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... fall of Troy : and these Vergil adopts , making many altera- tions and additions of his own . One great episode , his landing at Carthage , and the love and desertion of Dido , we have no means of tracing to any traditional source , and ...
... fall of Troy : and these Vergil adopts , making many altera- tions and additions of his own . One great episode , his landing at Carthage , and the love and desertion of Dido , we have no means of tracing to any traditional source , and ...
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... falls , like an ash - tree hacked and hewn and shaken falls at length . In studying these similes we see at once what ... fall of a tree ( 8 ) . These are resemblances such as would occur to any one : the thing compared is prominent , it ...
... falls , like an ash - tree hacked and hewn and shaken falls at length . In studying these similes we see at once what ... fall of a tree ( 8 ) . These are resemblances such as would occur to any one : the thing compared is prominent , it ...
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... fall of Troy , the Second book is superior to all the rest of the Aeneid , the aforesaid two books alone excepted . A spectacle at once sad and majestic , like the struggle of the doomed city , with the gods against it : the dramatic ...
... fall of Troy , the Second book is superior to all the rest of the Aeneid , the aforesaid two books alone excepted . A spectacle at once sad and majestic , like the struggle of the doomed city , with the gods against it : the dramatic ...
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... fall into bathos and commonplace : the ela- borate has a tendency to become turgid , stilted , over - artificial . Take as an instance of the simple style the well - known line of Wordsworth : - " Thoughts that do often lie too deep for ...
... fall into bathos and commonplace : the ela- borate has a tendency to become turgid , stilted , over - artificial . Take as an instance of the simple style the well - known line of Wordsworth : - " Thoughts that do often lie too deep for ...
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... falling from the height of heaven , to the ocean where it disappears : the night is passing away . II . ' And briefly to hear of Troy's last agony ' : breviter is the narrator's modesty : the tale lasts through the whole book . 13 ...
... falling from the height of heaven , to the ocean where it disappears : the night is passing away . II . ' And briefly to hear of Troy's last agony ' : breviter is the narrator's modesty : the tale lasts through the whole book . 13 ...
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ACCORDING TO ST Achilles Adparent Aeneas Aeneid Anchises animi arma atque Ave Maria Lane caelo Calchas Cambridge Warehouse Catalogue circum cloth coniunx Coroebus Creusa Crown 8vo Crown Octavo Danai Danaum Demy 8vo Demy Octavo deum dextra divom domus Edition Editor English Notes enim Fellow of Trinity flammae gods GOSPEL ACCORDING Greek haec Hector Homer horse Iamque Introduction and Notes ipse Iuppiter king Laocoon Laomedon Latin limina LL.D M. T. Ciceronis M.A. Price magna manu Maps meaning mihi moenia muros Mycenas Neoptolemus numina nunc Octavo omnes Oratio P. G. TAIT Pallas Panthus patria phrase poem poenas poet poetic Priam Price 25 Professor Pyrrhus quae Quarto quid quod Revised Roman sanguine sense St John's College summa tela Teucri tibi translation Trinity College Troia Trojans Troy Ulixes ultro University of Cambridge urbi verb Vergil Vergilian word
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