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 v
... seems to have been wholly unknown to the Virgilian editors . In the Library Catal . it is set down as of the 12th Century . I have quoted the readings of this MS . in fifteen places . 23. 24. 25. The three MSS . preserved in the Am ...
... seems to have been wholly unknown to the Virgilian editors . In the Library Catal . it is set down as of the 12th Century . I have quoted the readings of this MS . in fifteen places . 23. 24. 25. The three MSS . preserved in the Am ...
Page vi
... seems to me to have been taken in the formation of the text of the Modena Ed . that I esteem it as of greater authority than many of the MSS . and have accordingly made much use of it , and quoted it very frequently in the course of the ...
... seems to me to have been taken in the formation of the text of the Modena Ed . that I esteem it as of greater authority than many of the MSS . and have accordingly made much use of it , and quoted it very frequently in the course of the ...
Page x
... seems , either did not understand the joke , or shut his eyes against satire coming from so obscure a quarter , and returned me the book , accompanied by the usual insincere , complimentary note . When I came to Milan , I heard X.
... seems , either did not understand the joke , or shut his eyes against satire coming from so obscure a quarter , and returned me the book , accompanied by the usual insincere , complimentary note . When I came to Milan , I heard X.
Page 3
... seems to have been perceived by Voss in his translation : " Waffen ertönt mein Gesang ; " and by Spenser in his imitation quoted above : " For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds . " VENIT LITTORA . - TROJE QUI PRIMUS AB ORIS ...
... seems to have been perceived by Voss in his translation : " Waffen ertönt mein Gesang ; " and by Spenser in his imitation quoted above : " For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds . " VENIT LITTORA . - TROJE QUI PRIMUS AB ORIS ...
Page 8
... seems to me to be used like the immediately preceding TYRIAS ARCES , merely for variety , and to avoid the repetition of the term " Carthago , " already employed at verse 17 . SIC VOLVERE PARCAS . The Parcæ are here said VOL- VERE ( i ...
... seems to me to be used like the immediately preceding TYRIAS ARCES , merely for variety , and to avoid the repetition of the term " Carthago , " already employed at verse 17 . SIC VOLVERE PARCAS . The Parcæ are here said VOL- VERE ( i ...
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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...