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... mighty father of the main ! hat tempefts threaten from thy watry reign ? hen he commands to furl the fails , and fweep With every bending oar the foamy deep . imfelf , to break the blaft , his fails inclin'd , nd fled obliquely with the ...
... mighty father of the main ! hat tempefts threaten from thy watry reign ? hen he commands to furl the fails , and fweep With every bending oar the foamy deep . imfelf , to break the blaft , his fails inclin'd , nd fled obliquely with the ...
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... the fea gave marks of the approaching inter , Et glacialis hyems aquilonibus afperat undas . This nnot be faid of any other month than Öctober , or Novem E 3 ber Rais'd verdant altars to the mighty shade , And paid ook 5 . 77 OF VIRGIL .
... the fea gave marks of the approaching inter , Et glacialis hyems aquilonibus afperat undas . This nnot be faid of any other month than Öctober , or Novem E 3 ber Rais'd verdant altars to the mighty shade , And paid ook 5 . 77 OF VIRGIL .
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In English Verse Virgil. Rais'd verdant altars to the mighty shade , And paid all funeral honours to the dead : And now the fatal day is juft return'd , By me ( fo Heav'n ordains ) with rites adorn'd , For ever honour'd , and for ever ...
In English Verse Virgil. Rais'd verdant altars to the mighty shade , And paid all funeral honours to the dead : And now the fatal day is juft return'd , By me ( fo Heav'n ordains ) with rites adorn'd , For ever honour'd , and for ever ...
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... mighty train , the hero past along . 90 95 98. Now to the tomb . ] The critics and commentators feem not to have perceived the defign which the poet undoubtedly had , in this epifode of the apotheofis of Anchifes , and in the ...
... mighty train , the hero past along . 90 95 98. Now to the tomb . ] The critics and commentators feem not to have perceived the defign which the poet undoubtedly had , in this epifode of the apotheofis of Anchifes , and in the ...
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... mighty Tyber's rolling ftreams explore , The facred flood , that bathes th ' Aufonian shore . Scarce had he faid , when , beauteous to behold ! From the deep tomb , with many a fhining fold , An azure ferpent rofe , in fcales that flam ...
... mighty Tyber's rolling ftreams explore , The facred flood , that bathes th ' Aufonian shore . Scarce had he faid , when , beauteous to behold ! From the deep tomb , with many a fhining fold , An azure ferpent rofe , in fcales that flam ...
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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.