Aeneis; Bucolica; Georgica: The Greater Poems of VirgilGinn & Company, 1898 |
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The Greater Poems of Virgil Virgil. of herdsmen ( Bovкóλo ) , and hence are called Bucolics . These were first published under the title of Eclogues ( ekλoyaí , selections ) . In form they are chiefly imitations , often translations , of ...
The Greater Poems of Virgil Virgil. of herdsmen ( Bovкóλo ) , and hence are called Bucolics . These were first published under the title of Eclogues ( ekλoyaí , selections ) . In form they are chiefly imitations , often translations , of ...
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... Hence he only wrote ten of these charming pieces . It is not surprising that Virgil should have thus chosen the models of his first poetic essays . Nor is it strange that these efforts should have at once met with appreciation and favor ...
... Hence he only wrote ten of these charming pieces . It is not surprising that Virgil should have thus chosen the models of his first poetic essays . Nor is it strange that these efforts should have at once met with appreciation and favor ...
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... Hence the famous ten years ' siege and the destruction of the sacred city . - About the tale of Troy had gathered a vast body of legendary adventure , contained in the " Cyclic Poets , " the festal Odes , the Attic Tragedies , and ...
... Hence the famous ten years ' siege and the destruction of the sacred city . - About the tale of Troy had gathered a vast body of legendary adventure , contained in the " Cyclic Poets , " the festal Odes , the Attic Tragedies , and ...
Page xxxvii
... Hence the first thing to do is to read and feel poetry as having a distinct form of verse . Beginners are often deterred from attempting the metrical reading of strange forms of verse by the supposed difficulties of the metre , but it ...
... Hence the first thing to do is to read and feel poetry as having a distinct form of verse . Beginners are often deterred from attempting the metrical reading of strange forms of verse by the supposed difficulties of the metre , but it ...
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... Hence another foot must begin with -ae , and the rest of the line can only be the regular close . Hence the reading must be A'rma vi rúmque canó Troiaé qui | prímus ab | óris . So with the second line , Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque ...
... Hence another foot must begin with -ae , and the rest of the line can only be the regular close . Hence the reading must be A'rma vi rúmque canó Troiaé qui | prímus ab | óris . So with the second line , Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque ...
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actly Æneas Æneid aequor amor Anchises ancient animi Apollo āre ārī arma ārum atque ātum ātus auras āvī caelo cæsura cere circum cura Dardanus decl dere Dido divine duced Eclogue ēre famous fata Greek haec haud hence hendiadys hinc inter ipse itum Latin Latium Less ex Less exactly litora Lycidas manus Masc mihi moenia Neut numine nunc omnes omnia one's ōnis orig ōris ōrum Ovid pater perf perh plur Poetically Priam prob pron quae quam quid quis quod reduced rites river Roman root Rutulian sense sidera stem akin subst tamen tantum terra things Thrace tibi Trojan Troy umbra unda urbe urbem verb Virgil word
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Page 67 - In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 388 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 97 - Oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with Sandals gray, He touched the tender stops of various Quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay...
Page 296 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable Shape. The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, * But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting.
Page 94 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Page 61 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 67 - Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head...
Page 158 - 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 xvii - Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores : Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.
Page 94 - Ay me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?