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... whofe excellence pecu- liarly confifts in the graces of diction is far more difficult to be tranflated , than a work where fenti- ment , or paffion , or imagination , is chiefly dif- played . So that I fear we can receive but a faint ...
... whofe excellence pecu- liarly confifts in the graces of diction is far more difficult to be tranflated , than a work where fenti- ment , or paffion , or imagination , is chiefly dif- played . So that I fear we can receive but a faint ...
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... con- queror , Virgil believed it would be the beft fervice he could then do his countrymen , to endeavour to foften their minds towards fo mild and gentle a 5 mafter mafter as Auguftus , out of whofe hands it was vi PREFATORY DEDICATION .
... con- queror , Virgil believed it would be the beft fervice he could then do his countrymen , to endeavour to foften their minds towards fo mild and gentle a 5 mafter mafter as Auguftus , out of whofe hands it was vi PREFATORY DEDICATION .
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In Latin & English. The Aeneid Virgil. mafter as Auguftus , out of whofe hands it was impoffible for them to extort the power he had ufurped . And that fome change in the constitu- tion of Rome was abfolutely neceffary , feems to be the ...
In Latin & English. The Aeneid Virgil. mafter as Auguftus , out of whofe hands it was impoffible for them to extort the power he had ufurped . And that fome change in the constitu- tion of Rome was abfolutely neceffary , feems to be the ...
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... Whofe ftrong defence proud towering cities fhare , While roaring lions whirl thy mighty car . 5. Hic , ubi disječtas moles , avulfaque faxis Saxa vides , mixtoque undantem pulvere fumum , Neptunus muros , magnoque emota tridenti ...
... Whofe ftrong defence proud towering cities fhare , While roaring lions whirl thy mighty car . 5. Hic , ubi disječtas moles , avulfaque faxis Saxa vides , mixtoque undantem pulvere fumum , Neptunus muros , magnoque emota tridenti ...
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... whofe authenticity Rućus hath taken great pains to explode and deftroy . What can best be depended upon feemeth to be as follows . PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO was born on the fifteenth VOL . I. B day day of October in the year of Rome 684 ...
... whofe authenticity Rućus hath taken great pains to explode and deftroy . What can best be depended upon feemeth to be as follows . PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO was born on the fifteenth VOL . I. B day day of October in the year of Rome 684 ...
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Page 29 - ... all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer...
Page 433 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Page 423 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Page 114 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fading together ; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 19 - Augustan age. It is remarkable that he is commended by some of the ancients themselves, for the strength of his imagination as to this particular, though in general that is not his character...
Page 300 - Optima torvae Forma bovis, cui turpe caput, cui plurima cervix, Et crurum tenus a mento palearia pendent ; Tum longo nullus lateri modus ; omnia magna, Pes etiam ; et camuris hirtae sub cornibus aures.
Page 5 - Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when to examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Page 398 - I shall give one instance, out of a multitude of this nature that might be found in the Georgics, where the reader may...
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