...keeping step. Take the opening lines, which are characteristic both in Virgil and in Conington: — ' Arms and the man I sing, who first By Fate of Ilian...heaven, to sate Fell Juno's unforgetting hate : Much laboured too in battle-field, Striving his city's walls to build, And give his Gods a home ; Thence...

...his adventures since the siege of Troy, which is the subject of the two following books. THE BOOK I. ARMS and the man I sing, who firs.t, By Fate of Ilian...Lavinium's shore : — Long tossing earth and ocean o'en By violence of heaven, to sate Fell Juno's unforgetting hate<: Much labored too in battle-field,...

...the change is comparatively inconsiderable. THE BOOK I. ARMS and the man I sing, who first, By fete of Ilian realm amerced, To fair Italia onward bore,...ocean o'er, By violence of heaven, to sate Fell Juno's nnforgetting hate : Much laboured too in battle-field, Striving his city's walls to build, And give...

...Homer, Virgil dashes at once into the heart of his story. This is how he introduces his hero : — " Arms and the man I sing, who first, By fate of Ilian...Italia onward bore, And landed on Lavinium's shore." * He tells us nothing, however, for the present, of the escape from Troy and the embarkation of the...

...once into the heart of his story. This is how he introduces his hero :— " Arms and the man I aing, who first, By fate of Ilian realm amerced, To fair...Italia onward bore, And landed on Lavinium's shore." * He tells us nothing, however, for the present, of the escape from Troy and the embarkation of the...

...and a poet, hark in with the vulgar cry. Let him rather take into his hand that first strophe of his: Arms and the man I sing, who first, by fate of Ilian realm amerced, to fair Italia onioard bore, and landed on Lat'inium's shore : — long tossing earth and ocean o'er, by violence...

...onward bore. and landed on Laviniuin's shore:— long tossing earth and ocoan o'er.— made him much dig in battle-field. striving his city's walls to build. and give his Gods that homo, whence come the hardy Latin brood, the ancient dukes of /Vlba's blood. and lofly-r.-unpired...

...Homer, Virgil dashes at once into the heart of his story. This is how he introduces his hero :— " Arms and the man I sing, who first, By fate of Ilian...Italia onward bore, And landed on Lavinium's shore." * He tells us nothing, however, for the present, of the escape from Troy and the embarkation of the...

...Homer, Virgil dashes at once into the heart of his story. This is how he introduces his hero : — " Arms and the man I sing, who first, By fate of Ilian...amerced, To fair Italia onward bore, And landed on Lavini urn's shore." * He tells us nothing, however, for the present, of the escape from Troy and the...

...JEneas, the legendary ancestor of the Romans. Virgil sums up his plot in the opening lines : — " Arms and the man I sing, who first, By Fate of Ilian...amerced, To fair Italia onward bore, And landed on Lavininm's shore: — Long tossing earth and ocean o'er, By violence of heaven, to sate Fell Juno's...