Virgil - Aeneid

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These success encourages: they can because they think they can.

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A monstrous bulk, deformed, deprived of sight.

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Like rock engirdled by the sea,
Like rock immovable is he.

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He prays to the spirit of the place and to Earth, the first of the gods, and to the Nymphs and as yet unknown rivers.

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Good speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars!

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I yield to Fate, unwillingly retire,
And, loaded, up the hill convey my sire.

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What perils his from war and sea!

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Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings.

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Thrice would I have thrown my arms about her neck, and thrice the ghost embraced fled from my grasp: like a fluttering breeze, like a fleeting dream.

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Each look is pictured in her breast,
Each word: nor passion lets her rest.

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Few in number, yet theirs is a valor ardent for war.

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Thus she spoke and turned away with a flash of her rosy neck, and her ambrosial hair exhaled a divine fragrance; her dress flowed right down to her feet and her true godhead was evident from her walk.

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An old story, but the glory of it is forever.

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Now listen while my tongue declares
The tale you ask of Danaan snares,
And gather from a single charge
Their catalogue of crimes at large.

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Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill) and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the mighty from their seat.

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In vain she strives with dying hands
To wrench away the blade:
Fixed in her ribs the weapon stands,
Closed by the wound it made.
Bloodless and faint, she gasps for breath;
Her heavy eyes sink down in death;
Her cheek's bright colors fade.

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My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave,
And now I pass, a queenly shade,
Majestic to the grave.

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And the most miserable things which I myself saw and of which I was a major part.

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Learn of your father to be great,
Of others to be fortunate.

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Live and be blest! 'tis sweet to feel
Fate's book is closed and under seal.
For us, alas! that volume stern
Has many another page to turn.

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Lo, great Marcellus! see him tower,
With kingly spoils in conquering power,
The warrior host above!

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His limbs were cold in death; his spirit fled with a groan, indignant, to the shades below.

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The spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout the living parts activates the whole mass and mingles with the vast frame.

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'Tis here, in diff'rent paths, the way divides.

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Rage boiling from the bottom of his breast,
And sorrow, mix'd with shame, his soul oppress'd;
And conscious worth lay lab'ring in his thought;
And love by jealousy to madness wrought.

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Sighs, groans, and tears, proclaim his inward pains,
But the firm purpose of his heart remains.

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That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.

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Who knows what changeful fortune may produce?

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Now, prostrate by an unmeant wound,
In death he welters on the ground,
And gazing on Italian skies
Of his loved Argos dreams, and dies.

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Be this your nobler praise in times to come,
These your imperial arts, ye sons of Rome!
O'er distant realms to stretch your awful sway,
To bid those nations tremble and obey;
To crush the proud, the suppliant foe to rear,
To give mankind a peace, or shake the world with war.

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