AEneid

The sixth book of the AEneid is the most pleasing and perfect composition of Latin poetry.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

The sixth book of the AEneid is the most pleasing and perfect composition of Latin poetry.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765

The sixth book of the AEneid is the most pleasing and perfect composition of Latin poetry.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765

The sixth book of the AEneid is the most pleasing and perfect composition of Latin poetry.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765

"AEneid," his artificial and unfinished epic, that won Virgil the favour of the Middle Aces.

Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878

All that tide had passed over, all the story of the "AEneid" is mere borrowed antiquity, like the Middle

Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878

Roman poets knew her best as an enemy of their fabulous ancestors, and in the "AEneid," Virgil's hero draws his sword to slay her.

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

Virgil, in writing the "AEneid," executed an imperial commission, and an ungrateful commission; it is the sublime of hack-work, and the legend may be true which declares that, on his death-bed, he wished his poem burned.

Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878

The "AEneid" is rendered with a roughness which might better befit a translation of Ennius.

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

"AEneid" daily parsed, not without stripes and anguish.

Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878