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Virgil Quotes

That day I shall always recollect with grief; with reverence also, for the gods so willed it Picture Quote #1

Now, every field and every tree is in bloom; the woods are now in full leaf, and the year is in its highest beauty Picture Quote #1

This shall be thy work: to improve conditions of peace, to spare the lowly, and to overthrow the proud Picture Quote #1

His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles Picture Quote #1

O boys, who pluck the flowers and strawberries springing from the ground, flee hence; a cold snake likes hidden in the grass Picture Quote #1

And for exile they change their homes and pleasant thresholds, and seek a country lying beneath another sun Picture Quote #1

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The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and can not keep within due bounds when elated by prosperity Picture Quote #1

Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part Picture Quote #1

Thy verses are as pleasing to me, o divine poet, as sleep is to the wearied on the soft turf Picture Quote #1

Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress Picture Quote #1

Every man has his appointed day; life is brief and irrevocable; but it is the work of virtue to extend our fame by our deeds Picture Quote #1

Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you! Picture Quote #1

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason? Picture Quote #1

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words Picture Quote #1

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil Picture Quote #1

If American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran Picture Quote #1

Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists Picture Quote #1

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld Picture Quote #1

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[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot Picture Quote #1

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That day I shall always recollect with grief; with reverence also, for the gods so willed it (Virgil Quotes) Now, every field and every tree is in bloom; the woods are now in full leaf, and the year is in its highest beauty (Virgil Quotes) This shall be thy work: to improve conditions of peace, to spare the lowly, and to overthrow the proud (Virgil Quotes) His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles (Virgil Quotes) O boys, who pluck the flowers and strawberries springing from the ground, flee hence; a cold snake likes hidden in the grass (Virgil Quotes) And for exile they change their homes and pleasant thresholds, and seek a country lying beneath another sun (Virgil Quotes) The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and can not keep within due bounds when elated by prosperity (Virgil Quotes) Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part (Virgil Quotes) Thy verses are as pleasing to me, o divine poet, as sleep is to the wearied on the soft turf (Virgil Quotes) Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress (Virgil Quotes) Every man has his appointed day; life is brief and irrevocable; but it is the work of virtue to extend our fame by our deeds (Virgil Quotes) Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you! (Virgil Quotes) To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason? (Virgil Quotes) Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words (Virgil Quotes) Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil (Virgil Quotes) If American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran (Virgil Quotes) Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists. (Virgil Quotes) A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld. (Virgil Quotes) [Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot. (Virgil Quotes)

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