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... Troy , he raised the destinies of Rome to the old heroic level in the imaginations of men . But however much of Homer he may give to his readers , he never forgets his main purpose , to impress men with the dignity and greatness of Rome ...
... Troy , he raised the destinies of Rome to the old heroic level in the imaginations of men . But however much of Homer he may give to his readers , he never forgets his main purpose , to impress men with the dignity and greatness of Rome ...
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... Troy is captured , and Homer clearly conceives him as reigning at Troy after the departure of the Greeks . The later stories recount his wanderings about Europe after the fall of Troy : and these Vergil adopts , making many altera ...
... Troy is captured , and Homer clearly conceives him as reigning at Troy after the departure of the Greeks . The later stories recount his wanderings about Europe after the fall of Troy : and these Vergil adopts , making many altera ...
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... Troy falls , like an ash - tree hacked and hewn and shaken falls at length . In studying these similes we see at once what they add to the poem in the way of ornament or picturesque suggestiveness . Thus ( 2 ) is a vivid picture of the ...
... Troy falls , like an ash - tree hacked and hewn and shaken falls at length . In studying these similes we see at once what they add to the poem in the way of ornament or picturesque suggestiveness . Thus ( 2 ) is a vivid picture of the ...
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... Troy , the Second book is superior to all the rest of the Aeneid , the aforesaid two books alone excepted . A spectacle at once sad and majestic , like the struggle of the doomed city , with the gods against it : the dramatic irony of ...
... Troy , the Second book is superior to all the rest of the Aeneid , the aforesaid two books alone excepted . A spectacle at once sad and majestic , like the struggle of the doomed city , with the gods against it : the dramatic irony of ...
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... Troy . Danaus was the mythical king of Argos , and the name meant the Argives originally . 6. quorum pars magna fui , ' wherein I took great part ' , only the Latin is the more forcible expression . The meaning is that he was a main ...
... Troy . Danaus was the mythical king of Argos , and the name meant the Argives originally . 6. quorum pars magna fui , ' wherein I took great part ' , only the Latin is the more forcible expression . The meaning is that he was a main ...
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ACCORDING TO ST Achilles Adparent Aeneas Aeneid Anchises animi arma atque Ave Maria Lane caelo Calchas Cambridge Warehouse Catalogue circum cloth coniunx Coroebus Creusa Crown 8vo Crown Octavo Danai Danaum Demy 8vo Demy Octavo deum dextra divom domus Edition Editor English Notes enim Fellow of Trinity flammae gods GOSPEL ACCORDING Greek haec Hector Homer horse Iamque Introduction and Notes ipse Iuppiter king Laocoon Laomedon Latin limina LL.D M. T. Ciceronis M.A. Price magna manu Maps meaning mihi moenia muros Mycenas Neoptolemus numina nunc Octavo omnes Oratio P. G. TAIT Pallas Panthus patria phrase poem poenas poet poetic Priam Price 25 Professor Pyrrhus quae Quarto quid quod Revised Roman sanguine sense St John's College summa tela Teucri tibi translation Trinity College Troia Trojans Troy Ulixes ultro University of Cambridge urbi verb Vergil Vergilian word
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