P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica et GeorgicaMacmillan, 1922 - 396 pages |
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... gives to shadows the strength and substance of truth . The advance in power is marked . Let those who wish to realise it compare the Lament for Daphnis or the Complaint of Gallus , with the matchless pathos of the description of the ...
... gives to shadows the strength and substance of truth . The advance in power is marked . Let those who wish to realise it compare the Lament for Daphnis or the Complaint of Gallus , with the matchless pathos of the description of the ...
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... give pleasure . It is true that agriculture was the only form of industry which the Roman nobles thought compatible with Roman dignity , 1 and that neither Cato the Censor nor Varro , the most learned of the Romans , disdained to write ...
... give pleasure . It is true that agriculture was the only form of industry which the Roman nobles thought compatible with Roman dignity , 1 and that neither Cato the Censor nor Varro , the most learned of the Romans , disdained to write ...
Page xxvi
... give colouring by local allusion : the traveller does not merely cross the sea but he sails by Pontus ' and hazards the straits of oyster - bearing Abydos ' I. 207 ; the lentil is the Pelusiac lentil ' 1. 288 ; withes come from Ameria 1 ...
... give colouring by local allusion : the traveller does not merely cross the sea but he sails by Pontus ' and hazards the straits of oyster - bearing Abydos ' I. 207 ; the lentil is the Pelusiac lentil ' 1. 288 ; withes come from Ameria 1 ...
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... give life to the scene there are the sturdy labouring bulls , the ploughman bent over his work , and the ploughshare glistening in the spring sunshine . The picture is complete , and its effect is the more powerful because of the moral ...
... give life to the scene there are the sturdy labouring bulls , the ploughman bent over his work , and the ploughshare glistening in the spring sunshine . The picture is complete , and its effect is the more powerful because of the moral ...
Page xxxv
... gives the rein to his own imagination , but to those in which he reproduces the practical rules or statements of his authorities , for it is in these that his technical excellence is best seen . As these passages are rarely noted it is ...
... gives the rein to his own imagination , but to those in which he reproduces the practical rules or statements of his authorities , for it is in these that his technical excellence is best seen . As these passages are rarely noted it is ...
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adeo aetas alta amor Amyntas Apollo Aratus Aristaeus atque bees caeli caelo canibus carmina circum clause Columella Conington contrast Corydon crops cura Damoetas Daphnis deity describes earth Eclogue emphasising emphatic etiam flumina Gallus Georgics give Greek haec heaven Hendiadys herbas Hesiod hinc illa illis illum Iollas ipsa ipse Latin Lucr Lucretius Lycidas magis Mantua marks means mecum Menalcas mihi mollia multa namque neque nunc omnes omnia passage pastoral pecori phrase pingues pinguis plant plough poem poet poetry Pollio primus quae quam quid quis quod quoque rastris reference render Roman saepe says seems semper sense Servius shepherds silvae sing song spondees suggests tamen tantum terra Theocr Theocritus thou tibi trees ulmos umbra Varro verb verse vines Virgil winter word δὲ καὶ
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Page 352 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 114 - And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
Page xxxix - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd ; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Page 9 - Musae, paulo maiora canamus ! non omnes arbusta iuvant humilesque myricae ; si canimus silvas, silvae sint consule dignac. ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas ; magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna ; iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.
Page 10 - At simul heroum laudes et facta parentis iam legere et quae sit poteris cognoscere virtus, molli paulatim flavescet campus arista, incultisque rubens pendebit sentibus uva, et durae quercus sudabunt roscida mella.
Page 147 - The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb'd their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still bark'd and howl'd Within unseen.
Page 8 - Qui te, Pollio, amat, veniat quo te quoque gaudet; mella fluant illi, ferat et rubus asper amomum.
Page 4 - At mecum raucis, tua dum vestigia lustro, sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis. Nonne fuit satius, tristes Amaryllidis iras atque superba pati fastidia? nonne Menalcan, 15 quamvis ille niger, quamvis tu candidus esses? O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori; alba ligustra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur.
Page 32 - Cele'i vilisque supellex, 165 arbuteae crates et mystica vannus lacchi. Omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones, si te digna manet divini gloria ruris. Continuo in silvis magna vi flexa domatur in burim et curvi formam accipit ulmus aratri.
Page 104 - Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair...