Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 33
... Empire and Holy Catholic Church , no less than as the creator of the more shadowy Tartarus in the sixth book of the Aeneid . Dante , in fact , by merging the poetic and the prophetic phases of Virgil's fame , and assuming them into the ...
... Empire and Holy Catholic Church , no less than as the creator of the more shadowy Tartarus in the sixth book of the Aeneid . Dante , in fact , by merging the poetic and the prophetic phases of Virgil's fame , and assuming them into the ...
Page 98
... empire , or the justify- ing of the ways of God to man . Hence we must expect in Virgil a mood very different from the joyousness of Homer . For the burden the Aeneid carries is no less than the history and destiny of Rome and , in a ...
... empire , or the justify- ing of the ways of God to man . Hence we must expect in Virgil a mood very different from the joyousness of Homer . For the burden the Aeneid carries is no less than the history and destiny of Rome and , in a ...
Page 124
... Empire . It is through Dido's curse that this distant age is con- jured up for us , just as in the sixth book a similar office is fulfilled by visions of the underworld , and in the eighth by the emblazonry of Aeneas ' shield . That ...
... Empire . It is through Dido's curse that this distant age is con- jured up for us , just as in the sixth book a similar office is fulfilled by visions of the underworld , and in the eighth by the emblazonry of Aeneas ' shield . That ...
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