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... Carthage , he be- holds the pictures of his friends , who sacrificed their lives in defence of their country . He de- plores the lamentable end of his pilot Palinurus , the untimely death of young Pallas his confede- rate , and the rest ...
... Carthage , he be- holds the pictures of his friends , who sacrificed their lives in defence of their country . He de- plores the lamentable end of his pilot Palinurus , the untimely death of young Pallas his confede- rate , and the rest ...
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... Carthage , contra- dict their former accusation of him , for being always crying , compassionate , and effeminately sensible of those misfortunes which befell others . They give him two contrary characters ; but Vir- gil makes him of a ...
... Carthage , contra- dict their former accusation of him , for being always crying , compassionate , and effeminately sensible of those misfortunes which befell others . They give him two contrary characters ; but Vir- gil makes him of a ...
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... Carthage . He knew he could not please the Romans better , or oblige them more to patronize his poem , than by disgracing the foundress of that city . He shews her ungrateful to the memory of her first hus- band , doting on a stranger ...
... Carthage . He knew he could not please the Romans better , or oblige them more to patronize his poem , than by disgracing the foundress of that city . He shews her ungrateful to the memory of her first hus- band , doting on a stranger ...
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... Carthage . One who imitates Boccalini , says that Virgil was accused before Apollo for this error . The god soon found that he was not able to defend his favourite by reason ; for the case was clear he therefore gave this middle ...
... Carthage . One who imitates Boccalini , says that Virgil was accused before Apollo for this error . The god soon found that he was not able to defend his favourite by reason ; for the case was clear he therefore gave this middle ...
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... Carthage , to draw truth out of fiction after so probable a manner , with so much beauty , and so much for the honour of his country , was proper only to the divine wit of Maro ; and Tasso , in one of his discourses , ad- mires him for ...
... Carthage , to draw truth out of fiction after so probable a manner , with so much beauty , and so much for the honour of his country , was proper only to the divine wit of Maro ; and Tasso , in one of his discourses , ad- mires him for ...
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abode Acestes Æneas Æneid altars Anchises arms Ascanius bear behold betwixt blood breast cæsura Carthage coast command coursers Crete Creüsa crown'd dare death descend design'd Dido dire divine Eneïs Eryx Ev'n ev'ry eyes fame fatal fate father fear fire fix'd flames fleet flood foes force friends fun'ral fury ghost goddess gods grace Grecian hands haste heav'n Helenus hero Homer honour Ilioneus Italy Jove Julius Cæsar Juno Jupiter labours land Libyan light limbs lordship mighty mind Misenus mix'd Mnestheus neïs night numbers o'er oars Ovid Pallas pass'd pious poem poet pow'r pray'rs Priam's prince promis'd Pyrrhus queen race rage rais'd Resolv'd rest rising rites royal sacred sails Ségrais seis'd Sergestus sev'n shades shew ships shore sight Simoïs sire skies soul stood sword tempest temple thee thou toss'd tow'rs town translation trembling Trojan Troy Turnus Tyrian unhappy verse Virgil vows wand'ring winds woods words wretched
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Page 253 - Sent to the realm that Saturn rul'd of old; Born to restore a better age of gold. Afric and India shall his pow'r obey; He shall extend his propagated sway Beyond the solar year, without the starry way, Where Atlas turns the rolling heav'ns around, And his broad shoulders with their lights are crown'd.
Page liii - Dido; dictates a letter for her just before her death to the ungrateful fugitive, and very unluckily for himself, is for measuring a sword with a man so much superior in force to him on the same subject. I think I may be judge of this, because I have translated both. The famous author of the Art of Love has nothing of his own ; he borrows all from a greater master in his own profession, and which is worse, improves nothing which he finds. Nature fails him, and being forced to his old shift, he has...
Page 241 - These are the realms of unrelenting Fate; And awful Rhadamanthus rules the state: He hears and judges each committed crime; Inquires into the manner, place, and time. The conscious wretch must all his acts reveal (Loth to confess, unable to conceal), From the first moment of his vital breath, To his last hour of unrepenting death. 770 Straight o'er the guilty ghost, the Fury shakes The sounding whip, and brandishes her snakes, And the pale sinner, with her sisters, takes.
Page i - A HEROIC POEM, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform.
Page 68 - So shines, renew'd in youth, the crested snake, Who slept the winter in a thorny brake, And, casting off his slough when spring returns, Now looks aloft, and with new glory burns...
Page 258 - His son, or one of his illustrious name? How like the former, and almost the same ! Observe the crowds that compass him around; All gaze, and all admire, and raise a shouting sound : But hov'ring mists around his brows are spread, And night, with sable shades, involves his head.
Page cx - It is true he might have easily found more, and then my translation had been more perfect. Two other worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me and gave me the life of Virgil, the two prefaces — to the Pastorals and the Georgics — and all the arguments in prose to the whole translation; which perhaps has caused a report that the two first poems are not mine.
Page lix - Virgil, must be deprived of that glory ? Is Versailles the less a new building, because the 'architect of that palace hath imitated others which were built before it ? Walls, doors, and windows, apartments, offices, rooms of convenience and magnificence, are in all great houses. So descriptions, figures, fables, and the rest, must be in all heroic poems ; they are the common materials of poetry...
Page 54 - 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. With both his hands he labours at the knots ; His holy fillets the blue venom blots...
Page 34 - Conscious of worth, requite its own desert! In you this age is happy, and this earth; And parents more than mortal gave you birth. While rolling rivers into seas shall run, And round the space of heav'n the radiant sun; While trees the mountain-tops with shades supply, Your honour, name, and praise shall never die.