Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the EneisMeinhold and Sons, 1853 - 586 pages |
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... immediately preceding TYRIAS ARCES , merely for variety , and to avoid the repetition of the term " Carthago , " already employed at verse 17 . SIC VOLVERE PARCAS . The Parcæ are here said VOL- VERE ( i . e . volvere vices , make events ...
... immediately preceding TYRIAS ARCES , merely for variety , and to avoid the repetition of the term " Carthago , " already employed at verse 17 . SIC VOLVERE PARCAS . The Parcæ are here said VOL- VERE ( i . e . volvere vices , make events ...
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... immediately preceding lines to rivet the attention of Eolus upon his prey , would in the words INCUTE VIM VENTIS , abruptly call off his attention from it in order to fix it upon the winds , in order to inform him what he had first to ...
... immediately preceding lines to rivet the attention of Eolus upon his prey , would in the words INCUTE VIM VENTIS , abruptly call off his attention from it in order to fix it upon the winds , in order to inform him what he had first to ...
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... immediately rushed forth . * Compare En . II . 259 where Sinon " laxat claustra , " undoes the fastenings , and immediately " patefactus This , as I have found since the above commentary was written ( in 1852 ) , has been actually done ...
... immediately rushed forth . * Compare En . II . 259 where Sinon " laxat claustra , " undoes the fastenings , and immediately " patefactus This , as I have found since the above commentary was written ( in 1852 ) , has been actually done ...
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... immediately preceding semi - clause , HIS UNDA DEHISCENS TERRAM INTER FLUCTUS APERIT which would give the jejune meaning found in the passage by La Cerda and the other expositors " Vident in imo arenam æstuantem ac ferventem , " but ...
... immediately preceding semi - clause , HIS UNDA DEHISCENS TERRAM INTER FLUCTUS APERIT which would give the jejune meaning found in the passage by La Cerda and the other expositors " Vident in imo arenam æstuantem ac ferventem , " but ...
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... immediately . preceding VOLANS . Neither is secundus currus , currus felix , or currus propitius ; such expressions bearing no intelligible meaning at all . Neither , finally , is currus secundus , currus obsequens Trojanis , for the ...
... immediately . preceding VOLANS . Neither is secundus currus , currus felix , or currus propitius ; such expressions bearing no intelligible meaning at all . Neither , finally , is currus secundus , currus obsequens Trojanis , for the ...
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Alfieri Anchises Andromache ARMA ATQUE auras Burmann CAELUM caput Cerda clause Comm commentators Compare Creusa Daniel Heinsius Dido Dido's Dresden Eneas Eneas's Eneis enim Epist erat etiam exactly express FATA FATO FERRO fluctus Foggini Forbiger Gudian haec Heinsius Heroid Heyne ILLA instar inter interpretation IPSE Juno Jupiter Ladewig Leipzig littora LUMINA manu meaning Medicean Metam mihi Modena morte neque numen numine NUNC object observe omnes OVID Pallas passage pater PELAGO Petrarchian Pierius PLIN poet quae quam quod quoted reader reading Roman sciz secondly sense sentence Servius SIDERA similar Sinon SINUS STAT Statius tamen tantum temple term terra Theb Thirdly tibi Timavus trabes Trojans Troy UMBRAS UMBRIS UNDA venti verb VERO vers verse VIAM VIII Virg Virgil Virgil's usual Voss Wagner whole winds words δε
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Page 5 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 27 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers...
Page 27 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow. Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.
Page 86 - Apparet domus intus et atria longa patescunt, apparent Priami et veterum penetralia regum; armatosque vident stantes in limine primo.
Page 76 - For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 98 - Notre chair change bientôt de nature : notre corps prend un autre nom; même celui de cadavre, dit Tertullien, parce qu'il nous montre encore quelque forme humaine, ne lui demeure pas longtemps : il devient un je ne sais quoi, qui n'a plus de nom dans aucune langue...
Page 13 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed...
Page 27 - Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. And such she was; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased.
Page 1 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna : Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
Page 26 - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios...