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Page xvi
... heart , the poet touches the chords of softer feeling , or expresses the violent workings of passion with equal power . Moral suffering is delineated with touching effect , and the strife of opposite emotions , the urgency of terror ...
... heart , the poet touches the chords of softer feeling , or expresses the violent workings of passion with equal power . Moral suffering is delineated with touching effect , and the strife of opposite emotions , the urgency of terror ...
Page xvii
... heart ever pulsing with human kindness , and warm with responsive human sympathies . We love him , notwithstanding his glaring fault , for the love he ever shows to those at home , his father , wife , son ; and our sympathy is , from ...
... heart ever pulsing with human kindness , and warm with responsive human sympathies . We love him , notwithstanding his glaring fault , for the love he ever shows to those at home , his father , wife , son ; and our sympathy is , from ...
Page xix
... heart of his countrymen , to have their origin , as a nation , carried back to so grand , as well as high , an antiquity ; whilst antiquarians then , and ever since , have seen in it a value greater to them than the mere romance of semi ...
... heart of his countrymen , to have their origin , as a nation , carried back to so grand , as well as high , an antiquity ; whilst antiquarians then , and ever since , have seen in it a value greater to them than the mere romance of semi ...
Page xx
... at least , as long as genuine poetry finds a responsive chord in the human heart , or there exists a cultured mind to appreciate poetic monuments . Hence another characteristic , and one which has contributed perhaps XX PREFACE .
... at least , as long as genuine poetry finds a responsive chord in the human heart , or there exists a cultured mind to appreciate poetic monuments . Hence another characteristic , and one which has contributed perhaps XX PREFACE .
Page xxi
... heart , giving his writings an individuality unmistakable , and an attractiveness which minds susceptible of appreciating at once purity of thought and beauty of style combined , instinctively recognize and prize . This feature , his ...
... heart , giving his writings an individuality unmistakable , and an attractiveness which minds susceptible of appreciating at once purity of thought and beauty of style combined , instinctively recognize and prize . This feature , his ...
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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