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Page xv
... mind . It would doubt- less have been more complete in its details , and more highly artistic in its finish throughout , if the poet had lived to give it , as was his earnest desire , his final touches . But as it is , it commands the ...
... mind . It would doubt- less have been more complete in its details , and more highly artistic in its finish throughout , if the poet had lived to give it , as was his earnest desire , his final touches . But as it is , it commands the ...
Page xvi
... mind . The character and history of Dido afford conclusive proof , that if Virgil had chosen dramatic writing for his province , he might have equalled or surpassed the noblest tragedies of the Greeks . " In comparing Virgil with Homer ...
... mind . The character and history of Dido afford conclusive proof , that if Virgil had chosen dramatic writing for his province , he might have equalled or surpassed the noblest tragedies of the Greeks . " In comparing Virgil with Homer ...
Page xvii
... minds , a counter sympathy for his hero , as a victim of fate . But it is a blemish on the hero's char- acter , clinging , in the readers ' memory , to him through all his subsequent career , in spite of desire to banish it . But with ...
... minds , a counter sympathy for his hero , as a victim of fate . But it is a blemish on the hero's char- acter , clinging , in the readers ' memory , to him through all his subsequent career , in spite of desire to banish it . But with ...
Page xx
... , 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 .
... , 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
... minds susceptible of appreciating at once purity of thought and beauty of style combined , instinctively recognize and ... mind are the pulse - throbbings , which impart a healthful life to his poetry throughout . Eneas , with the excep ...
... minds susceptible of appreciating at once purity of thought and beauty of style combined , instinctively recognize and ... mind are the pulse - throbbings , which impart a healthful life to his poetry throughout . Eneas , with the excep ...
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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