Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the EneisMeinhold and Sons, 1853 - 586 pages |
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Page ix
... less in spirit than in letter , are the discussions which Ph . E. Wagner has thought proper to dignify with the misnomer , Quaestiones Virgilianae . Dr. A. Forbiger has inserted into his third edition . short notices of , and extracts ...
... less in spirit than in letter , are the discussions which Ph . E. Wagner has thought proper to dignify with the misnomer , Quaestiones Virgilianae . Dr. A. Forbiger has inserted into his third edition . short notices of , and extracts ...
Page xi
... less success cultivated the same author , except alone the assistance which I have reared and created for myself in my own daughter , who has already , at the age of twenty two , arrived at such a degree of knowledge of the subject ...
... less success cultivated the same author , except alone the assistance which I have reared and created for myself in my own daughter , who has already , at the age of twenty two , arrived at such a degree of knowledge of the subject ...
Page xii
... less misunderstood , and afforded materials for a separate Commentary . Hence the present work . The reader will perhaps think that , the meaning once ascertained , the transference into English followed almost as a matter of course ...
... less misunderstood , and afforded materials for a separate Commentary . Hence the present work . The reader will perhaps think that , the meaning once ascertained , the transference into English followed almost as a matter of course ...
Page xv
... less distinctly pictured in the poems which collectively with the Six Photographs of the Heroic Times constitute the volume entitled My Book , and printed this summer in Dresden . Warned by the misfortunes of others that a work like ...
... less distinctly pictured in the poems which collectively with the Six Photographs of the Heroic Times constitute the volume entitled My Book , and printed this summer in Dresden . Warned by the misfortunes of others that a work like ...
Page 3
... less to VENIT than to PROFUGUS , the two words PROFUGUS and VENIT being intimately united together , so as to form but one idea , that of coming as a refugee ; taking refuge . Compare Comment on " improvida turbat , " En . II . 200 ...
... less to VENIT than to PROFUGUS , the two words PROFUGUS and VENIT being intimately united together , so as to form but one idea , that of coming as a refugee ; taking refuge . Compare Comment on " improvida turbat , " En . II . 200 ...
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Page 5 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 27 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers...
Page 27 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow. Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.
Page 86 - Apparet domus intus et atria longa patescunt, apparent Priami et veterum penetralia regum; armatosque vident stantes in limine primo.
Page 76 - For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 98 - Notre chair change bientôt de nature : notre corps prend un autre nom; même celui de cadavre, dit Tertullien, parce qu'il nous montre encore quelque forme humaine, ne lui demeure pas longtemps : il devient un je ne sais quoi, qui n'a plus de nom dans aucune langue...
Page 13 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed...
Page 27 - Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. And such she was; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased.
Page 1 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna : Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
Page 26 - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios...