The British Essayists: RamblerNichols and Son, 1817 |
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Page 26
... Æneid liable to exception upon this account , it is in the be- ginning of the third book , where Æneas is repre- sented as tearing up the myrtle that dropped blood . To qualify this wonderful circumstance , Polydorus tells a story from ...
... Æneid liable to exception upon this account , it is in the be- ginning of the third book , where Æneas is repre- sented as tearing up the myrtle that dropped blood . To qualify this wonderful circumstance , Polydorus tells a story from ...
Page 93
... Æneid to begin in the second book of that poem . I could allege many reasons for my drawing the action of the Æneid rather from its immediate beginning in the first book , than from its remote beginning in the second ; and shew why I ...
... Æneid to begin in the second book of that poem . I could allege many reasons for my drawing the action of the Æneid rather from its immediate beginning in the first book , than from its remote beginning in the second ; and shew why I ...
Page 215
... Æneid . The poet has likewise taken care to insert every circumstance of it in the body of his fable . The ninth book , which we are here to con- and sider , is raised upon that brief account in Scrip- dture , wherein we are told that ...
... Æneid . The poet has likewise taken care to insert every circumstance of it in the body of his fable . The ninth book , which we are here to con- and sider , is raised upon that brief account in Scrip- dture , wherein we are told that ...
Page 280
... Æneid . Virgil's hero , in the last of these poems , is enter- tained with a sight of all those who are to descend from him ; but though that episode is justly admir . ed as one of the noblest designs in the whole Æneid , every one must ...
... Æneid . Virgil's hero , in the last of these poems , is enter- tained with a sight of all those who are to descend from him ; but though that episode is justly admir . ed as one of the noblest designs in the whole Æneid , every one must ...
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... Æneid . Our author in his first edition had divided his poem into ten books , but afterwards broke the seventh and the eleventh each of them into two different books , by the help of some small additions . This second division was made ...
... Æneid . Our author in his first edition had divided his poem into ten books , but afterwards broke the seventh and the eleventh each of them into two different books , by the help of some small additions . This second division was made ...
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