The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid: On the Loves of Dido and Aeneas |
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Page vii
... poet that Fanshawe can claim our attention . Nature meant him for a man of letters the circumstances of his time made him soldier , statesman , and diplomat , an honest and faithful servant of Charles I. and Charles II . , and ' a great ...
... poet that Fanshawe can claim our attention . Nature meant him for a man of letters the circumstances of his time made him soldier , statesman , and diplomat , an honest and faithful servant of Charles I. and Charles II . , and ' a great ...
Page ix
... poet and true lover of Virgil , a thing that has ill deserved more than two centuries of oblivion . It should be noted that Fanshawe was the first poet of his century - and indeed , I believe , the last - to use the Spenserian stanza ...
... poet and true lover of Virgil , a thing that has ill deserved more than two centuries of oblivion . It should be noted that Fanshawe was the first poet of his century - and indeed , I believe , the last - to use the Spenserian stanza ...
Page x
... poet for middle age than for youth . Above all , he has tried to follow Dryden's counsel , ' to avoid impropriety ' ( unless the quotation from James Smith be held an offence under that head ) ' and not to affect to be thought learned ...
... poet for middle age than for youth . Above all , he has tried to follow Dryden's counsel , ' to avoid impropriety ' ( unless the quotation from James Smith be held an offence under that head ) ' and not to affect to be thought learned ...
Page xiii
... poet's mind ? His subject may be the tragedy of Dido , but it is also the redemption of Aeneas and the saving of Rome . It is the triumph , by Heaven's aid , of pietas over selfish indulgence . In writing these notes I have consulted ...
... poet's mind ? His subject may be the tragedy of Dido , but it is also the redemption of Aeneas and the saving of Rome . It is the triumph , by Heaven's aid , of pietas over selfish indulgence . In writing these notes I have consulted ...
Page 90
... poet could have written . ( The close indeed is lamentable , with its three suicides , all for love , in half a page , but admirers of Marlowe may comfort themselves by remembering that the play was finished by Nash . ) 206. NUNC ...
... poet could have written . ( The close indeed is lamentable , with its three suicides , all for love , in half a page , but admirers of Marlowe may comfort themselves by remembering that the play was finished by Nash . ) 206. NUNC ...
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1817 LIBRARIES Aeneid Agathyrsi amor animum Anna Ascanius atque auras caelum caput Carthage Catullus Cerda CHIGAN Classical Review Conington curas Cynthus Dardanus death dictis DIDO AND AENEAS Dido's divum doth Dryopes Ennius epithet eyes Fama fame Fanshawe fata Fates Fourth Book Georgics gives Glover gods haec Heaven Henry hinc Iarbas illa inter ipsa ipse Italiam Iulus iussa Jove Juno lacrimas Libyae lines litora LOVES OF DIDO lumina Lyciae Mackail MICHIGAN mihi moenia morte night numina nunc omnis Ovid Oxford passage pectore Pentheus poet primum Professor quae quam queen quid quis quod quote reader regina Roman Rome Sargeaunt says seems Servius sidera Sir James Frazer sister somnos soror speech sword Sychaeus tantum tears terras thee things thou tibi translation Trojans Tyre Tyrian Tyrii umbras UNIVE unto urbem urbes Venus Virgil Virgilian viri volnus Warde Fowler words
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Page 48 - I, sequere Italiam ventis; pete regna per undas. 'Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, 'Supplicia hausurum scopulis, et nomine Dido 'Saepe vocaturum.
Page 48 - Nee tibi diva parens, generis nee Dardanus auctor, Perfide ; sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens Caucasus, Hyrcanaeque admorunt ubera tigres.
Page 22 - ... uritur infelix Dido totaque vagatur urbe furens qualis coniecta cerva sagitta, quam procul incautam nemora inter Cresia fixit 70 pastor agens telis liquitque volatile ferrum nescius, illa fuga silvas saltusque peragrat Dictaeos, haeret lateri letalis harundo.
Page 82 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.
Page 32 - ... illam Terra parens ira inritata deorum extremam, ut perhibent, Coeo Enceladoque sororem progenuit pedibus celerem et pernicibus alis, 180 monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui quot sunt corpore plumae, tot vigiles oculi subter (mirabile dictu), tot linguae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit auris.
Page 44 - Saltern si qua mihi de te suscepta fuisset ante fugam suboles, si quis mihi parvulus aula luderet Aeneas, qui te tamen ore referret, 330 non equidem omnino capta ac deserta viderer.
Page 50 - Ñeque te teneo neque dicta refello : 380 i, sequere Italiam ventis, pete regna per undas. Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, supplicia hausurum scopulis et nomine Dido saepe vocaturum. Sequar atris ignibus absens, et, cum frigida mors anima seduxerit artus, 385 omnibus umbra locis adero. Dabis, improbe, poenas. Audiam, et haec manes veniet mihi fama sub imos.
Page 32 - Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum : mobilitate viget virisque adquirit eundo, parva metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit.
Page 70 - Elissae, 610 accipite haec, meritumque malis advertite numen, et nostras audite preces. Si tangere portus infandum caput ac terris adnare necesse est, et sic fata lovis poscunt, hie terminus haeret : at bello audacis populi vexatus et armis, 615 finibus extorris, complexu avulsus luli, auxilium imploret, videatque indigna suorum funera ; nee, cum se sub leges pacis iniquae tradiderit, regno aut optata luce fruatur, sed cadat ante diem, mediaque inhumatus arena.
Page 62 - Quaeque lacus late liquidos, quaeque aspera dumis Rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti...