Tell me, are you not under original sin by the dedication of your Eclogues to Lord Bolingbroke?
And though the aspect which Nature generally presents in the poem is that of her nobler mood, yet that air of indolent repose which characterises her presence in the Eclogues is not altogether absent from the severer poem.
There still remain the eighth and tenth Eclogues to be examined.
The scenes and personages of the Eclogues are thus one stage further removed from actuality than those of the Greek pastoral.
In the Ecloguesshe takes rather the form of an enchantress, who, by the charm of her outward mien and her freely-offered gifts, fascinates him into a life of indolent repose.
There are in theEclogues notices of other poets of the district, whose friendship he enjoyed or whose jealousy he excited.
The Eclogues of Virgil are in form and even in substance a closer reproduction of a Greek original than any other branch of Latin literature, with the exception of the comedy of Terence.
The rhythm which in the other Eclogues reproduces the Theocritean cadences is in this more stately and uniform, recalling those of Catullus in his longest poem.
In this poem only Virgil, whose muse even in the Eclogues is almost always serious or plaintive, endeavours to reproduce the playfulness and vivacity of his original.
Encina's eclogues are simple compositions, with little pretence to dramatic artifice.
In Spenser's Eclogues the awkwardness is greater than in Castiglione's.
Niccolo da Correggio put the tale of Cephalus and Procris on the stage at Ferrara, with choruses of nymphs, vows to Diana, eclogues between Corydon and Thyrsis, a malignant Faun, and a dea ex machina to close the scene.
Not less artificial and decidedly less original than the prose, Sannazzaro's lyrics and eclogues do not demand particular attention.
Several of the Ecloguesare modelled on Theocritus (cf.
But the story, however pretty, cannot be true, as Cicero died before the Eclogues were composed.
To Nero's reign are probably to be referred the seven eclogues of T.
Said to have been uttered by Cicero on hearing the Eclogues read; the rima spes Romae being of course the orator himself.
He wrote eclogues in the style of Theocritus, epistles on the lines of those of Horace, plays based on Terence, and sonnets of which the form was borrowed from the Italian writers of the Renaissance.
He wrote sonnets after the manner of Petrarch, elegies after Ariosto, eclogues after Virgil, and odes and epistles after Horace; but his greatest work was a drama founded on the model of the ancient Greek tragedies.
Authors wrapped up as shepherds their political friends and enemies, and the pastoraleclogues in verse which Spenser and others composed are full of personal and political allusion.
Formerly eleven eclogues were attributed to him, but it is now evident that he was the author of only seven, the remainder being probably the work of Nemesianus, who lived in the first half of the third century.
In the Eclogues and the Georgics, the memory of the old farm at Andes breaks through the more conventional sentiment of Alexandrian tradition.
His Eclogueswere chanted on the stage; verses of the Aeneid can still be seen, along with verses of Propertius, scrawled on the walls of Campanian towns.
A friend of Lope de Vega, and the author of lyrics and eclogues in the Italian manner, published under the title of Desengaños de amor, Madrid, 1623.
His eclogues were, perhaps, the first Spanish dramas actually staged.
But very little of his work is in the old Castilian manner; the Italians are his masters in the important part of his production, although the eclogues show also a Vergilian influence.
His ecloguesin endecasyllables are an echo of those of Camoens, but like his other verses they are inferior to his redondilhas, which show the traditional fount of his inspiration.
A Fig for Momus, on the strength of which he has been called the earliest English satirist, and which contains eclogues addressed to Daniel and others, an epistle addressed to Drayton, and other pieces, appeared in 1595.
As to the Eclogues themselves, they give a very just view of the miseries and inconveniences, as well as the felicities, that attend one of the finest countries in the East.
Tis a Mistake to say that Virgil's fourth and fifth Eclogues are not Pastorals; and that nothing sublime, but every Thing simple and rustic, is compatible with this Kind of Poetry.
This is what may be justly pleaded for all the Eclogues of Virgil, where Arms are mentioned; excepting only the tenth: Nunc insanus amor duri me Martis in armis Tela inter media, atque adversos detinet hostes.
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