Vergil in the Middle AgesS. Sonnenschein & Company, 1895 - 376 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 24 - Cetera sane vita et ore et animo tarn probum constat, ut Neapoli Parthenias vulgo appellatus sit ac, si quando Romae, quo rarissime commeabat, viseretur in publico, sectantis demonstrantisque se subterfugere[t] in proximum tectum.
Pàgina 251 - During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree than any other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation.
Pàgina 16 - Aenea quidem meo, si mehercle iam dignum auribus haberem tuis, libenter mitterem, sed tanta inchoata res est, ut paene vitio mentis tantum opus ingressus mihi videar, cum praesertim, ut scis, alia quoque studia ad id opus multoque potiora impertiar (1).
Pàgina 53 - could only have arisen among people who had learnt Vergil mechanically and did not know of any better use to which to put all these verses with which they had loaded their brains.
Pàgina ix - PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE object of this work is to show how the States of Europe have gained the form and character which they possess at the present moment.
Pàgina 313 - Sibyl to enquire of her concerning the divine honours decreed him by the Senate. The Sibyl answered him that the king who was to reign eternally should come from heaven; and straightway the heavens opened and Augustus saw a virgin of marvellous beauty seated on an altar with a child in her arms, and heard a voice saying, ' This is the altar of the Son of God.
Pàgina 145 - In freta dum fluvii current, dum montibus umbrae Lustrabunt convexa, polus dum sidera pascet, Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, Quae me cumque vocant terrae.
Pàgina 343 - Then up to Naples, rich Campania, Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, The streets straight forth, and pav'd with finest brick, Quarter the town in four equivalents; There saw we learned Maro's golden tomb, The way he cut, an English mile in length, Thorough a rock of stone, in one night's space...
Pàgina 291 - Calanfon, written some time between 1215 and 1220,4 there is a lengthy account of the necessary stock-in-trade of a street minstrel. After enumerating the various instruments which he must 1 According to the medieval etymology : " mantia, Graece divinatio dicitur, et nigro, quasi nigra, unde Nigromantia, nigra divinatio, quia ad atra daemoniorum vincula utentes se adducit.
Pàgina 153 - Si quis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi me legat et lecto carmine doctus amet.