The Æneid is a song of the future rather than of the present or past, a song not of pride but of duty.
From beginning to end the Æneid is a song of Rome.
The grandest picture in the Æneid reflects the terror of that hour of suspense when the galleys of Augustus jostled against the galleys of Antony.
Attractive as it undoubtedly is, the story of Dido is in the minds of nine modern readers out of ten fatal to the effect of the Æneid as a whole.
And thai within, that saw thame swa 605 So gret apparale schap till ma, Throu Crabbis consale, that wes sle, Ane cren thai haif gert dres up hey Rynand on quhelis, that thai mycht bring It quhar neid war of mast helping.
Bot the King, that in all assays 36 Wes fundyn wis and averte, Persavit thair subtilite, And that he neid that gat suld ga.
The messinger, but mair abade, Till his mastir his wais raide, 152 And his ansuer him tald alswith; Than wes na neidto mak him blithe.
The woman past befor thaim suttelly; Cawkit ilk yett, that thai neidnocht gang by.
The last years of his life were occupied in translating the works of Persius and Juvenal and the Æneid of Virgil.
Father Hardouin seems to have opened the way for Warburton, since he had discovered that the whole Æneid was an allegorical voyage of St. Peter to Rome!
When Dido in the fourth Æneid yielded to that fatal Temptation which ruined her, Virgil tells us the Earth trembled, the Heavens were filled with Flashes of Lightning, and the Nymphs howled upon the Mountain-Tops.
As Virgil's Vision in the sixth Æneid probably gave Milton the Hint of this whole Episode, the last Line is a Translation of that Verse, where Anchises mentions the Names of Places, which they were to bear hereafter.
If there be any Instance in the Æneid liable to Exception upon this Account, it is in the Beginning of the Third Book, where Æneas is represented as tearing up the Myrtle that dropped Blood.
I have often observed, with a secret Admiration, that the longest Reflection in the Æneid is in that Passage of the Tenth Book, where Turnus is represented as dressing himself in the Spoils of Pallas, whom he had slain.
If the Reader would be at the Pains to see how the Story of the Iliad and the Æneid is delivered by those Persons who act in it, he will be surprized to find how little in either of these Poems proceeds from the Authors.
Homer has been worst used by Perrault, who had not the least power of feeling his excellence; but the advocate of the newer age in his dialogue admits that the Æneid is superior to any modern epic.
The Æneid is spread over too long a space, and perhaps the latter books have not that intimate connection with the former that an epic poem requires.
The continuation of the Æneid by Maphæus he highly praises; Augerianus not at all.
The translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid by Anguillara, seems to have acquired the highest name with the critics;[1163] but that of the Æneid by Caro is certainly the best known in Europe.
The translation of the Æneid by Gawin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld, though we are not at present on the subject of poetry, may be here mentioned in connection with Scottish literature.
The first six books of the Æneid are extremely beautiful.
The six first books of the Æneid are extremely beautiful.
If the autograph manuscript of the Æneid had not been destroyed, centuries of collation and conjecture would have been saved, and the text of the Æneid would have been better than it is.
Martyn, the well-known author of tha dissertation on the Ãneid of Virgil, and Dr.
After a labour of eleven years, Virgil pronounced his Ãneid imperfect.
I neid wishe to you[88] no more prudence then Goddis grace, quhairof God send you plentie.
Than wes than," said Ledingtoun, "and now is now: We haif no neid of sick convocatiounis as sometimes we haif had.
Virgil, the Latin poet, has told in the Æneid the story of his troubles and adventures.
When he was ill and knew that he could not recover, he made a will, and in it he ordered the Æneid to be burned, because it was not so polished as he wished.
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