P. Vergili Maronis opera. The works of Virgil, with a comm. by J. Conington (H. Nettleship). |
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... story which , supported as it is by the authority of the elder Pliny , there seems no reason to doubt , that Virgil himself , when dying , condemned his Aeneid to the flames . Rightly understood , that story seems to con- Gossrau ...
... story which , supported as it is by the authority of the elder Pliny , there seems no reason to doubt , that Virgil himself , when dying , condemned his Aeneid to the flames . Rightly understood , that story seems to con- Gossrau ...
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... story is credible enough , that Virgil was overtaken by death at the time when he was intending to spend three years in polishing and elaborating the Aeneid and we may imagine for ourselves what would be the value of three years of ...
... story is credible enough , that Virgil was overtaken by death at the time when he was intending to spend three years in polishing and elaborating the Aeneid and we may imagine for ourselves what would be the value of three years of ...
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... story when he is left alone as the one sur- viving protector of his country , the forlorn hope of those who sought to resist , during the sack of the city , the recognized leader of the Trojan migration . Worsted as he had been by ...
... story when he is left alone as the one sur- viving protector of his country , the forlorn hope of those who sought to resist , during the sack of the city , the recognized leader of the Trojan migration . Worsted as he had been by ...
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... had taken hold of the popular mind of Rome . He was not the interpreter of an ancient record , bound to minute and painstaking accuracy ; he was the reviver of an old story , which in its broad features INTRODUCTION . 9.
... had taken hold of the popular mind of Rome . He was not the interpreter of an ancient record , bound to minute and painstaking accuracy ; he was the reviver of an old story , which in its broad features INTRODUCTION . 9.
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... story . It is not till we come to the Athenian drama that we are able to trace definitely the operation of a really powerful agency upon Virgil's genius . Even there our losses are neither few nor unimportant ; we know that a ...
... story . It is not till we come to the Athenian drama that we are able to trace definitely the operation of a really powerful agency upon Virgil's genius . Even there our losses are neither few nor unimportant ; we know that a ...
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Page 483 - Aenean, alacris palmas utrasque tetendit, 685 effusaeque genis lacrimae, et vox excidit ore : ' venisti tandem, tuaque exspectata parenti vicit iter durum pie-tas ? datur ora tueri, nate, tua, et notas audire et reddere voces ? sic equidem ducebam animo rebarque futurum 690 tempora dinumerans, nee me mea cura fefellit. quas ego te terras et quanta per aequora vectum accipio ! quantis iactatum, nate, periclis ! quam metui, ne quid Libyae tibi regna nocerent ! ' ille autem : ' tua me, genitor, tua...
Page 21 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bowed their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.
Page 413 - Alciden ? — et mi genus ab love summo.' talibus orabat dictis arasque tenebat ; cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' sate sanguine divom, Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; > noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis ; \ sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 509 - Latini, et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem. sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes...
Page 151 - Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? DoCT. Do you mark that? LADY M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 480 - Hie manus ob patriam pugnando volnera passi, 660 quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, quique pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti, inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, quique sui memores alios fecere merendo, omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
Page 450 - ... quam vellent aethere in alto nunc et pauperiem et duros perferre labores ! fas obstat, tristique palus inamabilis unda adligat, et noviens Styx interfusa coercet.
Page 264 - Mene fugis ? Per ego has lacrimas dextramque tuam te — Quando aliud mihi iam miserae nihil ipsa reliqui — Per connubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos, Si bene quid de te merui, fuit aut tibi quicquam Dulce meum, miserere domus labentis et istam, Oro, si quis adhuc precibus locus, exue mentem.
Page 82 - immo age et a prima die, hospes, origine nobis insidias" inquit " Danaum casusque tuorum erroresque tuos ; nam te iam septima portat 755 omnibus errantem terris et fluctibus aestas.
Page 452 - Troi'us heros ut primum iuxta stetit adgnovitque per umbras obscuram, qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt, aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam, demisit lacrimas, dulcique adfatus amore est : 455 ' Infelix Dido, verus mihi nuntius ergo venerat exstinctam, ferroque extrema secutam?