P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogæ Decem: The Bucolicks of Virgil, with an English Translation and Notes |
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Page vii
... tion of bucolical or pastoral poetry , by attending carefully to the design of those great ancients , Theocritus and Virgil , than by studying all the imaginary rules of the modern critics . Theo- critus certainly intended to describe ...
... tion of bucolical or pastoral poetry , by attending carefully to the design of those great ancients , Theocritus and Virgil , than by studying all the imaginary rules of the modern critics . Theo- critus certainly intended to describe ...
Page xxvi
... tion of the second consulship of Pompey and Crassus . Therefore either the age of Virgil or the consuls must be wrong : I be- lieve the mistake lies in the con- suls , and that the age is right , being according to the Roman custom ...
... tion of the second consulship of Pompey and Crassus . Therefore either the age of Virgil or the consuls must be wrong : I be- lieve the mistake lies in the con- suls , and that the age is right , being according to the Roman custom ...
Page xxvii
... tion to hear what he would say , when he proceeded thus ; Ac- cording to the best of my judg- ment , you must be the son of a baker . Cæsar was astonished , and was revolving in his mind how this could be , when Virgil of Rome ...
... tion to hear what he would say , when he proceeded thus ; Ac- cording to the best of my judg- ment , you must be the son of a baker . Cæsar was astonished , and was revolving in his mind how this could be , when Virgil of Rome ...
Page lvii
... tion of the golden age , are suited very well to pas- toral poetry . Cæsar and Anthony now made a new partition of the world ; all toward the east , from Codropo- lis , a town of Illyricum within the Adriatic , being assigned to Anthony ...
... tion of the golden age , are suited very well to pas- toral poetry . Cæsar and Anthony now made a new partition of the world ; all toward the east , from Codropo- lis , a town of Illyricum within the Adriatic , being assigned to Anthony ...
Page lxxxi
... tion was soon diminished by the death of young Marcellus , who , being treated exactly in the same manner , died under his hands . This Marcellus was the son of Octavia , the darling sister of Au- gustus , by her former husband . He ...
... tion was soon diminished by the death of young Marcellus , who , being treated exactly in the same manner , died under his hands . This Marcellus was the son of Octavia , the darling sister of Au- gustus , by her former husband . He ...
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Page 195 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 141 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Page 17 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 39 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Page 141 - Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Page 117 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 305 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Page 39 - And when he putteth forth his own sheep he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers.
Page lxxxi - Romula quondam Ullo se tantum tellus jactabit alumno. Heu pietas! heu prisca fides invictaque bello Dextera ! Non illi se quisquam impune tulisset Obvius armato, seu cum pedes iret in hostem, Seu spumantis equi foderet calcaribus armos.
Page 229 - The silent fisher casts the insidious food. With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quivering to the skies : So the foul monster lifts her prey on high, So pant the wretches struggling in the sky : In the wide dungeon she devours her food, And the flesh trembles while she churns the blood.