VirgilMethuen, 1912 - 343 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 100
Seite
... ITALY . Novelty of appeal to a nation ; the unity of Italy , p . 105.- -I . Scenery ; travel ; Italian scenery and legends ; landscape ; birds , p . 108.- -II . The Italian people , p . 120. -III . The Trojans in Italy , p . 123 ...
... ITALY . Novelty of appeal to a nation ; the unity of Italy , p . 105.- -I . Scenery ; travel ; Italian scenery and legends ; landscape ; birds , p . 108.- -II . The Italian people , p . 120. -III . The Trojans in Italy , p . 123 ...
Seite
... Italian ideas of the other world ; Lucretius ; Cicero's Dream of Scipio ; Orpheus in the Georgics , p . 252.—IV. The ... Italian pantheon ; criticism of Italian reli- gion by Polybius— “ useful ” ; by Cicero and by Lucretius- " paralys ...
... Italian ideas of the other world ; Lucretius ; Cicero's Dream of Scipio ; Orpheus in the Georgics , p . 252.—IV. The ... Italian pantheon ; criticism of Italian reli- gion by Polybius— “ useful ” ; by Cicero and by Lucretius- " paralys ...
Seite 4
... Italian agriculture and the rise of the professional army , both attended with in- evitable mischief . It was followed by the rapid extension of Roman power over the Mediterranean and the accentua- tion of the pride of the sword ...
... Italian agriculture and the rise of the professional army , both attended with in- evitable mischief . It was followed by the rapid extension of Roman power over the Mediterranean and the accentua- tion of the pride of the sword ...
Seite 5
... Italy , and the Social war , fought out some twenty years before Virgil's birth , gained indeed the Roman citizenship for the Italians , but left them with a temper scarcely more friendly to senatorial government than before the war ...
... Italy , and the Social war , fought out some twenty years before Virgil's birth , gained indeed the Roman citizenship for the Italians , but left them with a temper scarcely more friendly to senatorial government than before the war ...
Seite 10
... Italy , we find further that this position , so recently achieved by the other Italians , was still , during the earlier part of his life , a hope and a dream . Thus , side by side with the matured and even ageing philosophy of Greece ...
... Italy , we find further that this position , so recently achieved by the other Italians , was still , during the earlier part of his life , a hope and a dream . Thus , side by side with the matured and even ageing philosophy of Greece ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Alexandria Anchises ancient Antony Aphrodite Augustus Boissier Caesar Carthage Catullus centuries character Cicero clear Conington connexion criticism dead death Dido Dido's Dionysius divine Dunlop Eclogue Emperor Ennius epic Epicurean Étude sur Virgile Euripides Evander Fate feeling Georgics gods Greek Hades happiness heart heaven hero Hesiod Homer honour Horace human ideal ideas Iliad interest Italian Italy Julius Juno Jupiter land Latin Latium literature live look Lucretius Mackail Macrobius mankind mind moral nature Nekyia never Odysseus Olympus once Orphic passage passion Patin perhaps philosophy phrase picture Plato Plutarch poem poet poet's poetic poetry quote race reader realize religion Roman Rome Sainte-Beuve says Servius sorrow soul spirit Stoic story Suet Suetonius suggestion sympathy tells things thou thought Troad Trojan Troy truth Turnus Venus viii whole words Wordsworth Zeus γὰρ δὲ καὶ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 89 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Seite 155 - And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! look! her lips! Look there, look there!
Seite 125 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, Orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent; Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento : Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Seite 55 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came. Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below,— The canticles of love and woe...
Seite 159 - I did consent, And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. 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...
Seite 47 - I have attempted to convey, will break in upon the sanctity and truth of his pictures by transitory and accidental ornaments, and endeavour to excite admiration of himself by arts, the necessity of which must manifestly depend upon the assumed meanness of his subject.
Seite 252 - ... there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable, but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it ; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world, that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and to set in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account...
Seite 12 - 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.
Seite 67 - Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the unity of the hero. For infinitely various are the incidents in one man's life which cannot be reduced to unity; and so, too, there are many actions of one man out of which we cannot make one action.
Seite 115 - If any beat a horse, you felt he saw ; If any cursed a woman, he took note ; Yet stared at nobody, — you stared at him, , And found, less to your pleasure than surprise, He seemed to know you and expect as much.