The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Volume 3R.J. Dodsley, 1763 - Latin poetry |
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... floods , and gathering o'er their heads . Aloud the careful Palinurus cries ; Lo ! what a dreadful ftorm involves the skies ! Oh ! Neptune , mighty ... flood , Tho ' E 2 Book 5 75 THE ENEID . With fuch a whirl their fiery paffions move, ...
... floods , and gathering o'er their heads . Aloud the careful Palinurus cries ; Lo ! what a dreadful ftorm involves the skies ! Oh ! Neptune , mighty ... flood , Tho ' E 2 Book 5 75 THE ENEID . With fuch a whirl their fiery paffions move, ...
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Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton. To reach Hefperia and furmount the flood , Tho ' Jove had paft the promise of a God . See ! from the wet what thwarting winds arife ! How in one cloud are ... flood ; His 56 . Book 5 . THE ENEID.
Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton. To reach Hefperia and furmount the flood , Tho ' Jove had paft the promise of a God . See ! from the wet what thwarting winds arife ! How in one cloud are ... flood ; His 56 . Book 5 . THE ENEID.
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Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton. This monarch fprung from great Crinifus ' flood ; His Trojan mother mingling with the god . With due regard he hails the kindred train , Arriv'd from Carthage at his realms again ; With feasts ...
Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton. This monarch fprung from great Crinifus ' flood ; His Trojan mother mingling with the god . With due regard he hails the kindred train , Arriv'd from Carthage at his realms again ; With feasts ...
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... flood , that bathes th ' Aufonian fhore . Scarce had he said , when , beauteous to behold ! From the deep tomb , with many a fhining fold , An azure ferpent rofe , in fcales that flam'd with gold : 110 of Æneas . The pious Auguftus , by ...
... flood , that bathes th ' Aufonian fhore . Scarce had he said , when , beauteous to behold ! From the deep tomb , with many a fhining fold , An azure ferpent rofe , in fcales that flam'd with gold : 110 of Æneas . The pious Auguftus , by ...
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... flood , 170 The chiefs array'd in gold and purple glow'd . The youths green poplars round their temples twine , And bright with oil their naked bodies fhine , Eager , they grafp their oars , and lift'ning wait the fign . Thick in their ...
... flood , 170 The chiefs array'd in gold and purple glow'd . The youths green poplars round their temples twine , And bright with oil their naked bodies fhine , Eager , they grafp their oars , and lift'ning wait the fign . Thick in their ...
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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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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 291 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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).
Page 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.