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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... verse was stiff and un - English , just as Voss's similar translation is stiff and un - German . The work was sure not to be read except by scholars . I was not deterred ; I persevered and labored on ; tried , like a snake or worm ...
... verse was stiff and un - English , just as Voss's similar translation is stiff and un - German . The work was sure not to be read except by scholars . I was not deterred ; I persevered and labored on ; tried , like a snake or worm ...
Page xiv
... verse , and the soporific effect of Milton's interminable decasyllabics . Cheered by the first results of this me- thod , I went much further ; I abandoned the old mea- sures and set about to make new ; and , after some trials , fell ...
... verse , and the soporific effect of Milton's interminable decasyllabics . Cheered by the first results of this me- thod , I went much further ; I abandoned the old mea- sures and set about to make new ; and , after some trials , fell ...
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... verse 17 . SIC VOLVERE PARCAS . The Parcæ are here said VOL- VERE ( i . e . volvere vices , make events roll on , or after each other ) , in the same sense as Jupiter is said to do so , verse 266 , and III . 375. There is no reference ...
... verse 17 . SIC VOLVERE PARCAS . The Parcæ are here said VOL- VERE ( i . e . volvere vices , make events roll on , or after each other ) , in the same sense as Jupiter is said to do so , verse 266 , and III . 375. There is no reference ...
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... verse 209 ; " data fata secutus , " verse 386 ; " fata deum vestras exquirere terras imperiis egere suis " ( En . VII . 239 ) ; " fatisque vocantia regna " ( En . V. 656 ) ; & c .; through all which expressions runs the one constant ...
... verse 209 ; " data fata secutus , " verse 386 ; " fata deum vestras exquirere terras imperiis egere suis " ( En . VII . 239 ) ; " fatisque vocantia regna " ( En . V. 656 ) ; & c .; through all which expressions runs the one constant ...
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... verse 594 of En . VI . it is also not a whirlwind , but the whirl of the just mentioned thunderbolt . So understood , 1st , the passage is according to Virgil's usual manner , the latter part of the line explaining and defining the ...
... verse 594 of En . VI . it is also not a whirlwind , but the whirl of the just mentioned thunderbolt . So understood , 1st , the passage is according to Virgil's usual manner , the latter part of the line explaining and defining the ...
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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...