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You 3 From the indifferent success which has attended the several attempts to
translate Virgil into our language , one would be at first led to imagine that it is
next to impossible to transfuse the spirit of Roman poetry into English , and to
cast the ...
You 3 From the indifferent success which has attended the several attempts to
translate Virgil into our language , one would be at first led to imagine that it is
next to impossible to transfuse the spirit of Roman poetry into English , and to
cast the ...
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Such is the common inferiority of translation . With respect to Virgil , the difficulty
consists perhaps in this . One of the principal charms of his poetry lies in the
admirable choice of his terms , the most significant and sonorous in which his
images ...
Such is the common inferiority of translation . With respect to Virgil , the difficulty
consists perhaps in this . One of the principal charms of his poetry lies in the
admirable choice of his terms , the most significant and sonorous in which his
images ...
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The fourth book of Virgil is completely dramatick , with strict preservation of
character , the most affecting pathos , and the most tragick catastrophe . In this
book he has penetraced into the recesses of the female heart with an intuition
like .
The fourth book of Virgil is completely dramatick , with strict preservation of
character , the most affecting pathos , and the most tragick catastrophe . In this
book he has penetraced into the recesses of the female heart with an intuition
like .
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Now , near two thousand years since Virgil's birth , The sun , grown older , has
illumin'd earth , 2471 And Virgil is supposed to have employed seven years in the
composition of his Georgicks , the most perfect poem in the opinion of many very
...
Now , near two thousand years since Virgil's birth , The sun , grown older , has
illumin'd earth , 2471 And Virgil is supposed to have employed seven years in the
composition of his Georgicks , the most perfect poem in the opinion of many very
...
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2475 TIBULin the Seasons ; the structure of Virgil's verse cannot be altered
without injuring the harmony or the image . Thomson's episodes are very justly
commended ; yet the Pastor Aristæus in the fourth Georgick is superior to any of
them .
2475 TIBULin the Seasons ; the structure of Virgil's verse cannot be altered
without injuring the harmony or the image . Thomson's episodes are very justly
commended ; yet the Pastor Aristæus in the fourth Georgick is superior to any of
them .
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Page 136 - Bene et composite C. Caesar paulo ante in hoc ordine de vita et morte disseruit, credo, falsa existumans quae de inferis memorantur, divorso itinere malos a bonis loca taetra, inculta, foeda atque formidulosa habere. Itaque censuit pecunias eorum publicandas, ipsos per municipia in custodiis habendos...
Page 257 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
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Page 23 - ... primum ultimumque illud supplicium apud Romanos exempli parum memoris legum humanarum fuit, in aliis gloriari licet, nulli gentium mitiores placuisse poenas.
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| Title | Roman Portraits, a Poem, in Heroick Verse; with Historical Remarks and Illustrations: by Robert Jephson, Esq Roman Portraits, a Poem, in Heroick Verse; with Historical Remarks and Illustrations: by Robert Jephson, Esq, Robert Jephson |
| Author | Robert Jephson |
| Publisher | Henry Baldwin, 1794 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 4 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 275 pages |
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