Aeneidea, Or, Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis: With a Personal Collation of All the First Class Mss. ...1873 |
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... exactly representing the prototype , and those critics who have put forward the readings of this facsimile as the readings of the Medicean MS . , have not infrequently , as I shall have occasion to show in the course of these Remarks ...
... exactly representing the prototype , and those critics who have put forward the readings of this facsimile as the readings of the Medicean MS . , have not infrequently , as I shall have occasion to show in the course of these Remarks ...
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... Exactly so ; and why not ? what more likely than that he should follow his own precedent ? Most men are fond of doing what they did before ; driven by similar causes , fall into action similar to their previous . So much is this the ...
... Exactly so ; and why not ? what more likely than that he should follow his own precedent ? Most men are fond of doing what they did before ; driven by similar causes , fall into action similar to their previous . So much is this the ...
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... exactly where they found it , for every one who enters the temple to stumble over . I have better hopes of you ; despair less of the future destiny of the Aeneis . Ye will restore the fragment to its place , and no longer suffer the ...
... exactly where they found it , for every one who enters the temple to stumble over . I have better hopes of you ; despair less of the future destiny of the Aeneis . Ye will restore the fragment to its place , and no longer suffer the ...
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... exactly the book for them , the best book in the world except the last they read in the same manner . The poet's object too is gained , he has succeeded delectare , edition after edition of his book is called for , let who will , be at ...
... exactly the book for them , the best book in the world except the last they read in the same manner . The poet's object too is gained , he has succeeded delectare , edition after edition of his book is called for , let who will , be at ...
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... exactly in the man- ner you have so vividly pictured ; nevertheless I , for one , will never use my book as a looking - glass wherein to contemplate my own face ; my book shall be to me a telescope and microscope , where- with to bring ...
... exactly in the man- ner you have so vividly pictured ; nevertheless I , for one , will never use my book as a looking - glass wherein to contemplate my own face ; my book shall be to me a telescope and microscope , where- with to bring ...
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Aeneas Aeneas's AENEIDEA Aeneis Aeolus aequor alto ARMA VIRUMQUE arva atque autem avena casus Cerda Compare Conington Dido enim erat etiam exactly expression fatis fistula Flacc fluctus Forbiger fuit genus Georg Georgic GRACILI gurges gurgite haec Heins Heroid Heyne ILLE EGO inter ipse ITALIAM Juno Juno's Jupiter Latio latus LECT less Lucan manu Manut mare meaning mihi Neptune neque numen numine nunc omnes omnia Ovid parchm passage Pierius pietas poem poet Priscian quae quam quid quod quoque quoted quum reader rerum Ribb Ribbeck Roman saxa Senec sense Servius sinus Stat sunt tamen terras Theb Thiel tibi Timavo Trojans unda venti vento Venus verse Virg Virgil Virgilian virum volvere Voss Wagn Wagner words Zumpt γαρ δε εν και μεν τε
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Page lxxxv - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Page 153 - And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of hell ; say first, what cause Moved our grand parents in that happy state, Favored of heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress his will For one restraint, lords of the world besides?
Page 153 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 335 - Broke by the jutting land, on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is formed beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats. Down through the crannies of the living walls, The crystal streams descend in murmuring falls.
Page 744 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 352 - ... 80 haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem inpulit in latus : ac venti velut agmine facto, qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant. incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus.
Page 153 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 336 - Hauled from beneath the violated shade, And on the sacred pile the royal victim laid. His right hand held his bloody falchion bare, His left he twisted in his hoary hair ; Then, with a speeding thrust, his heart he found: The lukewarm blood came rushing through the wound, And sanguine streams distained the sacred ground.
Page 335 - Fronte sub adversa scopulis pendentibus antrum, Intus aquae dulces vivoque sedilia saxo, Nympharum domus.
Page vi - Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the Aeneis'.