The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volumen11,Partes3-4Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1813 |
Términos y frases comunes
Æneas Æneid afar altars Anchises Arcadian arms Ascanius Ausonian bear behold Betwixt blood bore breast call'd chief clouds command coursers cries crowd crown'd dare darts death descends design'd Dido Euryalus eyes falchion fame fatal fate father Faunus fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames flies flood foes forc'd force friends fury Georgic ghost goddess gods ground hand haste head heaven hero holy honour javelin Jove Juno Juturna king labouring lance land Latian Latium Lausus Lycian Messapus Mezentius mighty mind mix'd Mnestheus night o'er Pallas pass'd peace Phrygian pierc'd pious plain press'd prince promis'd purple pursue queen race rage rais'd resolv'd rest rites Rutulians sacred seiz'd shades shield shining shore side sight Simoïs sire skies slain soul sound spear stand steed stood Stygian sword Tarchon thee thou thrice town trembling Trojan troops Troy Turnus Tuscan unhappy view'd Virgil vows walls winds wood wound youth
Pasajes populares
Página 4 - When death has once dissolv'd her mortal frame; Shall smile to see the traitor vainly weep: Her angry ghost, arising from the deep, Shall haunt thee waking, and disturb thy sleep. At least my shade thy punishment shall know, And Fame shall spread the pleasing news below.
Página 143 - I write ; and my judges, if they are not very equitable, already prejudiced against me, by the lying character which has been given them of my morals. Yet, steady to my principles, and not dispirited with my afflictions, I have, by the blessing of God- on my endeavours, overcome all difficulties, and in some measure acquitted myself of the debt which I owed the public when I undertook this work.
Página 89 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face ; Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise. But Rome ! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey. Disposing peace and war, thy own majestic way : To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free: — These are imperial arts and worthy thee.
Página 130 - These make thy friends, and on their aid rely. To thy free passage I submit my streams. Wake, son of Venus, from thy pleasing dreams ; And, when the setting stars are lost in day, To Juno's...
Página 167 - Prefix'd by fate's irrevocable doom, When the great Mother of the Gods was free To save her ships, and finish Jove's decree. First, from the quarter of the morn, there sprung A light that...
Página 152 - For there, emboss'd, the heav'nly smith had wrought (Not in the rolls of future fate untaught) The wars in order, and the race divine Of warriors issuing from the Julian line. The cave of Mars was dress'd with mossy greens : There, by the wolf, were laid the martial twins.
Página 14 - Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace, First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain : Arid when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And lie unburied in the common sand.
Página 37 - Runs roaring downward from his hilly stand: Imagine eager Turnus not more slow, To rush from high on his unequal foe. Young Pallas, when he saw the chief advance Within due distance of his flying lance, Prepares...