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Page iv
... honor of the first poetical version , in English , of the Æneid at all worthy the name must be accorded to Gawin Douglas , bishop of Dunkeld , Scotland , issued in 1553. This was , as it professed to be , a fairly close , and certainly ...
... honor of the first poetical version , in English , of the Æneid at all worthy the name must be accorded to Gawin Douglas , bishop of Dunkeld , Scotland , issued in 1553. This was , as it professed to be , a fairly close , and certainly ...
Page vii
... honored national poet , the late Professor Henry W. Longfellow , has certainly shown , in his charming " Evangeline , " and " Miles Standish , " that the English is not incapable of being harnessed to the classic hexameter , and ...
... honored national poet , the late Professor Henry W. Longfellow , has certainly shown , in his charming " Evangeline , " and " Miles Standish , " that the English is not incapable of being harnessed to the classic hexameter , and ...
Page xvii
... honor or morality ; but he simply ( though unsuccessful , as he himself must have felt ) strives to enlist in his readers ' minds , a counter sympathy for his hero , as a victim of fate . But it is a blemish on the hero's char- acter ...
... honor or morality ; but he simply ( though unsuccessful , as he himself must have felt ) strives to enlist in his readers ' minds , a counter sympathy for his hero , as a victim of fate . But it is a blemish on the hero's char- acter ...
Page xxx
... honor of their new enterprise , he is startled by a sepulchral sound from the ground , which proves to be that of Polydorus , son of Priam , who warns him to quit at once the murderous shore : 19-48 . The story and tragic death of ...
... honor of their new enterprise , he is startled by a sepulchral sound from the ground , which proves to be that of Polydorus , son of Priam , who warns him to quit at once the murderous shore : 19-48 . The story and tragic death of ...
Page xxxi
... honor shared by Dardanus ; and , recalling Cassandra's prophesies , coincides with the plan of sailing for Italy : 172-191 . They accordingly set sail , but a storm drives them out of their course , and lands them on an island of the ...
... honor shared by Dardanus ; and , recalling Cassandra's prophesies , coincides with the plan of sailing for Italy : 172-191 . They accordingly set sail , but a storm drives them out of their course , and lands them on an island of the ...
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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