P. Vergili Maronis opera: The Eclogues and GeorgicsWhittaker, 1881 - Agriculture |
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Page xii
... Roman Poets of the Republic , our language is singularly deficient in sketches of the history of classical literature . Here , as elsewhere , I have written rather for learners than for scholars : I have sought to popularize what ...
... Roman Poets of the Republic , our language is singularly deficient in sketches of the history of classical literature . Here , as elsewhere , I have written rather for learners than for scholars : I have sought to popularize what ...
Page xv
... Roman Hus- bandry ; " but my knowledge has , I fear , not been always sufficient to enable me to use them with effect . The grammar to which I have most frequently referred is Madvig's ; the lexicon , For- cellini's . The editions of ...
... Roman Hus- bandry ; " but my knowledge has , I fear , not been always sufficient to enable me to use them with effect . The grammar to which I have most frequently referred is Madvig's ; the lexicon , For- cellini's . The editions of ...
Page xxi
... Roman citizenship on its inhabitants . The whole career of the Dictator must , in fact , have deeply impressed the imagination of the young poet . The literary men of the previous generation had mostly espoused the cause of the republic ...
... Roman citizenship on its inhabitants . The whole career of the Dictator must , in fact , have deeply impressed the imagination of the young poet . The literary men of the previous generation had mostly espoused the cause of the republic ...
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... Roman history , but found the subject uncongenial to his then frame of mind.1 The Ciceronian age , barren of epic , tragedy , and comedy , had pro- duced only lyric , didactic , and learned poetry . Virgil's youth was passed under the ...
... Roman history , but found the subject uncongenial to his then frame of mind.1 The Ciceronian age , barren of epic , tragedy , and comedy , had pro- duced only lyric , didactic , and learned poetry . Virgil's youth was passed under the ...
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... Roman literature . It was they who , while enjoining a closer study of the Greek masterpieces in their length and breadth than had hitherto been given to them , formed the classical style of Roman poetry , and showed how close imitation ...
... Roman literature . It was they who , while enjoining a closer study of the Greek masterpieces in their length and breadth than had hitherto been given to them , formed the classical style of Roman poetry , and showed how close imitation ...
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Page 197 - ... diluit ; implentur fossae et cava flumina crescunt cum sonitu, fervetque fretis spirantibus aequor. ipse Pater media...
Page cx - And we shall not be far wrong, if we determine its date as about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century before Christ. 3. In the critical work on the Four Books, called ' Record of Remarks in the village of Yung1,' it is observed, ' The Analects, in my opinion, were made by the disciples, just like this record of remarks.
Page 212 - ... ergo inter sese paribus concurrere telis Romanas acies iterum videre Philippi; 490 nee fuit indignum superis bis sanguine nostro Emathiam et latos Haemi pinguescere campos.
Page 70 - Nunc ego (namque super tibi erunt qui dicere laudes, Vare, tuas cupiant et tristia condere bella) agrestem tenui meditabor harundine Musam.
Page 272 - Oceano properent se tingere soles hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet. sin...
Page 400 - 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 207 - Sin ortu quarto — namque is certissimus auctor — Pura, neque obtusis per coelum cornibus ibit, Totus et ille dies, et qui nascentur ab illo Exactum ad mensem, pluvia ventisque carebunt, 435 Votaque servati solvent in litore nautae Glauco et Panopeae et Inoo Melicertae.
Page 352 - Atque equidem, extremo ni iam sub fine laborum vela traham et terris festinem advertere proram, forsitan et pinguis hortos quae cura colendi ornaret canerem...