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Page xi
... thing to find that a particular reading which seems necessary to the sense has probably some better support than mere con- 1 ' [ This statement has been shewn to be incorrect by Mr. Madan : see vol . i . ( fourth edition ) p . cxii ...
... thing to find that a particular reading which seems necessary to the sense has probably some better support than mere con- 1 ' [ This statement has been shewn to be incorrect by Mr. Madan : see vol . i . ( fourth edition ) p . cxii ...
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... thing not to be avoided or dexterously concealed , but to be openly and boldly embraced ; and it was the hitherto unapproached excellence of the model which was held to constitute the glory of the success . Even in his own day there ...
... thing not to be avoided or dexterously concealed , but to be openly and boldly embraced ; and it was the hitherto unapproached excellence of the model which was held to constitute the glory of the success . Even in his own day there ...
Page xxxviii
... thing , yet we feel that neither Homer nor Virgil would have of commencing a poem with it , as the reader must be made to syr in the object of the muster before the muster - roll can have any to him . The incidents of the voyage have ...
... thing , yet we feel that neither Homer nor Virgil would have of commencing a poem with it , as the reader must be made to syr in the object of the muster before the muster - roll can have any to him . The incidents of the voyage have ...
Page xxxix
... thing to behold the sun , " deep as is its truth and pathos , does not affect us as we expect to be affected by an incident in an epic poem . It is too modern for Homer ; Virgil might have owned the feeling , but he would have been ...
... thing to behold the sun , " deep as is its truth and pathos , does not affect us as we expect to be affected by an incident in an epic poem . It is too modern for Homer ; Virgil might have owned the feeling , but he would have been ...
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... thing as " ad claustra fremunt . " The more reasonable thing seems to be to say that Virg . uses imagery principally taken from the race- horse and the prison , but without intend- ing any one connected or uniform series of metaphors ...
... thing as " ad claustra fremunt . " The more reasonable thing seems to be to say that Virg . uses imagery principally taken from the race- horse and the prison , but without intend- ing any one connected or uniform series of metaphors ...
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
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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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