The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Band 1R.J. Dodsley, 1763 |
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... Several of his Pieces indicate a Genius of a higher Clafs , far fuperior to Paftoral , and equal to the fublimeft Species of Poetry fuch are particularly , his Panegyric on Ptolomy , the Fight between Amycus and Pollux , the ...
... Several of his Pieces indicate a Genius of a higher Clafs , far fuperior to Paftoral , and equal to the fublimeft Species of Poetry fuch are particularly , his Panegyric on Ptolomy , the Fight between Amycus and Pollux , the ...
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... several old manufcripts : ex imbres in the original , for the poet begins . to fpeak of fair weather . 477. In vain repeats . ] Dr. Trapp interprets nequicquam , in vain , Dr. Martyn , not repeats . If we understand the poet . to be ...
... several old manufcripts : ex imbres in the original , for the poet begins . to fpeak of fair weather . 477. In vain repeats . ] Dr. Trapp interprets nequicquam , in vain , Dr. Martyn , not repeats . If we understand the poet . to be ...
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... Several of the commentators that have been used to confider the winds only in a natural way , and never perhaps in an allegorical one , are greatly offended at the word cogitet here . The thinking of a wind is to them the highest pitch ...
... Several of the commentators that have been used to confider the winds only in a natural way , and never perhaps in an allegorical one , are greatly offended at the word cogitet here . The thinking of a wind is to them the highest pitch ...
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... several ways , 1. SPONTANEOUSLY , 2. by SEEDS , 3. and by SUCKERS . He still uses the fame order as verfe the 61st , & c . 22. Greece devoutly paid . ] In this , and many other paf fages , he glances at , and ridicules the fuperftitions ...
... several ways , 1. SPONTANEOUSLY , 2. by SEEDS , 3. and by SUCKERS . He still uses the fame order as verfe the 61st , & c . 22. Greece devoutly paid . ] In this , and many other paf fages , he glances at , and ridicules the fuperftitions ...
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... several ( and particularly fome in the garden island in St. James's Park ) which send down a tap - root from their heads through the trunk , that often seems intirely decayed ; and fo form a young tree on an old stock , which looks as ...
... several ( and particularly fome in the garden island in St. James's Park ) which send down a tap - root from their heads through the trunk , that often seems intirely decayed ; and fo form a young tree on an old stock , which looks as ...
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Seite 78 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Seite 35 - ... disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the Heavens ; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the Gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation.
Seite 32 - But ah! Maecenas is yclad in clay, And great Augustus long ago is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead...
Seite 319 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Seite 302 - Thus does the old gentleman give himself up to a loose kind of tattle, rather than endeavour after a just poetical description.
Seite 236 - And through his airy hall the loud misrule Of driving tempest is for ever heard: Here the grim tyrant meditates his wrath; Here arms his winds with all-subduing frost; Moulds his fierce hail, and treasures up his snows. With which he now oppresses half the globe.
Seite 328 - Po In angry waves ; Euphrates hence devolves A mighty flood to water half the east ; And there in gothic solitude reclin'd, The cheerless Tanais pours his hoary. urn.
Seite 5 - A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t' examine every part he came, —Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Seite 331 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...