Selections from Virgil's GeorgicsUniversity Press, 1921 - 124 pages |
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Page xviii
... calls ' the divine country . ' It was for him as for our Blackmore a delight to watch the growth and expansion of every green thing . The lines about the shooting of the young vine - branch might for minute observation and sympathy have ...
... calls ' the divine country . ' It was for him as for our Blackmore a delight to watch the growth and expansion of every green thing . The lines about the shooting of the young vine - branch might for minute observation and sympathy have ...
Page xix
... call him " a man of the woods . " ( There is a legend , unconfirmed , that Virgil's mother , Magia , was a sister of the poet Lucretius3 . ) At the age of 12 his father took him to Cremona and seems to have resided with him until his ...
... call him " a man of the woods . " ( There is a legend , unconfirmed , that Virgil's mother , Magia , was a sister of the poet Lucretius3 . ) At the age of 12 his father took him to Cremona and seems to have resided with him until his ...
Page xxxii
... calls it the most beautiful thing on earth , the sense of this forced itself upon him . To a nature like his the misery of the poor crowded away in the many - storied insulae or ' blocks ' of the city and the lavish luxury of the rich ...
... calls it the most beautiful thing on earth , the sense of this forced itself upon him . To a nature like his the misery of the poor crowded away in the many - storied insulae or ' blocks ' of the city and the lavish luxury of the rich ...
Page xxxiii
... call a dim sense of sin , or at least of moral evil , such a feeling , though far less real and intense , as that which their prophets aroused from time to time in the Jewish people and one not unknown in the history of Hellas1 . So too ...
... call a dim sense of sin , or at least of moral evil , such a feeling , though far less real and intense , as that which their prophets aroused from time to time in the Jewish people and one not unknown in the history of Hellas1 . So too ...
Page xxxv
... calls " the glory of the divine country3 , " and is able to " lay his commands on the fields " which are his kingdom1 . But there is another aspect of the farmer's work which commends it to the poet . He holds that it , more than any ...
... calls " the glory of the divine country3 , " and is able to " lay his commands on the fields " which are his kingdom1 . But there is another aspect of the farmer's work which commends it to the poet . He holds that it , more than any ...
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Aeneid aether alta Aristaeus arvis atque Augustus auras beauty bees birds caeli caelo Caesar calls casia Cicero clause Columella corn death denotes Divine Douglas Dr Fowler earth Eclogues emphasize Epicurean Epicurus epithet ĕre etiam expression farmer feeling Gallus Georgics Gods grafted Greek haec heaven hinc honour human illa inis ipsa ipse Italy Keightley King laborem labour laeta land Latin lines living Lucr Lucretian Lucretius Mackail Maecenas means medio mollia Nature neque nocte numina nunc omnia Orpheus Ovid Parthia passage phrase plant plough poem poet poetry probably Procne quae rastris refers renders rerum river Roman Rome Royds saepe saepta says scilicet seems sense Servius silvae spirit Suetonius suggests tamen terrae Theocritus things Thrace tibi tree umbra Varro verb verse vine Virgil Warde Fowler wind word writing young
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Page xxviii - tis a passionate work!— yet wise and well; Well chosen is the spirit that is here; That Hulk which labours in the deadly swell, This rueful sky, this pageantry of fear!
Page xlv - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 20 - ... concidit et mixtum spumis vomit ore cruorem extremosque ciet gemitus. it tristis arator maerentem abiungens fraterna morte iuvencum, atque opere in medio defixa relinquit aratra.
Page 9 - Di patrii, indigetes, et Romule Vestaque mater, quae Tuscum Tiberim et Romana Palatia servas, hunc saltem everso iuvenem succurrere saeclo ne prohibete.
Page 8 - Auster, sol tibi signa dabit. solem quis dicere falsum audeat? ille etiam caecos instare tumultus saepe monet fraudemque et operta tumescere bella.
Page 17 - Et varios ponit fetus autumnus, et alte Mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis. Interea dulces pendent circum oscula nati, Casta pudicitiam servat domus, ubera vaccae Lactea demittunt, pinguesque in gramine laeto 5*5 Inter se adversis luctantur cornibus haedi.
Page 28 - Taenarias etiam fauces, alta ostia Ditis, et caligantem nigra formidine lucum ingressus manesque adiit regemque tremendum nesciaque humanis precibus mansuescere corda. 470 at cantu commotae Erebi de sedibus imis umbrae ibant tenues simulacraque luce carentum...
Page 15 - Iustitia excedens terris vestigia fecit. me vero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, accipiant, caelique vias et sidera monstrent, defectus solis varios lunaeque labores ; unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant, 48o quid tantum Oceano properent se tinguere soles hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Page 2 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Page 28 - quis et me," inquit, " miseram et te perdidit, Orpheu, quis tantus furor ? en iterum crudelia retro fata vocant conditque natantia lumina somnus. iamque vale : feror ingenti circumdata nocte invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas...