Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 129
... vision of heroes surpassing even Homer's " vision of fair women " in the eleventh book of the Odyssey . The ideal , contemporaneous presence in Hades and Elysium of Greek , Trojan , and Roman celebrities , the dead and the unborn ...
... vision of heroes surpassing even Homer's " vision of fair women " in the eleventh book of the Odyssey . The ideal , contemporaneous presence in Hades and Elysium of Greek , Trojan , and Roman celebrities , the dead and the unborn ...
Page 152
... visions to men asleep . The other ,, gleaming with polished ivory , gives exit to the false . It is by the ivory gate , incongruously enough , that Anchises dismisses his two visitors . Yet that incongruity is softened if we conclude ...
... visions to men asleep . The other ,, gleaming with polished ivory , gives exit to the false . It is by the ivory gate , incongruously enough , that Anchises dismisses his two visitors . Yet that incongruity is softened if we conclude ...
Page 157
... vision . The vague grandeur of omens has revealed the inner significance , the philosophy , of Rome's destiny . The visions of Elysium have shown the brilliant lives that are to glow in her service . But the vividness of pictorial art ...
... vision . The vague grandeur of omens has revealed the inner significance , the philosophy , of Rome's destiny . The visions of Elysium have shown the brilliant lives that are to glow in her service . But the vividness of pictorial art ...
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