item: #1 of 4 id: 18466 author: Virgil title: The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse date: None words: 109791 flesch: 88 summary: Full many a people,--let the fates attest Of great AEneas, and his hand of might, Ne'er pledged in vain, our bravest and our best-- Full many a tribe, though lowly be our plight, Have sought with ours their fortunes to unite. Lo! from Inachian Argos through the skies Jove's consort her avenging flight pursues, And far off, from Pachynus, as she flies O'er Sicily, beholds the Dardan crews And great AEneas, gladdening at the news. keywords: aeneas; aid; anchises; arms; battle; bear; blood; brave; breast; care; city; cries; dardan; dark; day; dead; death; deep; dido; divine; doth; earth; eyes; face; fair; fame; far; fate; father; fear; fierce; fight; fire; flames; fly; foe; forth; fray; friends; goddess; gods; golden; great; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; home; huge; jove; juno; king; land; latin; lay; left; let; lies; life; love; main; man; men; mother; near; new; o'er; pallas; plain; poor; prayer; queen; race; rest; round; sea; shield; ships; shore; sire; skies; sky; son; sons; spake; spear; stand; sword; thee; thine; thou; thy; town; train; trojan; troy; turnus; vain; venus; walls; war; way; woe; words; youth cache: 18466.txt plain text: 18466.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 22456 author: Virgil title: The Aeneid of Virgil date: None words: 100609 flesch: 78 summary: Or do thou plunge to death this remnant, if I deserve it, with levelled thunderbolt, and here with thine own hand smite us down.' To him Tullus shall next succeed, who shall break the peace of his country and stir to arms men rusted from war and armies now disused to triumphs; and hard on him over-vaunting Ancus follows, even now too elate in popular breath. keywords: aeneas; air; altars; anchises; armour; arms; battle; blood; body; breast; city; comrades; cries; day; death; deep; earth; eyes; face; fate; father; fields; fire; fleet; flight; follow; fortune; gates; goddess; gods; gold; great; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; horses; house; italy; juno; king; land; left; life; lord; love; man; men; mighty; mother; night; pallas; people; race; rest; river; round; sea; set; shield; ships; shore; sky; son; spear; steel; strength; sword; teucrians; thee; thine; thou; thy; town; trojan; troy; turnus; walls; war; water; way; weapons; words cache: 22456.txt plain text: 22456.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 29358 author: Virgil title: The Æneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse date: None words: 113008 flesch: 81 summary: Long exile is in store for thee, huge plain of sea to plough, 780 Then to Hesperia shalt thou come, where Lydian Tiber's wave The wealthiest meads of mighty men with gentle stream doth lave: There happy days and lordship great, and kingly wife, are born For thee. We 'neath thy care and in thy keel have climbed the swelling sea, And we shall bear unto the stars thy sons that are to be, And give thy city majesty: make ready mighty wall For mighty men, nor toil of way leave thou, though long it fall. keywords: adown; arms; battle; bear; blood; body; cast; city; come; day; days; dead; death; deep; doth; e'en; earth; eyes; face; fair; fall; fate; father; fear; fell; fight; fire; folk; forth; gave; gods; good; great; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; hold; holy; host; house; italy; king; land; lay; left; lie; life; love; man; men; mid; mighty; mother; nought; o'er; old; place; round; sea; set; shield; ships; shore; son; spake; spear; sword; tale; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; town; trojan; troy; turnus; unto; walls; war; way; ways; wind; wise; words; wrought; yea; æneas cache: 29358.txt plain text: 29358.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 6003 author: Clarke, Michael title: Story of Aeneas date: None words: 40308 flesch: 79 summary: Nisus, too, claimed a reward, and AEneas sympathising with his misfortune, presented to him a shield of beautiful workmanship, which had been taken from the pillars of Neptune's temple in the city of Troy. Games of boxing and archery--shooting with bows and arrows--came next. It is said that Vergil wrote the AEneid at the request of the Emperor Augustus, whose family--the Ju'li-i--claimed the honor of being descended from AEneas, through his son I-u'lus or Ju'lus. keywords: aeneas; aeneid; arms; battle; book; chief; city; conington; country; day; death; dryden; father; goddess; gods; great; hand; heaven; hero; italy; juno; king; land; men; people; place; queen; sea; ships; son; sword; time; trojan; troy; turnus; walls; war; way; words cache: 6003.txt plain text: 6003.txt