AEneid: With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary, Books 1-6B.H. Sanborn & Company, 1908 |
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Page xvii
... Italy until Virgil's native place . twenty - one years after the poet's birth , but Vir- gil's natural sympathies , environment and edu- cation all tended to make him an enthusiastic Roman . The people of his native district ( the ...
... Italy until Virgil's native place . twenty - one years after the poet's birth , but Vir- gil's natural sympathies , environment and edu- cation all tended to make him an enthusiastic Roman . The people of his native district ( the ...
Page xviii
... Italy , the neighborhood of Naples . His father was of humble station , but a man of energy and integrity , who prospered in the world by keeping bees and investing in forest land . The second book of the Georgics is devoted to trees ...
... Italy , the neighborhood of Naples . His father was of humble station , but a man of energy and integrity , who prospered in the world by keeping bees and investing in forest land . The second book of the Georgics is devoted to trees ...
Page xxiii
... Italy . The Eclogues are permeated with an air of tender and romantic sentiment , of love of home and friends and country , of the dolce far niente of Italian life , of happy communion with nature in her many phases . Their fragrant ...
... Italy . The Eclogues are permeated with an air of tender and romantic sentiment , of love of home and friends and country , of the dolce far niente of Italian life , of happy communion with nature in her many phases . Their fragrant ...
Page xxiv
... Italy that Virgil sings of the husbandman's labor . Previous poets had sung for Rome ; Virgil was the first to sing for a united Italy . 99 1 12. If the Eclogues won general applause for Virgil , the Fourth Georgics placed him on a ...
... Italy that Virgil sings of the husbandman's labor . Previous poets had sung for Rome ; Virgil was the first to sing for a united Italy . 99 1 12. If the Eclogues won general applause for Virgil , the Fourth Georgics placed him on a ...
Page xxvi
... Italy . A fever , contracted at Megara , grew worse during the voyage , and ended in his death at Brundisium , a few days after landing , in the fifty- first of his age . year His final instructions to his executors . 15. Before leaving ...
... Italy . A fever , contracted at Megara , grew worse during the voyage , and ended in his death at Brundisium , a few days after landing , in the fifty- first of his age . year His final instructions to his executors . 15. Before leaving ...
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Page 482 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 274 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 484 - And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 174 - Venisti tandem, tuaque exspectata parenti " Vicit iter durum pietas ? datur ora tueri, " Nate, tua, et notas audire et reddere voces ? " Sic equidem ducebam animo' rebarque futurum, 690 " Tempora dinumerans, nee me mea cura fefellit. " Quas ego te terras et quanta per aequora vectum " Accipio ! quantis jactatum, nate, periclis ! " Quam metui, ne quid Libyae tibi regna nocerent ! " Ille autem : " Tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago, 695 " Saepius occurrens, haec limina tendere adegit.
Page 455 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate : Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep ; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream ; fierce Phlegethon, 580 Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 456 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Page 489 - Of all that is most beauteous — imaged there In happier beauty ; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams ; Climes which the Sun, who sheds the brightest day Earth knows, is all unworthy to survey. Yet there the Soul shall enter which hath earned That privilege by virtue
Page 106 - ... nox erat, et placidum carpebant fessa soporem corpora per terras, silvaeque et saeva quierant aequora, cum medio volvuntur sidera lapsu, cum tacet omnis ager, pecudes, pictaeque volucres, quaeque lacus late liquidos, quaeque aspera dumis rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti.
Page 104 - ... in somnis ferus Aeneas, semperque relinqui sola sibi, semper longam incomitata videtur ire viam et Tyrios deserta quaerere terra, Eumenidum veluti demens videt agmina Pentheus et solem geminum et duplices se ostendere Thebas, 470 aut Agamemnonius scaenis agitatus Orestes, armatam facibus matrem et serpentibus atris cum fugit ultricesque sedent in limine Dirae.
Page lx - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...