Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

The Æneid of Virgil [from The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English. The original Text correctly printed from the most authentic Editions, collated for this Purpose. The Æneid Translated By the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, The Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes on the Whole, By the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton. With several New Observations By Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, and Others. Also, A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the Æneid, by Mr. Warburton. On the Shield of Æneas, by Mr. W. Whitehead. On the Character of Japis, by the late Dr. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. And, Three Essays on Pastoral, Didactic and Epic Poetry, by the Editor]

London

Printed for R. Dodsley [etc.]

1753

Aeneas's grief and distress were an "indication of his great tenderness, sensibility, and conjugal affection; and as such, must needs make a very deep impression on Dido's Heart"

1034. And in the shade on dear Creüsa cry,)
The grief and distress with which Æneas says he was o'erwhelmed, at the loss of his wife, his care and diligence in searching for her, and his venturing back again, alone and unassisted, into the thickest of the enemy, to find her; were all a plain indication of his great tenderness, sensibility, and conjugal affection; and as such, must needs make a very deep impression on Dido's Heart. Profecto, me horror capit atque etiam quatit, ubi videre, atque audire videor, in nocte, inter hostes, fortem simul atque pium virum, etiam clamore carissimam uxorem quaerere.

Scaliger.

Si sic ------ omnia dixisset!

Impressions

Searching "heart" and "impression" in HDIS (Poetry)

05/16/2005