The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid, Volume 1J. Dodsley, 1778 |
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... most perfect of poets , in the following tranf- lation . When I firft entered upon this work , I fometimes imagined , that I heard the voice of Virgil addreffing me with the humanity of his hero ; Quo moriture ruis ? majoraque viribus ...
... most perfect of poets , in the following tranf- lation . When I firft entered upon this work , I fometimes imagined , that I heard the voice of Virgil addreffing me with the humanity of his hero ; Quo moriture ruis ? majoraque viribus ...
Page iii
... most perfect in his style ; I mean in the poems he lived to finish . There is a profufion of the moft daring metaphors and most glowing figures , there is a majefty and magnifi- cence of diction throughout the Georgics , that ...
... most perfect in his style ; I mean in the poems he lived to finish . There is a profufion of the moft daring metaphors and most glowing figures , there is a majefty and magnifi- cence of diction throughout the Georgics , that ...
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... most daring imaginable , and hold very much of the enthusiasm of the ancient lyrics ; and I think one may venture to affirm , that this poem contains more original unborrowed beauties , and is more perfect in its kind as a Didactic ...
... most daring imaginable , and hold very much of the enthusiasm of the ancient lyrics ; and I think one may venture to affirm , that this poem contains more original unborrowed beauties , and is more perfect in its kind as a Didactic ...
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... most liable to cenfure in the conduct of this poem , is the making Dido a far more interefting and ftriking character than Lavinia , upon whom the whole action turns . But this circumftance is furely ex- cufable , if we reflect how ...
... most liable to cenfure in the conduct of this poem , is the making Dido a far more interefting and ftriking character than Lavinia , upon whom the whole action turns . But this circumftance is furely ex- cufable , if we reflect how ...
Page ix
... most " evidently , affect us not in proportion to those of Homer . His characters of valour are much " alike ; even that of Turnus feems no way pecu- " liar , but as it is in a different degree : and we " fee nothing that differences ...
... most " evidently , affect us not in proportion to those of Homer . His characters of valour are much " alike ; even that of Turnus feems no way pecu- " liar , but as it is in a different degree : and we " fee nothing that differences ...
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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.