P. Vergili Maronis opera. The works of Virgil, with a comm. by J. Conington (H. Nettleship). |
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... perhaps put in a plea for indulgence on account of the wide field over which the notes extend . A body of several thousands of propositions on a great variety of subjects can hardly fail to yield a large per- centage of error . JOHN ...
... perhaps put in a plea for indulgence on account of the wide field over which the notes extend . A body of several thousands of propositions on a great variety of subjects can hardly fail to yield a large per- centage of error . JOHN ...
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... perhaps conclude from the name of Maecenas not being mentioned in the Eclogues of Virgil , that he himself was not on those intimate terms with Maecenas which ripened into friendship , until after they were written . Horace , in one of ...
... perhaps conclude from the name of Maecenas not being mentioned in the Eclogues of Virgil , that he himself was not on those intimate terms with Maecenas which ripened into friendship , until after they were written . Horace , in one of ...
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... perhaps a question of language rather than of fact . The poetry of external nature has been wakened into new and intenser life , and the habits of the country are represented to us in poems , reminding us of the earliest and best days ...
... perhaps a question of language rather than of fact . The poetry of external nature has been wakened into new and intenser life , and the habits of the country are represented to us in poems , reminding us of the earliest and best days ...
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... perhaps a bucolic original . Corydon addresses Alexis in the language used by Polyphemus to Galatea ; boasts in the same way of his thousand sheep and his never- failing supply of milk : answers objections to his personal appearance in ...
... perhaps a bucolic original . Corydon addresses Alexis in the language used by Polyphemus to Galatea ; boasts in the same way of his thousand sheep and his never- failing supply of milk : answers objections to his personal appearance in ...
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... perhaps more original : yet even they owe something to Menalcas and Daphnis , as well as to one or two other Sicilian shepherds , not only in the antecedents , but in the contents of their songs ; and the eminence to which Corydon is ...
... perhaps more original : yet even they owe something to Menalcas and Daphnis , as well as to one or two other Sicilian shepherds , not only in the antecedents , but in the contents of their songs ; and the eminence to which Corydon is ...
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Page 356 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lowered, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 185 - Scylla capillo : quacumque illa levem fugiens secat aethera pennis, ecce inimicus atrox magno stridore per auras insequitur Nisus ; qua se fert Nisus ad auras, ilia levem fugiens raptim secat aethera pennis.
Page 303 - PROTINUS aerii mellis caelestia dona Exsequar. Hanc etiam, Maecenas, aspice partem. Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum, Magnanimosque duces totiusque ordine gentis Mores et studia et populos et proelia dicam.
Page 283 - ... snow melts Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Page 157 - Ante lovem nulli subigebant arva coloni; 125 ne signare quidem aut partiri limite campum fas erat: in medium quaerebant, ipsaque tellus omnia liberius nullo poscente ferebat.
Page 83 - Saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala — Dux ego vester eram — vidi cum matre legentem. Alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus ; Iam fragilis poteram ab terra contingere ramos. Ut vidi, ut perii ! ut me malus abstulit error ! Incipe Maenalios mecum, mea tibia, versus.
Page 59 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 253 - Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas, et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Page 356 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 65 - Namque canebat, uti magnum per inane coacta semina terrarumque animaeque marisque fuissent, et liquidi simul ignis ; ut his exordia primis omnia et ipse tener mundi concreverit orbis...