries , whether admiring or adverse . He seems never to have tormented himself with doubts that he had not realized the ...
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... whole external form , and even in its very title , and contains an imitation or translation from Homer in almost every page . This avowed rivalry , I venture to think , should be borne in mind in estimating , not only the similarity of ...
... whole external form , and even in its very title , and contains an imitation or translation from Homer in almost every page . This avowed rivalry , I venture to think , should be borne in mind in estimating , not only the similarity of ...
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... whole , and then comes down from the whole to some other part ; just as where , in describing the Trojan horse , he first speaks of it as pine - wood , then as maple , and lastly as oak ; not , I think , from con- fusion or ...
... whole , and then comes down from the whole to some other part ; just as where , in describing the Trojan horse , he first speaks of it as pine - wood , then as maple , and lastly as oak ; not , I think , from con- fusion or ...
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... whole burden is thrown upon Aeneas , who has not only to justify himself for going , but to vouch for the supernatural compulsion under which he goes . But for a hero to leave a mortal love was no novelty in the heroic age , as the ...
... whole burden is thrown upon Aeneas , who has not only to justify himself for going , but to vouch for the supernatural compulsion under which he goes . But for a hero to leave a mortal love was no novelty in the heroic age , as the ...
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... whole of what had been written by any author of note from Homer's time to his own ; in the remains that have come down to us whole classes of composition are entirely wanting , and those which we have exist only in specimens more or ...
... whole of what had been written by any author of note from Homer's time to his own ; in the remains that have come down to us whole classes of composition are entirely wanting , and those which we have exist only in specimens more or ...
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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.