VirgilMethuen, 1912 - 343 Seiten |
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... later on he retouches it , memory and some- times timidity confuse the impression . I have added translations of ( I think ) all the passages of Virgil quoted - not always using the same words , I find , where the same passage came more ...
... later on he retouches it , memory and some- times timidity confuse the impression . I have added translations of ( I think ) all the passages of Virgil quoted - not always using the same words , I find , where the same passage came more ...
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... later age.1 He will have grasped all that his own age has to say , and he will feel more than other men the weak points in a position with which they are satisfied . Even if he does not consciously feel these weak points , they will ...
... later age.1 He will have grasped all that his own age has to say , and he will feel more than other men the weak points in a position with which they are satisfied . Even if he does not consciously feel these weak points , they will ...
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... later , would still have been Virgil - a less perfect Virgil , but yet Virgil - while Horace would not have been Horace at any other time . " Horace , " he continues , " if I may so say , is the age of Augustus personified . " Probably ...
... later , would still have been Virgil - a less perfect Virgil , but yet Virgil - while Horace would not have been Horace at any other time . " Horace , " he continues , " if I may so say , is the age of Augustus personified . " Probably ...
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... later on , the gods of Olympus themselves have learnt the lesson.2 There is another result of the decline of state - life , which is not quite so conspicuous , but must not be overlooked . Philosophy , though not perhaps so early as it ...
... later on , the gods of Olympus themselves have learnt the lesson.2 There is another result of the decline of state - life , which is not quite so conspicuous , but must not be overlooked . Philosophy , though not perhaps so early as it ...
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... later philosophy , which is ominous for the time . The new lessons have not been learned in quite the old way . There is a growing suspicion of the mind and its powers , a mistrust of the intellect , which issues in the denial of the ...
... later philosophy , which is ominous for the time . The new lessons have not been learned in quite the old way . There is a growing suspicion of the mind and its powers , a mistrust of the intellect , which issues in the denial of the ...
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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.