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To this age also belong the collection of epigrams on Priapus called Priapea, and including many poems attributed to Virgil, Tibullus, and Ovid. They are mostly of an obscene character, but some few, especially those by Tibullus and Catullus which close the series, are simple and pretty.
Julius Caesar Scaliger! He was, I presume, a dictator in criticism. Mercury. Yes, and he has exercised his sovereign power over you. Horace. I will not presume to oppose it. I had enough of following Brutus at Philippi. Mercury. Talk to him a little. He'll amuse you. I brought him to you on purpose. Horace. Virgil, do you accost him. I can't do it with proper gravity. I shall laugh in his face.
The question can be answered only by pointing to that painful drill in Latin which the book-hating boy suffered under his uncle and his father, when, to his anguish, Virgil and Livy detained him anon from the true joys of existence.
She is gentle, affectionate, modest, and retiring, and much beloved by all the scholars. . . . I am still going on with my French, and carrying two young ladies through Virgil, and if I have time, shall commence Italian. I am very comfortable and happy. I propose, my dear grandmamma, to send you by the first opportunity a dish of fruit of my own painting.
That it should have come to occupy such a high position among the cultivated centers of the Renaissance seems singularly appropriate since Virgil, the Italian literary deity of the period, was born at Pietole, now a suburb of Mantua. The marquisate owed its elevation to the character of the great lords of the house of Gonzaga, who ruled it from 1328 to 1708.
There are dozens of chaps in the school who would be glad of a few hundred lines cheap." "It wouldn't work. They'd be spotted." "Rot. It's been done before, and nobody said anything. A chap in Seymour's who left last Easter sold all his stock lines by auction on the last day of term. They were Virgil mostly and Greek numerals. They sold like hot cakes.
Fertile fields streaked with furrows, honest peasants' cottages; under the trees a turf covered with shade, the lowing of cattle as in Virgil, and the smoke of hamlets penetrated by rays of sunshine; such was the complete picture. The clanging of anvils rang in the distance, the rhythm of work amidst the harmony of nature. I listened, I mused vaguely.
I saw that Marryat, not less than Homer, Milton, and Virgil, profited by the choice of a familiar and legendary subject; so that he prepared his readers on the very title-page; and this set me cudgelling my brains, if by any chance I could hit upon some similar belief to be the centre-piece of my own meditated fiction.
Mr Conington, therefore, thought the phrase a slip on the part of Virgil. But he was vexed by the hunters after remote and unconscious resemblances, and far-fetched analogies between his lines and those of others.
Embarking at Torregaveta, the little terminus of the Ferrovia Cumana, which traverses the classic district of the Phlegraean Fields, we are quickly transported in a small coasting steamer past the headland of Misenum to the island and port of Procida, the “alta Prochyta” of Virgil.
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