Notes of a twelve years' voyage of discovery in the first six books of the EneisMeinhold and Sons, 1853 |
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... FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE ENEIS , BY JAMES HENRY , M. D. FELLOW OF THE KING'S AND QUEEN'S COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND . DRESDEN , PRINTED BY MEINHOLD AND SONS . 1853 . 298. e . 32 . PREFATORY REMARKS . § I. MSS . and rare books.
... FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE ENEIS , BY JAMES HENRY , M. D. FELLOW OF THE KING'S AND QUEEN'S COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND . DRESDEN , PRINTED BY MEINHOLD AND SONS . 1853 . 298. e . 32 . PREFATORY REMARKS . § I. MSS . and rare books.
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... Eneis ; happily this leaf is preserved in the Vatican Library in Rome , where I saw it in the year 1850 . 2. The oldest Gudian ; preserved in the Bibliotheca Guelferbytana at Wolfenbüttel . This MS . is numbered on the back 70 , and is ...
... Eneis ; happily this leaf is preserved in the Vatican Library in Rome , where I saw it in the year 1850 . 2. The oldest Gudian ; preserved in the Bibliotheca Guelferbytana at Wolfenbüttel . This MS . is numbered on the back 70 , and is ...
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... Eneis in it , and took memorandums of its readings in one hundred and eleven places , a great number of which ( not all however ) I have quoted in this work . 3. 4. The two Leipzig MSS . , viz . Nos . 35 and 36 ( Naumann's Catal ...
... Eneis in it , and took memorandums of its readings in one hundred and eleven places , a great number of which ( not all however ) I have quoted in this work . 3. 4. The two Leipzig MSS . , viz . Nos . 35 and 36 ( Naumann's Catal ...
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... Eneis is not a poem , but an accidence for teaching schoolboys Latin . His forty one Quaestiones Virgilianae are about what , do you think , gentle reader ? about Virgil's splendid imagery ? about his extraordinary purity and dignity of ...
... Eneis is not a poem , but an accidence for teaching schoolboys Latin . His forty one Quaestiones Virgilianae are about what , do you think , gentle reader ? about Virgil's splendid imagery ? about his extraordinary purity and dignity of ...
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... Eneis ren- dered into Blank Iambic , with new Interpretations and Illustrations . Remaining in Rome for some months and hearing no word from him , I wrote him a note to the following effect : " Having become convinced that the book ...
... Eneis ren- dered into Blank Iambic , with new Interpretations and Illustrations . Remaining in Rome for some months and hearing no word from him , I wrote him a note to the following effect : " Having become convinced that the book ...
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Page 32 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
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