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... poet who learned it . Virgil alone of his race raised Latin to the rank of a great poetic language , and even he not completely . But under his hands the hexameter takes on a subtler and mellower harmony . It is true that he also shared ...
... poet who learned it . Virgil alone of his race raised Latin to the rank of a great poetic language , and even he not completely . But under his hands the hexameter takes on a subtler and mellower harmony . It is true that he also shared ...
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... poet and have here been spending some time in exposing his deficiencies . I do not plead guilty , for there are more kinds of poet than one . I think that Virgil was a great poet of a particular kind , but that he seems to have taken ...
... poet and have here been spending some time in exposing his deficiencies . I do not plead guilty , for there are more kinds of poet than one . I think that Virgil was a great poet of a particular kind , but that he seems to have taken ...
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... poets of the world . He is , beyond all others the poet of the pathos of two things , the inevitable and the unattainable . Look at some of his favourite epithets and some of his memorable phrases , irrevocabile tempus , ineluctabile ...
... poets of the world . He is , beyond all others the poet of the pathos of two things , the inevitable and the unattainable . Look at some of his favourite epithets and some of his memorable phrases , irrevocabile tempus , ineluctabile ...
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