"Vergil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as an orthodox satirist, was not fond of the weaker sex, women sometimes became over-educated. He growls as follows[188]: "That woman is a worse nuisance than usual who, as soon as she goes to bed, praises Vergil; makes excuses for doomed Dido; pits bards against one another and compares them; and weighs Homer and Maro in the balance. Teachers of literature give way, professors are vanquished, the whole mob is hushed, and no lawyer or auctioneer will speak, ...
— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker
... an allusion to the widespread superstition of the evil eye (mal occhio, mauvais il). Cf. Vergil, Ecl. iii. 103. He remarks that Pius IX., Gambetta, and President Carnot were charged by their enemies with ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.
... Kensington parish, a western suburb of the city, lying north of the Thames and four miles west-southwest of St. Paul's. In his poem Arnold contrasts the serenity of nature with the restlessness of modern life. "Not Lucan, not Vergil, only Wordsworth, has more beautifully expressed the spirit ...
— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold |
