The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Tom 3R.J. Dodsley, 1763 |
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Strona 113
... Queen . 780. Heaven's mighty emprefs . ] Here the poet returns to the main fubject of his poem . This is the third obftacle Juno raifes , to hinder Eneas's arrival in Italy . Nothing can be more natural , than the fears of the Trojan ...
... Queen . 780. Heaven's mighty emprefs . ] Here the poet returns to the main fubject of his poem . This is the third obftacle Juno raifes , to hinder Eneas's arrival in Italy . Nothing can be more natural , than the fears of the Trojan ...
Strona 124
... queen of love with cares oppreft , The mighty father of the floods addreft : Imperious Juno's unrelenting hate To the poor relicks of the Trojan ftate , ( Which no decrees of Jove or fate restrain , Nor length of years , nor vows ...
... queen of love with cares oppreft , The mighty father of the floods addreft : Imperious Juno's unrelenting hate To the poor relicks of the Trojan ftate , ( Which no decrees of Jove or fate restrain , Nor length of years , nor vows ...
Strona 133
... queen ; Their birth , a man below , a beast above , The mingled offspring of prepoft'rous love ! 35 26. The matchlefs artif . ] The fculpture on the front of this temple , is beautifully imagined . That circumftance of the father's ...
... queen ; Their birth , a man below , a beast above , The mingled offspring of prepoft'rous love ! 35 26. The matchlefs artif . ] The fculpture on the front of this temple , is beautifully imagined . That circumftance of the father's ...
Strona 138
... queen , with unrelenting hate , Still , as of old , pursues the Dardan state . 125 Once more the woes of Troy derive their caufe From a new breach of hospitable laws ; And she must bleed again as late fhe bled , 130 For a rap'd princefs ...
... queen , with unrelenting hate , Still , as of old , pursues the Dardan state . 125 Once more the woes of Troy derive their caufe From a new breach of hospitable laws ; And she must bleed again as late fhe bled , 130 For a rap'd princefs ...
Strona 142
... queen of Stygian Jove . Her nether world no mortals can behold , Till from the bole they ftrip the blooming gold . The mighty queen requires this gift alone , And claims the fhining wonder for her own . One pluck'd away , a fecond ...
... queen of Stygian Jove . Her nether world no mortals can behold , Till from the bole they ftrip the blooming gold . The mighty queen requires this gift alone , And claims the fhining wonder for her own . One pluck'd away , a fecond ...
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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.