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1  Nay, he it was who besought and enjoined me to seek thy grace and draw nigh thy courts.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SIXTH
2  Euryalus is strong in favour, and beauty in tears, and the merit that gains grace from so fair a form.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FIFTH
3  This one thing I beseech thee, by whatsoever grace a vanquished enemy may claim: allow my body sepulture.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TENTH
4  Mark the lineaments of divine grace and the gleaming eyes, what a breath is hers, what a countenance, and the sound of her voice and the steps of her going.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FIFTH
5  Be there one to commit me duly to earth, rescued or ransomed from the battlefield: or, if fortune deny that, to pay me far away the rites of funeral and the grace of a tomb.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK NINTH
6  Yet if we are thus terror-stricken heart and soul, let us implore him in person, in person plead him of his grace to give way, to restore king and country their proper right.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
7  At once he does his bidding; at once, for a god willed it, the Phoenicians allay their haughty temper; the queen above all takes to herself grace and compassion towards the Teucrians.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FIRST
8  We shall not disgrace the kingdom; nor will the rumour of your renown be lightly gone or the grace of all you have done fade away; nor will Ausonia be sorry to have taken Troy to her breast.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
9  Then the seed of Anchises commands an hundred envoys chosen of every degree to go to the stately royal city, all with the wreathed boughs of Pallas, to bear him gifts and desire grace for the Teucrians.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
10  First they visit the shrines, and desire grace from altar to altar; they sacrifice sheep fitly chosen to Ceres the Lawgiver, to Phoebus and lord Lyaeus, to Juno before all, guardian of the marriage bond.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FOURTH
11  Nymph, grace of rivers, best beloved of our soul, thou knowest how out of all the Latin women that ever rose to high-hearted Jove's thankless bed, thee only have I preferred and gladly given part and place in heaven.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
12  My father counsels to remeasure the sea and go again to Phoebus in his Ortygian oracle, to pray for grace and ask what issue he ordains to our exhausted state; whence he bids us search for aid to our woes, whither bend our course.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK THIRD
13  Here they lay him, high on their rustic strewing; even as some tender violet or drooping hyacinth-blossom plucked by a maiden's finger, whose sheen and whose grace is not yet departed, but no more does Earth the mother feed it or lend it strength.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
14  These words uttered, withdrawing swiftly homeward, he orders out his horses, and rejoicingly beholds them snorting before his face: those that Orithyia's self gave to grace Pilumnus, such as would excel the snows in whiteness and the gales in speed.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
15  In these woodlands dwelt Fauns and Nymphs sprung of the soil, and a tribe of men born of stocks and hard oak; who had neither law nor grace of life, nor did they know to yoke bulls or lay up stores or save their gains, but were nurtured by the forest boughs and the hard living of the huntsman.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
16  Aeneas stood discovered in sheen of brilliant light, like a god in face and shoulders; for his mother's self had shed on her son the grace of clustered locks, the radiant light of youth, and the lustre of joyous eyes; as when ivory takes beauty under the artist's hand, or when silver or Parian stone is inlaid in gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FIRST
17  And now envoys were there from the Latin city with wreathed boughs of olive, praying him of his grace to restore the dead that lay strewn by the sword over the plain, and let them go to their earthy grave: no war lasts with men conquered and bereft of breath; let this indulgence be given to men once called friends and fathers of their brides.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
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