The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid, Volume 3J. Dodsley, 1778 |
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... reasons than to raise the dignity of the poem , become effential to the fubject . Thus the choice of princes and heroes for his perfonages , which were ... reason of so much machinery in the Æneis Jixth Book of VIRGIL's 3 ÆNEIS NEIS . .
... reasons than to raise the dignity of the poem , become effential to the fubject . Thus the choice of princes and heroes for his perfonages , which were ... reason of so much machinery in the Æneis Jixth Book of VIRGIL's 3 ÆNEIS NEIS . .
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In Latin & English. The Aeneid Virgil. the true reason of so much machinery in the Æneis ; for which , modern critics accuse the author's judgment , who , in a poem written in the refined and enlightened age of Rome * , followed the ...
In Latin & English. The Aeneid Virgil. the true reason of so much machinery in the Æneis ; for which , modern critics accuse the author's judgment , who , in a poem written in the refined and enlightened age of Rome * , followed the ...
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... reason is , his entrance was a violent intrufion . Had an old poem , under the name of Orpheus , in- titled , a defcent into hell , been now extant , it would , perhaps , have fhewn us that no more was meant than L. 1. prope finem ...
... reason is , his entrance was a violent intrufion . Had an old poem , under the name of Orpheus , in- titled , a defcent into hell , been now extant , it would , perhaps , have fhewn us that no more was meant than L. 1. prope finem ...
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... reason why a priestess is given to conduct him is , because Proferpine prefides in this whole affair . And the name of the priestess in the Eleufinian myfteries fhews that the properly belonged to Proferpine ; though fhe was also called ...
... reason why a priestess is given to conduct him is , because Proferpine prefides in this whole affair . And the name of the priestess in the Eleufinian myfteries fhews that the properly belonged to Proferpine ; though fhe was also called ...
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... reason why this drug had a place in the ceremonial of the fhews . Not improbably it was given to fome , at leaft , of the initiated , to aid the impreffion of those mystic vifions , which paffed before them . For that fomething like ...
... reason why this drug had a place in the ceremonial of the fhews . Not improbably it was given to fome , at leaft , of the initiated , to aid the impreffion of those mystic vifions , which paffed before them . For that fomething like ...
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Aceftes adeo Aeneas Æneid aethere againſt Anchifes ancient arma arms atque Auguftus autem cafus circumftance Dardanus defcribed defcription deûm dreadful effe Eneas enim Eryx etiam facred faid fame fatis fays feems fhade fhall fhews fhield fhining fhore fhould fide fight firft firſt fkies flain flew flood folemn fome fubject fuch funt fuper fuppofe gods haec hell hero himſelf Hinc Homer hunc Iliad inter ipfe juventus laft Latian Latinus Latio Latium Livy manu menfis Mezentius mighty mihi Mneftheus moenia moft moſt muſt myfteries nunc o'er obferves occafion omnes omnis paffage pater poem poet poeta prefent prince procul quae quam quibus quod reafon reprefented rife rites Roman Rome ſhall ſkies ſky ſpread ſtate Statius tamen Tartarus terga thefe theſe thofe thoſe thro tibi tow'rs Trojan Turnus uſed Virgil whofe youth
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