The Quarterly Review, Volume 101William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1857 - English literature |
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Page 92
... Virgil is , upon the whole , a stage procession of gorgeous figures ; but it has no consistent or veracious relation to any idea of the future or unseen state actually felt among mankind . Yet there was such an idea at least in the ...
... Virgil is , upon the whole , a stage procession of gorgeous figures ; but it has no consistent or veracious relation to any idea of the future or unseen state actually felt among mankind . Yet there was such an idea at least in the ...
Page 97
... Virgil should have chosen to recall the line αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ πόσιος καὶ ἐδήτυος ἐξ ἔρον ἔντο in his own verse ' Postquam exemta fames , et amor compressus edendi ; ' † but it is still more singular that instead of saying that hunger and ...
... Virgil should have chosen to recall the line αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ πόσιος καὶ ἐδήτυος ἐξ ἔρον ἔντο in his own verse ' Postquam exemta fames , et amor compressus edendi ; ' † but it is still more singular that instead of saying that hunger and ...
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... Virgil did not try or care to understand the character , or to be faithful to his master . We will next give instances of Virgil's utter carelessness of either mythological or moral con- sistency . In the Eighth Eneid Æneas and Anchises ...
... Virgil did not try or care to understand the character , or to be faithful to his master . We will next give instances of Virgil's utter carelessness of either mythological or moral con- sistency . In the Eighth Eneid Æneas and Anchises ...
Contents
Henry Bradbury with full descriptions of their different | 57 |
Odyssea London 1849 | 80 |
in the Crimea By an Officer on the Staff With | 168 |
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