Word: aeneid
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...books lately published by Putnam's Sons is a new translation of the first six books of the AEneid, by Henry Hamilton. The author prefaces the book with an apology for adding another translation to the already large number. Feeling, however, that Conington has not wholly succeeded in bringing out the spirit of the original, he has tried to improve on the latter's work It must be confessed that Mr. Hamilton has attempted a formidable task in entering into competition with so illustrious a translator as Conington. The author of this new edition has succeeded fairly well in what...
...Virgil's AEneid. The first six books translated by Henry Hamilton. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York...
...Woods, he was very neglectful of his academic duties, and on one occasion, when he was told for some misdemeanor to learn a hundred lines of Virgil, he gained a reward of a day to be given up to pigeon shooting by committing a whole book of the AEneid...
...week's Nation reviews Professor Greenough's edition of the last six books of Virgil's Aeneid and the Georgics, and Dr. Peabody's translation of "Cicero de Officis." In a view of an English edition of the 'Trinummus' of Plautus the presentation of the play at Westminster School is characterized as a performance which "will light up the 'Trinummus' wonderfully, even for those who read it under the Pope Professor at Harvard College...
...Descent into Hades, from Virgil's AEneid, Book VI, will be read by Mr. Parker this evening in Sever...