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... verse was stiff and un - English , just as Voss's similar translation is stiff and un - German . The work was sure not to be read except by scholars . I was not deterred ; I persevered and labored on ; tried , like a snake or worm ...
... verse was stiff and un - English , just as Voss's similar translation is stiff and un - German . The work was sure not to be read except by scholars . I was not deterred ; I persevered and labored on ; tried , like a snake or worm ...
Page xiv
... verse , and the soporific effect of Milton's interminable decasyllabics . Cheered by the first results of this me- thod , I went much further ; I abandoned the old mea- sures and set about to make new ; and , after some trials , fell ...
... verse , and the soporific effect of Milton's interminable decasyllabics . Cheered by the first results of this me- thod , I went much further ; I abandoned the old mea- sures and set about to make new ; and , after some trials , fell ...
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... verse 17 . SIC VOLVERE PARCAS . The Parcæ are here said VOL- VERE ( i . e . volvere vices , make events roll on , or after each other ) , in the same sense as Jupiter is said to do so , verse 266 , and III . 375. There is no reference ...
... verse 17 . SIC VOLVERE PARCAS . The Parcæ are here said VOL- VERE ( i . e . volvere vices , make events roll on , or after each other ) , in the same sense as Jupiter is said to do so , verse 266 , and III . 375. There is no reference ...
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... verse 209 ; " data fata secutus , " verse 386 ; " fata deum vestras exquirere terras imperiis egere suis " ( En . VII . 239 ) ; " fatisque vocantia regna " ( En . V. 656 ) ; & c .; through all which expressions runs the one constant ...
... verse 209 ; " data fata secutus , " verse 386 ; " fata deum vestras exquirere terras imperiis egere suis " ( En . VII . 239 ) ; " fatisque vocantia regna " ( En . V. 656 ) ; & c .; through all which expressions runs the one constant ...
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... verse 594 of En . VI . it is also not a whirlwind , but the whirl of the just mentioned thunderbolt . So understood , 1st , the passage is according to Virgil's usual manner , the latter part of the line explaining and defining the ...
... verse 594 of En . VI . it is also not a whirlwind , but the whirl of the just mentioned thunderbolt . So understood , 1st , the passage is according to Virgil's usual manner , the latter part of the line explaining and defining the ...
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Page 13 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
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Page 54 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 106 - Notre chair change bientôt de nature : notre corps prend un autre nom; même celui de cadavre, dit Tertullien, parce qu'il nous montre encore quelque forme humaine, ne lui demeure pas longtemps : il devient un je ne sais quoi, qui n'a plus de nom dans aucune langue...
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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.
Page 91 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing...
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