Vergil and the English Poets, Band 24Columbia University Press, 1919 - 251 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration Aeneid Alcuin allegorical allusions Beowulf burlesque Carthage century Chaucer chief Cicero classical epic Columbia University criticism death didactic Dido Dido and Aeneas Dido's Dryden echoes Eclogues edition Elizabethan Eneas England English epic poetry episode evidently example Faerie Queene familiar favorite Gavin Douglas Georgics golden Greek hero hexameters Homer Hous of Fame Iliad imitation influence of Vergil interest Italy J. W. MACKAIL John John of Salisbury knowledge Landor later Latin poet Legend letter lines literary literature Mantuan mediaeval Middle Ages Milton narrative nature original Ovid passage pastoral period Petrarch Ph.D poem poetry Pope Pope's popular praise Price prose Queene quotations quoted references Renaissance Rome says second book shepherds shows sixth book Spenser story of Aeneas tells Tennyson Theocritus thing Thomson tion translation Trojan Troy Turnus Venus Vergil Vergilian Vergilian influence verse words writers wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 226 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd ; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Seite 140 - As bees In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs: so thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were straitened; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder!
Seite 145 - Sad task! yet argument Not less but more heroic than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy wall; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused; Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplexed the Greek and Cytherea's son...
Seite 56 - Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit.
Seite 109 - He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay. At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue : To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Seite 196 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Seite 199 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains: They boast their peasants...
Seite 110 - Lo! I, the man whose Muse whylome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shephards weeds, Am now enforst, a farre unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds, And sing of knights...
Seite 143 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks Bowed their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer...
Seite 183 - And temper all, thou world-reviving Sun, Into the perfect year ! Nor ye who live In luxury and ease, in pomp and pride, Think these lost themes unworthy of your ear : Such themes as these the rural Maro sung To wide-imperial Rome, in the full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refined.