Virgil: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid I-VIHarper & Brothers, 1834 - Agriculture |
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... Achilles , bears all before him , and shines more and more as the tumult increases : Virgil , calmly daring , like Æneas , appears undisturbed in the midst of the action , disposes all about him , and conquers with tranquillity . Or ...
... Achilles , bears all before him , and shines more and more as the tumult increases : Virgil , calmly daring , like Æneas , appears undisturbed in the midst of the action , disposes all about him , and conquers with tranquillity . Or ...
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... Achilles shall be sent to Troy . 45 " When now to vigorous manhood thou art come , O'er seas no more the labouring keel shall roam ; No more to distant realms shall traffic hie : Each land each produce shall itself supply . O'er the vex ...
... Achilles shall be sent to Troy . 45 " When now to vigorous manhood thou art come , O'er seas no more the labouring keel shall roam ; No more to distant realms shall traffic hie : Each land each produce shall itself supply . O'er the vex ...
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... Achilles Statius , in his commentary on Catullus , tells us , that on ancient coins and marbles Syl- vanus is represented , bearing a cvoress - tree plucked up by the roots . VIR . VOL . I. - G 35 40 Fruits and fair seasons from thy ...
... Achilles Statius , in his commentary on Catullus , tells us , that on ancient coins and marbles Syl- vanus is represented , bearing a cvoress - tree plucked up by the roots . VIR . VOL . I. - G 35 40 Fruits and fair seasons from thy ...
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... Achilles . " The Pleiads , Hyads , with the northern team , And great Orion's more refulgent beam , To which , around the axle of the sky , The Bear , revolving , points his golden eye , Still shines exalted on th ' ethereal plain , Nor ...
... Achilles . " The Pleiads , Hyads , with the northern team , And great Orion's more refulgent beam , To which , around the axle of the sky , The Bear , revolving , points his golden eye , Still shines exalted on th ' ethereal plain , Nor ...
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... Achilles is drawn in tragedy , he is taken with those warts , and moles , and hard features , by those who represent him on the stage , or he is no more Achilles ; for his creator Homer has so described him . Yet even thus he appears a ...
... Achilles is drawn in tragedy , he is taken with those warts , and moles , and hard features , by those who represent him on the stage , or he is no more Achilles ; for his creator Homer has so described him . Yet even thus he appears a ...
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Page 143 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 133 - He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; And he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 56 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Page 271 - Then with their sharpen'd fangs their limbs and bodies grind. The wretched father, running to their aid With pious haste, but vain, they next invade ; Twice round his waist their winding volumes roll'd ; And twice about his gasping throat they fold. The priest thus doubly choked — their crests divide, And towering o'er his head in triumph ride.
Page 13 - Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces.
Page 208 - Turnus, which concludes the action, there need not be supposed above ten months of intermediate time; for arriving at Carthage in the latter end of summer, staying there the winter following, departing thence in the very beginning of the spring, making a short abode in Sicily the second time, landing in Italy, and making the war, may be reasonably judged the business but of ten months.
Page 223 - I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age.
Page 263 - All were attentive to the godlike man, When from his lofty couch he thus began: 'Great queen, what you command me to relate, Renews the sad remembrance of our fate...
Page 271 - His holy fillets the blue venom blots; His roaring fills the flitting air around. Thus, when an ox receives a glancing wound, He breaks his bands, the fatal altar flies, And with loud bellowings breaks the yielding skies. Their tasks...
Page 263 - At last, having been before advised by Hector's ghost, and now by the appearance of his mother Venus, he is prevailed upon to leave the town, and settle his household gods in another country. In order to this, he carries off his father on his shoulders, and leads his little son by the hand, his wife following him behind. When he comes to the place appointed for the general rendezvous, he finds a great confluence of people, but misses his wife, whose ghost afterwards appears to him, and tells him...