 | Virgil - 1858 - 452 pagine
...and then, after adverting to the humbler pleasures of a country life, commemorates the happiness of the man who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things, and so trampled under foot all fears, and fate's relentless decree, and the roar of insatiate Acheron.... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1858 - 436 pagine
...and then, after adverting to the humbler pleasures of a country life, commemorates the happiness of the man who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things, and so trampled under foot all fears, and fate's relentless decree, and the roar of insatiate Acheron.... | |
 | Virgil - 1865 - 468 pagine
...and then, after adverting to the humbler pleasures of a country life, commemorates the happiness of the man who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things, and so trampled under foot all fears, and fate's relentless decree, and the roar of insatiate Acheron.... | |
 | John Conington - 1872 - 558 pagine
...set me down in the cool glens of Hasmus, and shelter me beneath the giant shade of its boughs ! Happy the man who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things, and so trampled under foot all fears and fate's relentless decree, and the roar of insatiate Acheron. Yet... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1886 - 898 pagine
...the consciousness of the race by the pen of poet and philosopher. " Happy the man," sang Virgil, ',' who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things,...even Pan, and old Silvanus, and the sister nymphs Thrice happy he who has strength "to do these things, and not to leave the others undone." Firmly centred... | |
 | 1886 - 406 pagine
...consciousness of the race by the pen of poet and philosopher. " Happy the man," sang Virgil, ''who has jained a knowledge of the causes of things, and trampled...Knows the rustic gods — even Pan, and old Silvanus, jyid the sister nymphs." Thrice happy he who has strength " to do these things, and not to leave the... | |
 | 1886 - 886 pagine
...the consciousness of the race by the pen of poet and philosopher. " Happy the man,' ' sang Virgil, " who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things,...Yet not less blest is he who knows the rustic gods — 8o FISH OUT OF WATER. Si even Pan, and old Silvanus, and the sister nymphs Thrice happy he who... | |
 | 1886 - 520 pagine
...the consciousness of the race by the pen of poet and philosopher. " Happy the man," sang Virgil, " who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things,...foot, and risen above relentless Fate and the hungry clamour of death. Yet not less blest is he who knows the rustic gods — even Pan, and old Silvanus,... | |
 | Virgil - 1898 - 544 pagine
...and then, after adverting to the humbler pleasures of a country life, commemorates the happiness of the man who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things, and so trampled under foot all fears, and fate's relentless decree, and the roar of insatiate Acheron.... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1912 - 460 pagine
...than this, for the language of passion in the Aeneid is clearer, stronger, and more simple. 1 "Happy the man who has gained a knowledge of the causes of things" (Conington). It is in such phrases as this — eg stint lacrimac rerum — that Virgil is hardest to... | |
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... swell to the bursting of their barriers and settle down again on themselves, why the winter suns make such haste to dip in ocean, or what is the retarding cause which makes the nights move slowly ; — and then, after adverting to the humbler pleasures... 