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Արդյունքներ 43–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 76
... realm , that bore Your brother Eryx , the Sicilian shore , * If right I judge , whofe eyes with constant care Have watch'd the heav'ns , retracing every star . I fee , reply'd the prince , thy fruitless pain , That long has ftruggled ...
... realm , that bore Your brother Eryx , the Sicilian shore , * If right I judge , whofe eyes with constant care Have watch'd the heav'ns , retracing every star . I fee , reply'd the prince , thy fruitless pain , That long has ftruggled ...
Էջ 77
... realms again ; With feafts their fainting fpirits he restor❜d ; nd rural viands crown'd the generous board . Now the diminish'd ftars had fled away efore the glories of the dawning day . is friends Æneas fummon'd from the coast ; hen ...
... realms again ; With feafts their fainting fpirits he restor❜d ; nd rural viands crown'd the generous board . Now the diminish'd ftars had fled away efore the glories of the dawning day . is friends Æneas fummon'd from the coast ; hen ...
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... realms of Italy with thee ; Or mighty Tyber's rolling ftreams explore , The facred flood , that bathes th ' Aufonian shore . Scarce had he faid , when , beauteous to behold ! From the deep tomb , with many a fhining fold , An azure ...
... realms of Italy with thee ; Or mighty Tyber's rolling ftreams explore , The facred flood , that bathes th ' Aufonian shore . Scarce had he faid , when , beauteous to behold ! From the deep tomb , with many a fhining fold , An azure ...
Էջ 119
... to defcribe fo difficult and unamiable a subject as the in crease and abating of this fire ; Stupa.- -udo fub robore vivit Examine likewise all the following lines . If ftill to feek the Latian realm debates , Or Book 5 . 119 OF VIRGIL .
... to defcribe fo difficult and unamiable a subject as the in crease and abating of this fire ; Stupa.- -udo fub robore vivit Examine likewise all the following lines . If ftill to feek the Latian realm debates , Or Book 5 . 119 OF VIRGIL .
Էջ 120
In English Verse Virgil. If ftill to feek the Latian realm debates , Or here to fix , forgetful of the fates . Then Nautes , fam'd for wisdom and for age , ( For Pallas taught the venerable fage , 910 What great events the fates and gods ...
In English Verse Virgil. If ftill to feek the Latian realm debates , Or here to fix , forgetful of the fates . Then Nautes , fam'd for wisdom and for age , ( For Pallas taught the venerable fage , 910 What great events the fates and gods ...
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Æneas Æneid againſt Anchifes ancient arms Auguftus beauteous Cæfar Ceres chief circumftance courfers defcent defcribed defcription defign Dido dire divine dreadful Euripides Evander fable facred faid fame fate Faunus fays fecond feems fhade fhall fhews fhield fhining fhore fhould fide fierce fight fire firft firſt flain flames flew flood folemn fome foul ftand ftate ftill ftream fubject fublime fuch fuppofe glorious goddeſs gods golden bough hell hero himſelf Homer honours Iliad initiated Jove juft Jupiter king laft laſt Latian Latium leaſt Livy Mezentius mighty moft moſt muſt myfteries Neptune o'er obferves occafion paffage pafs perfon plain Plato poem poet pow'rs prefent prince race rage rais'd raiſe reafon reprefented rife riſe rites Roman Rome round ſcene Servius ſhall ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſpread ſtate Statius Tarchon Tartarus thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tow'rs Trojan Troy Turnus uſed Virgil whofe youth
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Էջ 149 - A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Էջ 287 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Էջ 208 - ... and tradition. The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him, and circumstanced them after his own manner, to make them appear the more natural, agreeable, or surprising.
Էջ 187 - ... a particular beauty, which I do not know that any one has taken notice of. The list which he has there drawn up was in general to do honour to the Roman name, but more particularly to compliment Augustus. For this reason Anchises, who shows .¿Eneas most of the rest of his descendants in the same order that they were to make their appearance in the world...
Էջ 184 - Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state.
Էջ 259 - Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding more, The hoarfe rough verfe mould like the torrent roar.
Էջ 208 - We find, however, that he has interwoven, in the course of his fable, the principal particulars, which were generally believed among the Romans, of jEneas's voyage and settlement in Italy.
Էջ 30 - This people, like the rest of mankind, in their descriptions of the other world, used to copy from something they were well acquainted with in this. In their funeral rites, which, as we observed, was...
Էջ 12 - Orpheus is said to go to hell by the power of his harp: that is, in quality of lawgiver; the harp being the known symbol of his laws, by which he humanized a rude and barbarous people. So again, in the lives of Hercules and Bacchus, we have the true history, and the fable founded on it, blended and recorded together.
Էջ 232 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.