Bucolica, Georgica, et AeneisDavid H. Williams, 1842 - 600 pages |
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... Italy . His father was of low extraction and employment ; but he had received a small landed estate through his wife Maia , the daughter of an opulent farmer , and he was thereby enabled to give a good education to his son . Virgil was ...
... Italy . His father was of low extraction and employment ; but he had received a small landed estate through his wife Maia , the daughter of an opulent farmer , and he was thereby enabled to give a good education to his son . Virgil was ...
Page 347
... Italy was better suited to his delicate health , and the beautiful scenery of Campania gratified his taste , and suggested many an exquisite descriptive passage in his future poems . Naples with its vicinity was then a favorite retreat ...
... Italy was better suited to his delicate health , and the beautiful scenery of Campania gratified his taste , and suggested many an exquisite descriptive passage in his future poems . Naples with its vicinity was then a favorite retreat ...
Page 348
... Italy . The theme was equally pleasing to the emperor and the people , for it enabled the poet to flatter the former by tracing his parentage to the gods , and to confirm the popular belief , that the Romans were directly descended from ...
... Italy . The theme was equally pleasing to the emperor and the people , for it enabled the poet to flatter the former by tracing his parentage to the gods , and to confirm the popular belief , that the Romans were directly descended from ...
Page 354
... images forth his sorrow . " I have seen in Italy , " says Spence , " and on the Vatican hill near Rome in particular , a little arched cave , made by the shepherds of evergreens , not high enough to stand in ; 354 NOTES .
... images forth his sorrow . " I have seen in Italy , " says Spence , " and on the Vatican hill near Rome in particular , a little arched cave , made by the shepherds of evergreens , not high enough to stand in ; 354 NOTES .
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... Italy , very dangerous to mariners ; or rather into a monster , whose appearance is described in the text , who dwelt upon this rock , and devoured the unhappy voy- agers , that fell into her power . Among others , whose crew suffered ...
... Italy , very dangerous to mariners ; or rather into a monster , whose appearance is described in the text , who dwelt upon this rock , and devoured the unhappy voy- agers , that fell into her power . Among others , whose crew suffered ...
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Page 326 - Postquam acies videt Iliacas, atque agmina Turni, Alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram, Quae quondam in bustis aut culminibus desertis Nocte sedens, serum canit importuna per umbras ; Hanc versa in faciem, Turni se pestis ob ora 865 Fertque refertque sonans, clipeumque everberat alis.
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