The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Volum 2

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Pàgina 209 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights; and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each shoulder, broad, came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, And colours dipt in heaven; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail, Sky-tinctured grain. Like Maia's son he stood, And shook...
Pàgina 20 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each; it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Pàgina 167 - On either side a formidable shape ; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With...
Pàgina 15 - As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil. He has none of...
Pàgina 13 - Odyssey, though at the same time those who have treated this great poet with candour, have attributed this defect to the times in which he lived. It was the fault of the age, and not of Homer, if there wants that delicacy in some of his sentiments, which now appears in the works of men of a much inferior genius.
Pàgina 23 - These lines are perhaps as plain, simple and unadorned as any of the whole poem; in which particular the author has conformed himself to the example of Homer, and the precept of Horace.
Pàgina 209 - At once on th' eaftern cliff of Paradife 175 He lights, and to his proper fhape returns A Seraph wing'd; fix wings he wore, to fhade His lineaments divine; the pair that clad Each fhoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breaft With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a ftarry zone his...
Pàgina 15 - He has none of those trifling points and puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid, none of the epigrammatic turns of Lucan, none of those swelling sentiments which are so frequent in Statius and Claudian, none of those mixed embellishments of Tasso.
Pàgina 238 - ... to people's imagination. I have taken an example from a poet to give you a livelier image of what I mean by painting in eloquence : for poets paint in a stronger manner than orators.
Pàgina 78 - Venus, he is prevailed upon to leave the town, and settle his household gods in another country. In order to this, he carries off his father on his shoulders, and leads his little son by the hand, his wife following him behind. When he comes to the place appointed for the general rendezvous, he finds a great confluence of people, but misses his wife, whose ghost afterwards appears to him, and tells him the land which was designed for him.

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