The Spectator, Volume 2J. J. Woodward, 1830 |
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Page 14
... Iliad . Virgil , before the last decisive combat describes Jupiter in the same manner , as weighing the fates of Turnus and Æneas . Milton , though he fetched this beautiful circumstance from the Iliad and Æneid , does not only insert ...
... Iliad . Virgil , before the last decisive combat describes Jupiter in the same manner , as weighing the fates of Turnus and Æneas . Milton , though he fetched this beautiful circumstance from the Iliad and Æneid , does not only insert ...
Page 147
... Iliad , nor more charming than that of Venus in the first Æneid . Ή και κυανέησιν επ ' οφρύσι νεύσε Κρονίων , Αμβροσιαι δ ' αρα χαίται επερρώσαντο ανακτος ελέλιξεν Ολυμπον , Iliad , i . 528 . es v He spoke , and awful bends his sable ...
... Iliad , nor more charming than that of Venus in the first Æneid . Ή και κυανέησιν επ ' οφρύσι νεύσε Κρονίων , Αμβροσιαι δ ' αρα χαίται επερρώσαντο ανακτος ελέλιξεν Ολυμπον , Iliad , i . 528 . es v He spoke , and awful bends his sable ...
Page 148
... Iliad or Odyssey , and always rises above himself when he has Homer in his view . Virgil has drawn together , into his neid , all the pleasing scenes his subject is capable of admitting , and in his Georgics has given us a collec- tion ...
... Iliad or Odyssey , and always rises above himself when he has Homer in his view . Virgil has drawn together , into his neid , all the pleasing scenes his subject is capable of admitting , and in his Georgics has given us a collec- tion ...
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