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Page ix
... Italy . The education of Vergil appears to have been commenced at Cremona , from whence , on assuming the manly gown , in his sixteenth year , he was transferred to the charge of new teachers at Milan . After pursuing his studies ...
... Italy . The education of Vergil appears to have been commenced at Cremona , from whence , on assuming the manly gown , in his sixteenth year , he was transferred to the charge of new teachers at Milan . After pursuing his studies ...
Page x
... Italian cities , with the district of country pertaining to each . The cities thus treated were those which had espoused the side of Brutus . For this the unhappy occupants of the adja- cent country were forced to give up their ...
... Italian cities , with the district of country pertaining to each . The cities thus treated were those which had espoused the side of Brutus . For this the unhappy occupants of the adja- cent country were forced to give up their ...
Page xi
... Italian . It is unfortunate , too , that Vergil has given these poems a still more foreign air by the use of Greek in- stead of Italian names . But this was the taste of the times . He labors , also , under another disadvantage , as ...
... Italian . It is unfortunate , too , that Vergil has given these poems a still more foreign air by the use of Greek in- stead of Italian names . But this was the taste of the times . He labors , also , under another disadvantage , as ...
Page xii
... Italians to their primitive but long - neglected pursuit of agriculture . In point of versification this is the most finished of the works of our poet , and , indeed , as Addison remarks , it may be regarded as in this respect the most ...
... Italians to their primitive but long - neglected pursuit of agriculture . In point of versification this is the most finished of the works of our poet , and , indeed , as Addison remarks , it may be regarded as in this respect the most ...
Page xiii
... Italians on these subjects , and he has contrived to make them attractive by asso- ciating them with wonderful beauty of ... Italy . Vergil was easily persuaded by his friend and patron to return with him immediately to Rome , which ...
... Italians on these subjects , and he has contrived to make them attractive by asso- ciating them with wonderful beauty of ... Italy . Vergil was easily persuaded by his friend and patron to return with him immediately to Rome , which ...
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Page xxviii - Aspice, venture laetantur ut omnia saeclo. 0 mini tarn longae maneat pars ultima vitae, Spiritus et, quantum sat erit tua dicere facta. Non me carminibus vincet nee Thracius Orpheus, 55 Nee Linus ; huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.
Page xxxvi - Tu mihi, seu magni superas iam saxa Timavi, sive oram Illyrici legis aequoris (en erit umquam ille dies, mihi cum liceat tua dicere facta? en erit ut liceat totum mihi ferre per orbem sola Sophocleo tua carmina digna cothurno?
Page xxi - At nos hinc alii sitientis ibimus Afros pars Scythiam et rapidum Cretae veniemus Oaxen et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos. en umquam patrios longo post tempore finis pauperis et tuguri congestum caespite culmen post aliquot mea regna videns mirabor aristas?
Page 88 - Charybdis 420 obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos sorbet in abruptum fluctus rursusque sub auras erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.
Page 54 - infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem, Troianas ut opes et lamentabile regnum eruerint Danai, quaeque ipse miserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui. quis talia fando Myrmidonum Dolopumve aut duri miles Ulixi temperet a lacrimis ? et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat, suadentque cadentia sidera somnos.