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... Turnus , lafted from the beginning of the April , when he came into Italy , to the November following According to this plan , we may determine the Æneid to be comprised within the courfe of one folar year . Sure all the friendly pow'rs ...
... Turnus , lafted from the beginning of the April , when he came into Italy , to the November following According to this plan , we may determine the Æneid to be comprised within the courfe of one folar year . Sure all the friendly pow'rs ...
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... Turnus , B. vii . ; where he says , that her face grew ftill larger and larger , as he looked upon it . " POLYMETIS , Dial . 16 . I hope this amiable author ( who seldom forgets any thing but the obligations he lays upon his friends ) ...
... Turnus , B. vii . ; where he says , that her face grew ftill larger and larger , as he looked upon it . " POLYMETIS , Dial . 16 . I hope this amiable author ( who seldom forgets any thing but the obligations he lays upon his friends ) ...
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... Turnus , who is in love with her , being favoured by her mother , and ftirred up by Juno and Alecto , breaks the treaty which was made ; and engages in his quar- rel , Mezentius , Camilla , Meffapus , and many others of the neighbouring ...
... Turnus , who is in love with her , being favoured by her mother , and ftirred up by Juno and Alecto , breaks the treaty which was made ; and engages in his quar- rel , Mezentius , Camilla , Meffapus , and many others of the neighbouring ...
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... Turnus and Æne- as , for the fair Lavinia . This obfervation may at first fight appear too refined : But that Virgil here invokes Erato , as the mufe prefiding over love affairs , is evident ; for Nunc age qui reges Erato , & c . is a ...
... Turnus and Æne- as , for the fair Lavinia . This obfervation may at first fight appear too refined : But that Virgil here invokes Erato , as the mufe prefiding over love affairs , is evident ; for Nunc age qui reges Erato , & c . is a ...
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... Turnus too the royal maid addrest , Whofe birth and beauty far furpast the rest . The Latian queen , to gain fo brave a fon , Had made the blooming hero's cause her own . Vain was her aim , for every power divine Withstood the match ...
... Turnus too the royal maid addrest , Whofe birth and beauty far furpast the rest . The Latian queen , to gain fo brave a fon , Had made the blooming hero's cause her own . Vain was her aim , for every power divine Withstood the match ...
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Æneas Æneid againſt Anchifes ancient arms Auguftus beauteous Cæfar Ceres chief circumftance courfers defcent defcribed defcription defign Dido dire divine dreadful Euripides Evander fable facred faid fame fate Faunus fays fecond feems fhade fhall fhews fhield fhining fhore fhould fide fierce fight fire firft firſt flain flames flew flood folemn fome foul ftand ftate ftill ftream fubject fublime fuch fuppofe glorious goddeſs gods golden bough hell hero himſelf Homer honours Iliad initiated Jove juft Jupiter king laft laſt Latian Latium leaſt Livy Mezentius mighty moft moſt muſt myfteries Neptune o'er obferves occafion paffage pafs perfon plain Plato poem poet pow'rs prefent prince race rage rais'd raiſe reafon reprefented rife riſe rites Roman Rome round ſcene Servius ſhall ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſpread ſtate Statius Tarchon Tartarus thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tow'rs Trojan Troy Turnus uſed Virgil whofe youth
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Seite 149 - A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Seite 287 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Seite 208 - ... and tradition. The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him, and circumstanced them after his own manner, to make them appear the more natural, agreeable, or surprising.
Seite 187 - ... 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...
Seite 184 - 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.
Seite 259 - Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding more, The hoarfe rough verfe mould like the torrent roar.
Seite 208 - We find, however, that he has interwoven, in the course of his fable, the principal particulars, which were generally believed among the Romans, of jEneas's voyage and settlement in Italy.
Seite 30 - This people, like the rest of mankind, in their descriptions of the other world, used to copy from something they were well acquainted with in this. In their funeral rites, which, as we observed, was...
Seite 12 - Orpheus is said to go to hell by the power of his harp: that is, in quality of lawgiver; the harp being the known symbol of his laws, by which he humanized a rude and barbarous people. So again, in the lives of Hercules and Bacchus, we have the true history, and the fable founded on it, blended and recorded together.
Seite 232 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; 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.