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Page 520 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitât molem, et magno se corpore miscet 'Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum 'Et quae marmóreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Page 288 - Perfide; sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens 'Caucasus, Hyrcanaeque admorunt ubera tigres. 'Nam quid dissimulo ? aut quae me ad maiora reservo ? 'Num fletu ingemuit nostro?
Page 544 - Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris ; altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, 895 sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes...
Page 112 - Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora. Diffugimus visu exsangues. Illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt, et primum parva duorum Corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque Implicat, et miseros morsu depascitur artus. Post ipsum, auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem, Corripiunt, spirisque ligant ingentibus: et jam Bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum Terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Page xl - Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession of so many beauties of speech, it were desirable to know. That he gleaned from authors. obscure as well as eminent, what he thought brilliant or useful, and preserved it all in a regular collection...
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