The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid, Volume 4J. Dodsley, 1778 |
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... these the fable or fubject is compofed ; which is no more than the action , and its ornaments , or episodes ; and which are fo much the more beautiful , as they fall in more na- turally with the fubject . It is the very effence of ...
... these the fable or fubject is compofed ; which is no more than the action , and its ornaments , or episodes ; and which are fo much the more beautiful , as they fall in more na- turally with the fubject . It is the very effence of ...
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... these words purfu'd her as she fled : Bright beauteous goddess of the various bow , What pow'r dispatch'd thee to the world below ? What splendors open to my dazzled eyes ! What floods of glory burst from all the skies ! And lo ! the ...
... these words purfu'd her as she fled : Bright beauteous goddess of the various bow , What pow'r dispatch'd thee to the world below ? What splendors open to my dazzled eyes ! What floods of glory burst from all the skies ! And lo ! the ...
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... these ; Each fhip fhall launch , a goddess of the seas ; And with her fifter Nereids fhall divide The filver waves , and bound along the tide . This faid ; the lord of thunder feal'd the vow By his dread brother's aweful ftreams below ...
... these ; Each fhip fhall launch , a goddess of the seas ; And with her fifter Nereids fhall divide The filver waves , and bound along the tide . This faid ; the lord of thunder feal'd the vow By his dread brother's aweful ftreams below ...
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... These omens threat our foes ( O glorious day ! ) : Lo ! Jove has fnatch'd their laft relief away ! 168. Thefe omens threat our foes , & c . ] The abruptnefs of the original is remarkable , and the whole speech is a noble inftance of ...
... These omens threat our foes ( O glorious day ! ) : Lo ! Jove has fnatch'd their laft relief away ! 168. Thefe omens threat our foes , & c . ] The abruptnefs of the original is remarkable , and the whole speech is a noble inftance of ...
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... these daftards to prevail , Arms forg'd by Vulcan , and a thousand fail ; Though to fupport their defp'rate caufe fhould join Arcadia's fons with all the Tufcan line : Nor need the wretches fear , with vain affright , The facred thefts ...
... these daftards to prevail , Arms forg'd by Vulcan , and a thousand fail ; Though to fupport their defp'rate caufe fhould join Arcadia's fons with all the Tufcan line : Nor need the wretches fear , with vain affright , The facred thefts ...
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Aeneas Æneid aequis aethera Afcanius againſt arma armis arms atque brave breaſt cafus Camilla Catrou chief circumftances cloſe dart death deûm dextra Dido Drances Eneas Ennius equos Euryalus ev'ry facred faid fame fate fays feems fhall fhould fide field fierce fight fimile fimul fire firft fkies flain flew fome fpear friends ftill fubject fuch fuper furious fword goddeſs haec Haud Heav'n hero himſelf hoft Homer Iapis Iapyx Iliad inglorius interea ipfe jav'lin Juno Jupiter Juturna laft laſt Latian Latini Latinus Laufus manu Meffapus Mezentius mihi moenia moſt multa muros neque Nifus nunc o'er obferves omnis paffage Pallas pater plain poem poet pow'rs prince pugnae quae Quid quod rage rife Rutuli Rutulians ſhall ſkies ſky ſpear ſteeds tela Teucri thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tow'rs Trojan Troy Turnus uſed Virgil warrior wound
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Page 211 - Then, crush'd by rules, and weaken'd as refin'd, For years the pow'r of tragedy declin'd; From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd whilst Passion slept; Yet still did Virtue deign the stage to tread, Philosophy remain'd though Nature fled.
Page 320 - Ascanium fusis circum complectitur armis summaque per galeam delibans oscula fatur : " disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, 435 fortunam ex aliis. nunc te mea dextera bello defensum dabit et magna inter praemia ducet : tu facito, mox cum matura adoleverit aetas, sis memor et te animo repetentem exempla tuorum et pater Aeneas et avunculus excitet Hector.
Page 36 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Page 375 - The unity of the epic action, as well as the unity of the fable, does not consist either in the unity of the hero or in the unity of time; three things, I suppose, are necessary to it. The first is to make use of no episode but what arises...
Page 382 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 346 - ... venator cursu canis et latratibus instat; ille autem, insidiis et ripa territus alta, mille fugit refugitque vias; at vividus Umber haeret hians, iam iamque tenet, similisque tenenti increpuit malis, morsuque elusus inani est.
Page 345 - In counterpoise, now ponders all events, Battles and realms: In these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam ; Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend.
Page 386 - Bruyere declares that we are come into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that description and sentiment have been long exhausted.
Page 349 - Hector, and making signs to the troops not to dart at him. But all this does not appear when we read the poem ; for what is wonderful is always agreeable, and as a proof of it, we find that they who relate anything usually add something to the truth, that it may the better please those who hear it.
Page 209 - No man man delights in furrows and ftumbling-blocks : and let our love to antiquity be ever fo great, a fine ruin is one thing, and a heap of rubbifh another. The imitators of Milton, like moft other imitators, are not copies, but caricaturas of their original ; they are a hundred times more obfolete and cramp than he, (and equally fo in all places ; whereas it mould have been obferved of Milton, that he is not lavifh of his exotic words and phrafes every where alike, but employs...