The Works of Virgil, Volume 2J. Swan, 1806 - Aeneas (Legendary character) |
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... fear it might be turned against me , that I plead for the pre - eminence of epic poetry because I have taken some pains in translating Virgil , if this were the first time that I had delivered my opinion in this dispute , But I have ...
... fear it might be turned against me , that I plead for the pre - eminence of epic poetry because I have taken some pains in translating Virgil , if this were the first time that I had delivered my opinion in this dispute , But I have ...
Page xxii
... fear of being forced . Yet I may safely affirm for our great author , ( as men of good sense are generally honest ) that he was still of republican principles in his heart . Secretosque pios , his dantem jura Catonem . I think , I need ...
... fear of being forced . Yet I may safely affirm for our great author , ( as men of good sense are generally honest ) that he was still of republican principles in his heart . Secretosque pios , his dantem jura Catonem . I think , I need ...
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... fear or ignorance , he goes back into the midst of his enemies to find her , and leaves not his pursuit until her ghost appears to forbid his farther search . I will say nothing of his duty to his father while he lived , his sorrow for ...
... fear or ignorance , he goes back into the midst of his enemies to find her , and leaves not his pursuit until her ghost appears to forbid his farther search . I will say nothing of his duty to his father while he lived , his sorrow for ...
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... fear was not for himself , but for his people . And what can give a sovereign a better commendation , or recommend a hero more to the affection of the reader ? They were threatened with a tempest ; and he wept he was promised Italy ...
... fear was not for himself , but for his people . And what can give a sovereign a better commendation , or recommend a hero more to the affection of the reader ? They were threatened with a tempest ; and he wept he was promised Italy ...
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... fear , both in relation to himself and to his sub- jects . I think our adversaries can carry this ar- gument no farther , unless they tell us that he ought to have had more confidence in the pro- mise of the gods : but how was he ...
... fear , both in relation to himself and to his sub- jects . I think our adversaries can carry this ar- gument no farther , unless they tell us that he ought to have had more confidence in the pro- mise of the gods : but how was he ...
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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.