The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid, المجلد 3J. Dodsley, 1778 |
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... poems had each a plain and entire story , to convey as perfect a moral : And in this he is juftly efteemed excellent . The Roman poet could make no im- provement here : The Greek was compleat and perfect ; fo that the patrons of Virgil ...
... poems had each a plain and entire story , to convey as perfect a moral : And in this he is juftly efteemed excellent . The Roman poet could make no im- provement here : The Greek was compleat and perfect ; fo that the patrons of Virgil ...
الصفحة 2
... poem . And in this ignorance , the fucceeding epic writers , following a poem whose genius they did not un- derstand , wrote worse than if they had only taken Homer , and his fimpler plan , for their direction . A great modern poet ...
... poem . And in this ignorance , the fucceeding epic writers , following a poem whose genius they did not un- derstand , wrote worse than if they had only taken Homer , and his fimpler plan , for their direction . A great modern poet ...
الصفحة 3
... poem , become effential to the fubject . Thus the choice of princes and heroes for his perfonages , which were , before , only used to grace the scene , now confti- tute the nature of the action † : And the machinery of the gods , and ...
... poem , become effential to the fubject . Thus the choice of princes and heroes for his perfonages , which were , before , only used to grace the scene , now confti- tute the nature of the action † : And the machinery of the gods , and ...
الصفحة 4
... poem written in the refined and enlightened age of Rome * , followed the marvellous of Homer fo clofely . But this key to the Æneis not only clears up a great many paffages obnoxious to the critics , but adds an in- finite beauty to a ...
... poem written in the refined and enlightened age of Rome * , followed the marvellous of Homer fo clofely . But this key to the Æneis not only clears up a great many paffages obnoxious to the critics , but adds an in- finite beauty to a ...
الصفحة 7
... poets imagined , from the PASSION of Laius , but from the WISDOM of legiflators * . " Such • Vol . ii . p . 218 , 219 , B 4 Brian . Edit . was was the friendship , our poet would here reprefent , fixth Book of VIRGIL's ENEIS .
... poets imagined , from the PASSION of Laius , but from the WISDOM of legiflators * . " Such • Vol . ii . p . 218 , 219 , B 4 Brian . Edit . was was the friendship , our poet would here reprefent , fixth Book of VIRGIL's ENEIS .
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Aceftes adeo Aeneas Æneid aethere againſt Anchifes ancient arma arms atque Auguftus autem cafus circumftance Dardanus defcribed defcription deûm dreadful effe Eneas enim Eryx etiam facred faid fame fatis fays feems fhade fhall fhews fhield fhining fhore fhould fide fight firft firſt fkies flain flew flood folemn fome fubject fuch funt fuper fuppofe gods haec hell hero himſelf Hinc Homer hunc Iliad inter ipfe juventus laft Latian Latinus Latio Latium Livy manu menfis Mezentius mighty mihi Mneftheus moenia moft moſt muſt myfteries nunc o'er obferves occafion omnes omnis paffage pater poem poet poeta prefent prince procul quae quam quibus quod reafon reprefented rife rites Roman Rome ſhall ſkies ſky ſpread ſtate Statius tamen Tartarus terga thefe theſe thofe thoſe thro tibi tow'rs Trojan Turnus uſed Virgil whofe youth
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الصفحة 371 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
الصفحة 258 - I believe very many readers have been shocked at that ludicrous prophecy which one of the harpies pronounces to the Trojans in the third book ; namely, that before they had built their intended city they should be reduced by hunger to eat their very tables.
الصفحة 48 - Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead : Succeeding vanities she still regards, And though she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of ombre, after death survive.
الصفحة 404 - Sabaei. ipsa videbatur ventis regina vocatis vela dare et laxos iam iamque immittere funis. illam inter caedes pallentem morte futura fecerat ignipotens undis et lapyge ferri, 710 contra autem magno maerentem corpore Nilum pandentemque sinus et tota veste vocantem caeruleum in gremium latebrosaque flumina victos.
الصفحة 170 - ... ante ora parentum : quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo lapsa cadunt folia, aut ad terram gurgite ab alto 310 quam multae glomerantur aves, ubi frigidus annus trans pontum fugat, et terris immittit apricis.
الصفحة 214 - ... 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...
الصفحة 259 - They immediately took the Hint, says the Historian, and concluded the Prophecy to be fulfilled. As Virgil did not think it proper to omit so material a Particular in the History of...
الصفحة 69 - JEneas, by the advice of one of his generals, and a vision of his father, builds a city for the women, old men, and others, who were either unfit for war, or weary of the voyage, and sails for Italy. Venus procures of Neptune a safe voyage for him and all his men, excepting only his pilot...
الصفحة 210 - 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.
الصفحة 289 - 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.