VirgilMethuen, 1912 - 343 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 48
Seite
... doubt he is right , and in more than his state- ment of fact . A great poet , expressing himself in great poetry , is not easily grasped in his entirety . For the great mind has the abundant suggestiveness of Nature and her work , and ...
... doubt he is right , and in more than his state- ment of fact . A great poet , expressing himself in great poetry , is not easily grasped in his entirety . For the great mind has the abundant suggestiveness of Nature and her work , and ...
Seite 16
... doubt likewise a love that went back to the island home of his boyhood.2 Take his picture of the waters of Italy- Fluminaque antiquos subterlabentia muros . An mare , quod supra , memorem , quodque adluit infra ? anne lacus tantos ? te ...
... doubt likewise a love that went back to the island home of his boyhood.2 Take his picture of the waters of Italy- Fluminaque antiquos subterlabentia muros . An mare , quod supra , memorem , quodque adluit infra ? anne lacus tantos ? te ...
Seite 28
... doubt . The shepherd went to court , as Touchstone puts it , and learnt good manners - so they tell us . Myers , Sellar , and Sainte- Beuve all call attention to this , and doubtless Virgil did not mingle with men of affairs , with ...
... doubt . The shepherd went to court , as Touchstone puts it , and learnt good manners - so they tell us . Myers , Sellar , and Sainte- Beuve all call attention to this , and doubtless Virgil did not mingle with men of affairs , with ...
Seite 32
... doubt- ful , with a view to criticism . " 2 A poet who heard him read , Julius Montanus by name , " used to say that he would steal Virgil's voice and pronunciation and delivery , if he could , for verses would sound well when he read ...
... doubt- ful , with a view to criticism . " 2 A poet who heard him read , Julius Montanus by name , " used to say that he would steal Virgil's voice and pronunciation and delivery , if he could , for verses would sound well when he read ...
Seite 36
... doubt as we will , man is actually Here , " and ending " Ever must Pain urge us to Labour ; and only in free Effort can any blessedness be imagined for us . " Cf. Alleyne Ireland , The Far Eastern Tropics , pp . 8-10 , on the growth of ...
... doubt as we will , man is actually Here , " and ending " Ever must Pain urge us to Labour ; and only in free Effort can any blessedness be imagined for us . " Cf. Alleyne Ireland , The Far Eastern Tropics , pp . 8-10 , on the growth of ...
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.