Aeneid I-VIWhittaker & Company, 1884 |
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Page xxi
... feeling which made Virgil wish to rob the world of his greatest poem was simply the mortification of leaving in a state of comparative imperfection a work which he had intended to be his masterpiece . To imagine that he was sensible of ...
... feeling which made Virgil wish to rob the world of his greatest poem was simply the mortification of leaving in a state of comparative imperfection a work which he had intended to be his masterpiece . To imagine that he was sensible of ...
Page xxiii
... feeling of the poet , though the vision which he there professes to see does not correspond in its details with that which his better genius afterwards revealed to him . Greece was to be conquered , and con- quered with her own weapons ...
... feeling of the poet , though the vision which he there professes to see does not correspond in its details with that which his better genius afterwards revealed to him . Greece was to be conquered , and con- quered with her own weapons ...
Page xxvi
... feeling of admiration and disapproval which the old men on express in their hour of respite ; he may have partaken of the repulsion with which , as she tells us in her wail over Hector looked upon by all in Troy ; but as his eye fell ...
... feeling of admiration and disapproval which the old men on express in their hour of respite ; he may have partaken of the repulsion with which , as she tells us in her wail over Hector looked upon by all in Troy ; but as his eye fell ...
Page xxvii
... feeling or dramatic propriety was not concerned . Virgil doubtless held himself bound to follow Homer's narrative only so far as that narrative had taken hold of the popular mind of Rome . He was not the interpreter of an ancient record ...
... feeling or dramatic propriety was not concerned . Virgil doubtless held himself bound to follow Homer's narrative only so far as that narrative had taken hold of the popular mind of Rome . He was not the interpreter of an ancient record ...
Page xxix
... feeling and conduct to the gods , his father , and his son . Heyne , who had a soul to admire and reverence both Homer and Virgil , remarks on the dignity and beauty of Aeneas's address to Evander . His faithfulness to the memory of ...
... feeling and conduct to the gods , his father , and his son . Heyne , who had a soul to admire and reverence both Homer and Virgil , remarks on the dignity and beauty of Aeneas's address to Evander . His faithfulness to the memory of ...
Common terms and phrases
Aeneas Aeneid aequora Aesch Anchises animi Apoll Apollo appears arma Ascanius atque auras caelum Carthage Catull Cerda circum comp Creusa Crown 8vo Dardanus Deiphobus Dict Dido Dido's Donatus doubtless edition enim Ennius epithet explained expression fata Fcap foll Forb Forc fragm give Gossrau Greek haec Heins Helenus Henry Heyne Heyne remarks hinc Homeric imitation inter ipse Latin litora Livy Lucr manu mean mentioned mihi Mnestheus moenia notion numine nunc omnis parallel passage pater perhaps Pierius poet poetical Priam Priscian probably quae quam quid quod quoted reading reference Ribbeck rightly Roman says seems sense Serv Servius Sibyl Small post 8vo story suppose terra thinks tibi tion Translated Troia Trojans Troy Ulysses urbem Varro Venus Virg Virg.'s Virgil vols Wagn words Wund δὲ καὶ τε
Popular passages
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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