The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Tom 3R.J. Dodsley, 1763 |
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... . Homer's two poems had each a plain and entire ftory , to convey as perfect a moral : And in this he is justly esteemed excellent . The Roman poet VOL . III . B- could could make no improvements here : The Greek was complete [1] ...
... . Homer's two poems had each a plain and entire ftory , to convey as perfect a moral : And in this he is justly esteemed excellent . The Roman poet VOL . III . B- could could make no improvements here : The Greek was complete [1] ...
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... poet ; but he afpired to make it a SYSTEM OF POLITICS . On this plan he wrote the Æneis ; which is indeed as perfectly fuch , in verfe , by EXAMPLE , as the Re- publics of Plato and Tully were in profe , by PRE- CEPT . Thus he added a ...
... poet ; but he afpired to make it a SYSTEM OF POLITICS . On this plan he wrote the Æneis ; which is indeed as perfectly fuch , in verfe , by EXAMPLE , as the Re- publics of Plato and Tully were in profe , by PRE- CEPT . Thus he added a ...
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... poets imagined , from the PASSION of Laius , but from the WISDOM of legiflators . " Such was the friendship , our poet would here reprefent , where he says , Nifus AMORE PIO pueri- and where he makes Afcanius call Euryalus , VENERANDE ...
... poets imagined , from the PASSION of Laius , but from the WISDOM of legiflators . " Such was the friendship , our poet would here reprefent , where he says , Nifus AMORE PIO pueri- and where he makes Afcanius call Euryalus , VENERANDE ...
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... poets teach concerning them . A fecret , which The- feus , ( whofe entrance into the myfteries was only a fraudulent intrufion ) we muft fuppofe , had not yet learnt . The comic poet , in his frogs , tells us plainly what he too ...
... poets teach concerning them . A fecret , which The- feus , ( whofe entrance into the myfteries was only a fraudulent intrufion ) we muft fuppofe , had not yet learnt . The comic poet , in his frogs , tells us plainly what he too ...
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... poets of the Auguftan age to exercise themselves on the fub- ject of the mysteries , as appears from Cicero , who defires Atticus , then at Athens , and initiated , to fend to Chilius , a poet of eminence ' , an account of the ...
... poets of the Auguftan age to exercise themselves on the fub- ject of the mysteries , as appears from Cicero , who defires Atticus , then at Athens , and initiated , to fend to Chilius , a poet of eminence ' , an account of the ...
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Æneas Æneid againſt ancient Apollonius Rhodius arms Auguftus beauteous becauſe Cæfar chief Chimæra circumftance courfers defcribed defcription defign Dido dire divine dreadful 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 fpeaking ftands ftate ftill fubject fuch fuppofe glorious gods golden bough hell hero himſelf hoft Homer honours Iliad initiated Jove juft Jupiter king laft laſt Latian Latium Livy Mezentius mighty moft moſt muft 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 ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſpread ſtate Statius Tarchon Tartarus thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tow'rs Trojan Troy Turnus uſe Virgil whofe youth
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Strona 189 - ... 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...
Strona 211 - Aeneas, it may be worth while to consider with how much Judgment he has qualified it, and taken off every thing that might have appeared improper for a Passage in an Heroic Poem.
Strona 291 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Strona 54 - But he was too good a painter, to leave any thing ambiguous ; and hath therefore concluded his hero's initiation, as was the custom, with instructing him in the Aporreta, or the doctrine of the unity.
Strona 210 - I believe very many readers have been shocked at that ludicrous prophecy which one of the harpies pronounces to the Trojans in the third book ; namely, that before they had built their intended city they should be reduced by hunger to eat their very tables.
Strona 310 - Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Strona 41 - I can give no reason for their being stationed there in so particular a manner, but because none of them seem to have had a proper right to a place among the dead, as not having run out the whole thread of their days, and finished the term of life that had been allotted them upon earth. The first of these are the souls of infants, who are snatched away by untimely ends...
Strona 261 - The hoarfe rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar. When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo, wrr?n fwift Camilla fcours the plain, flies o'er th' unbending corn, and Ikiras along the main.
Strona 52 - European law-givers; but better known under the character of poet: for the first laws being written in measure, to allure men to learn them, and, when learnt, to retain them, the fable would have it, that by the force of harmony, Orpheus softened the savage inhabitants of Thrace : -Threicius longa cum veste sacerdos Obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum: Jamque eadem digitis, jam pectine pulsat eburno (t).
Strona 9 - Milton was the emulator of both. He found Homer possessed of the province of MORALITY ; Virgil of POLITICS : and nothing left for him, but that of RELIGION.