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Page iv
... death interrupted his labors . It was , however , subsequently taken up and completed , in the same style and meter , by Thomas Twyne , M. D. , including the Vegian addition , now no longer admitted as worthy a place by the side of ...
... death interrupted his labors . It was , however , subsequently taken up and completed , in the same style and meter , by Thomas Twyne , M. D. , including the Vegian addition , now no longer admitted as worthy a place by the side of ...
Page xiv
... death , and has maintained its position as such among scholars of all the civilized nations of Europe during all the past Christian centuries , certainly entitles it to a very high rank as a work of poetic art . Probably the works of no ...
... death , and has maintained its position as such among scholars of all the civilized nations of Europe during all the past Christian centuries , certainly entitles it to a very high rank as a work of poetic art . Probably the works of no ...
Page xvi
... that led the poet to insist , as his dying request , that at his death the Eneid should be destroyed ? Whether this be so or not , Virgil nowhere in the poem attempts to justify Æneas in his conduct in the case xvi PREFACE .
... that led the poet to insist , as his dying request , that at his death the Eneid should be destroyed ? Whether this be so or not , Virgil nowhere in the poem attempts to justify Æneas in his conduct in the case xvi PREFACE .
Page xviii
... death , beget an intense sympathy for her . We pity her ; and , though her untimely end is seemingly the natural sequence of her highly dramatic cast of character , yet no one can read the story of her experiences , and remain ...
... death , beget an intense sympathy for her . We pity her ; and , though her untimely end is seemingly the natural sequence of her highly dramatic cast of character , yet no one can read the story of her experiences , and remain ...
Page xxiii
... death - struggle in defense of a city being laid in ashes . Does he see fit to describe games , as in the Fifth Book ? What reporter of modern sports could be more technically accurate ? And what pen , in prose or verse , has ever ...
... death - struggle in defense of a city being laid in ashes . Does he see fit to describe games , as in the Fifth Book ? What reporter of modern sports could be more technically accurate ? And what pen , in prose or verse , has ever ...
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Acestes Æneas Æneid æther afar altars Anchises Apollo armor arms Ascanius Ausonian battle bespeaks billows blood body bosom breezes buckler Camilla Carthage cavern charger chariot chieftains comrades Creüsa Danaäns Dardan Dardanian death deep deities Dido earth Eneas Euryalus Evander exclaims eyes fates father Æneas Faunus flames fleet flits foemen forests fortune goddess gods gold grove hast hath heaven Helenus helmet Hence hero hexameter hither honor Ilian Italia Iülus Juno Jupiter Juturna land Latins Latium lofty mansions Meanwhile Messapus Mezentius midst mighty Mnestheus monarch mother mountains night Nisus o'er ocean offspring once Pallas Pergamus Phoebus Phrygian pity plains Priam ramparts right hand river round rushing Rutulians sabre sails Sergestus shalt shores shoulders sister slaughter slumber soul Spake spear spirit squadron steeds summons surges Tarchon temples Teucrans thee thine thou threshold Trojan Turnus Tyrrhenian uttered valor Venus Virgil wafted war-spear warfare warriors weapons winds wound