The Eneis, books 1. and ii. rendered into Engl. blank iambic with new interpretations, by J. Henry

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Pagina 76 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Pagina 56 - My story being done She gave me for my pains a world of sighs, She swore in faith 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man.
Pagina 111 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Pagina 126 - So spake the enemy of mankind enclosed In serpent, inmate bad ! and toward Eve Addressed his way, not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds that towered Fold above fold, a surging maze...
Pagina 76 - Laocoon, Neptune's priest by lot that year, With solemn pomp then sacrificed a steer ; When (dreadful to behold !) from sea we spied Two serpents, ranked abreast, the seas divide, And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide.
Pagina 123 - ... flock together, prest to pass with heart and goods to whatsoever land by sliding seas me listed them to lead. And now rose Lucifer above the ridge of lusty Ide, and brought the dawning light; the Greeks held the entries of the gates beset: of help there was no hope. Then gave I place, took up my sire, and hasted to the hill.
Pagina 123 - Thrice did my hands' vain hold the image escape, Like nimble winds and like the flying dream. So, night spent out, return I to my feres ; * And there, wond'ring, I find together swarmed A new number of mates : mothers and men, A rout exiled, a wretched multitude, From each where...
Pagina 7 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bowed their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.
Pagina 50 - They then received a suitable exhortation on the nature and design of marriage, and an injunction to live piously and chastely until that event should take place.
Pagina 110 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.

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