The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid, Volume 1J. Dodsley, 1778 |
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... description of the shield in the VIIIth book . Hitherto we have contemplated the decorations of the frine , i . e . fuch as bear a more direct and immediate reference to the honour of Caefar . We are now prefented with a view of the ...
... description of the shield in the VIIIth book . Hitherto we have contemplated the decorations of the frine , i . e . fuch as bear a more direct and immediate reference to the honour of Caefar . We are now prefented with a view of the ...
Page 399
... description of the plague among the cattle ; his Georgics , tho ' abounding in most useful rules , delivered with dignity and grace united , would never have been the delight and admiration of his own , and all fucceeding ages . His art ...
... description of the plague among the cattle ; his Georgics , tho ' abounding in most useful rules , delivered with dignity and grace united , would never have been the delight and admiration of his own , and all fucceeding ages . His art ...
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... descriptions of the deftruction of old Ariconium , the praises of Herefordshire ; the moral characters of the most cele- brated poets , at the conclufion of the firft , and the ef- fects of the Union at the end of the fecond book ...
... descriptions of the deftruction of old Ariconium , the praises of Herefordshire ; the moral characters of the most cele- brated poets , at the conclufion of the firft , and the ef- fects of the Union at the end of the fecond book ...
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... descriptions , pompous P. 55 Reflexions critiques fur le poefie & fur la peinture , Tom . 1 . It may not be improper to produce the following glaring inftance of the abfurdity of introducing long and minute de- fcriptions into tragedy ...
... descriptions , pompous P. 55 Reflexions critiques fur le poefie & fur la peinture , Tom . 1 . It may not be improper to produce the following glaring inftance of the abfurdity of introducing long and minute de- fcriptions into tragedy ...
Page 407
... descriptions indeed have abundance of nature in them ; but then it is nature in her fimplicity and un- drefs . Nor has he fhewn more of art or judgment in the precepts he has given us , which are sown so very thick , that they clog the ...
... descriptions indeed have abundance of nature in them ; but then it is nature in her fimplicity and un- drefs . Nor has he fhewn more of art or judgment in the precepts he has given us , which are sown so very thick , that they clog the ...
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Page 29 - ... all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer...
Page 433 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Page 423 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Page 114 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fading together ; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 19 - Augustan age. It is remarkable that he is commended by some of the ancients themselves, for the strength of his imagination as to this particular, though in general that is not his character...
Page 300 - Optima torvae Forma bovis, cui turpe caput, cui plurima cervix, Et crurum tenus a mento palearia pendent ; Tum longo nullus lateri modus ; omnia magna, Pes etiam ; et camuris hirtae sub cornibus aures.
Page 5 - Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when to examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Page 398 - I shall give one instance, out of a multitude of this nature that might be found in the Georgics, where the reader may...
Page 402 - Forth ifluing on a fummer's morn to breathe Among the pleafant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The fmell of grain, or tedded grafs, or kine...
Page 250 - Media fert tristis sucos tardumque saporem felicis mali, quo non praesentius ullum, pocula si quando saevae infecere novercae, miscueruntque herbas et non innoxia verba, auxilium venit ac membris agit atra venena.