The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1875 |
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Page 77
... Virgil that ever lived - was wont , on closing his favourite volume , to express the boundless fascination it never failed to exercise over him . The qualities which charmed our great medi- cal discoverer form , indeed , no part of ...
... Virgil that ever lived - was wont , on closing his favourite volume , to express the boundless fascination it never failed to exercise over him . The qualities which charmed our great medi- cal discoverer form , indeed , no part of ...
Page 78
... Virgil's reputation as a writer , from the very date of the publication of the Eneid ' down to the twelfth century . On this portion of his work he is inclined to lay great stress , partly as a portion of literary history never ...
... Virgil's reputation as a writer , from the very date of the publication of the Eneid ' down to the twelfth century . On this portion of his work he is inclined to lay great stress , partly as a portion of literary history never ...
Page 79
... Virgil , and the doubt whether he knew Greek enough for an equal appreciation of Homer , the degree to which Virgil entered into the question of rewards and punish- ments , and the deeply religious colouring which pervades this portion ...
... Virgil , and the doubt whether he knew Greek enough for an equal appreciation of Homer , the degree to which Virgil entered into the question of rewards and punish- ments , and the deeply religious colouring which pervades this portion ...
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... Virgil also ; and there is no doubt that both were credited with a knowledge of the miraculous star . Nor did Virgil's authorship of the fourth Eclogue fail to in- crease in his case that feeling of compassion for the misfortune of ...
... Virgil also ; and there is no doubt that both were credited with a knowledge of the miraculous star . Nor did Virgil's authorship of the fourth Eclogue fail to in- crease in his case that feeling of compassion for the misfortune of ...
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... Virgil leads the concert with a fiddle . Christian poets , Sedulius for example , imitate and sometimes copy the inscriptions of Virgil in painting Hell or Paradise ; and his verses are to be found in the burial - places of the cata ...
... Virgil leads the concert with a fiddle . Christian poets , Sedulius for example , imitate and sometimes copy the inscriptions of Virgil in painting Hell or Paradise ; and his verses are to be found in the burial - places of the cata ...
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