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... action in the ' Inferno ' and in the ' Shield " 27 29 of Aeneas ' The Aeneid a new type of epic poetry . PAGE 311 313 323 324 CHAPTER X. THE AENEID AS THE EPIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . I. Modes of National Sentiment expressed in the Aeneid ...
... action in the ' Inferno ' and in the ' Shield " 27 29 of Aeneas ' The Aeneid a new type of epic poetry . PAGE 311 313 323 324 CHAPTER X. THE AENEID AS THE EPIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . I. Modes of National Sentiment expressed in the Aeneid ...
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... action on the imagination , but in a more direct influence on opinion and conduct . Horace says of it , in the same passage as that referred to above , - ' It put a curb on licence violating all the rules of order , and caused ancient ...
... action on the imagination , but in a more direct influence on opinion and conduct . Horace says of it , in the same passage as that referred to above , - ' It put a curb on licence violating all the rules of order , and caused ancient ...
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... action . This ideal aspiration finds its expression not only in the two great poems of Virgil , whose whole nature was in thorough harmony with it , who may be regarded almost as the prophet of a new and purer religion , but in many of ...
... action . This ideal aspiration finds its expression not only in the two great poems of Virgil , whose whole nature was in thorough harmony with it , who may be regarded almost as the prophet of a new and purer religion , but in many of ...
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... action is projected into his own age , claims , for the restorer of order then , a vaster range of beneficent influence than that over which the civilising labours and conquests of Bacchus and Hercules had extended 2. In another passage ...
... action is projected into his own age , claims , for the restorer of order then , a vaster range of beneficent influence than that over which the civilising labours and conquests of Bacchus and Hercules had extended 2. In another passage ...
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... action of a supernatural power on all human , and especially all national , concerns : and it must have been equally difficult for any one trained in Greek philosophy to accept literally the incongruous fables of mythology , or to ...
... action of a supernatural power on all human , and especially all national , concerns : and it must have been equally difficult for any one trained in Greek philosophy to accept literally the incongruous fables of mythology , or to ...
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Page 164 - ... hinc tibi quae semper vicino ab limite saepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti saepe levi somnum suadebit inire susurro hinc alta sub rupe canet frondator ad auras nee tamen interea raucae tua cura palumbes nee gemere aeria cessabit turtur ab ulmo.
Page 247 - Tam multae scelerum facies; non ullus aratro Dignus honos; squalent abductis arva colonis, Et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem. Hinc movet Euphrates, illinc Germania bellum ; Vicinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes 510 Arma ferunt ; saevit toto Mars impius orbe : Ut cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, Addunt in spatia, et frustra retinacula tendens Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas.
Page 164 - PR o mihi tum longae maneat pars ultima vitae, spiritus et, quantum sat erit tua dicere facta : non me carminibus vincet nee Thracius Orpheus, 55 nee Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.
Page 400 - Fly hence, our contact fear: Still fly, plunge deeper in the bowering wood! Averse, as Dido did with gesture stern From her false friend's approach in Hades turn, Wave us away, and keep thy solitude!
Page 366 - Heu fuge, nate dea, teque his" ait "eripe flammis. Hostis habet muros, ruit alto a culmine Troia.
Page 407 - Turnus vertitur arma tenens, et toto vertice supra est; ceu septem surgens sedatis amnibus altus 30 per tacitum Ganges, aut pingui flumine Nilus cum refluit campis et iam se condidit alveo.
Page 346 - Oceano, famam qui terminet astris, lulius, a magno demissum nomen lulo. Hunc tu olim caelo spoliis Orientis onustum accipies secura; vocabitur hie quoque votis.
Page 4 - Hinc Augustus agens Italos in proelia Caesar cum patribus populoque, Penatibus et magnis dis...
Page 320 - His ego nee metas rerum nee tempora pono ; imperium sine fine dedi.
Page 325 - En, qui nostra sibi bello connubia poscunt ! Quis deus Italiam, quae vos dementia adegit ? Non hic Atridae, nec fandi fictor Ulixes. Durum a stirpe genus natos ad flumina primum Deferimus saevoque gelu duramus et undis ; Venatu invigilant pueri, silvasque fatigant ; Flectere ludus equos et spicula tendere cornu. At patiens operum parvoque adsueta iuventus Aut rastris terram domat, aut quatit oppida bello.