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... produce a tameness of spirit , or even an insincerity of tone , yet it has its compensating advantages . It imparts to literature the tone of the world - of the world not only of social eminence , but of practical experience and con ...
... produce a tameness of spirit , or even an insincerity of tone , yet it has its compensating advantages . It imparts to literature the tone of the world - of the world not only of social eminence , but of practical experience and con ...
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... produced by the spectacle of ancient or powerful government or of a people nobly asserting its freedom , has little prophetic insight into the working of political causes . Nor need it be regarded as a sign of weakness or time - serving ...
... produced by the spectacle of ancient or powerful government or of a people nobly asserting its freedom , has little prophetic insight into the working of political causes . Nor need it be regarded as a sign of weakness or time - serving ...
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... produced the impression of an effeminate devotion to pleasure . His love of pleasure and his shrinking from death seem to be confirmed by the testi- mony of Horace : — Cur me querelis , etc. The sketch of him by Velleius Paterculus ...
... produced the impression of an effeminate devotion to pleasure . His love of pleasure and his shrinking from death seem to be confirmed by the testi- mony of Horace : — Cur me querelis , etc. The sketch of him by Velleius Paterculus ...
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... produced its supreme effect in a national Roman literature of similar perfection of workmanship , and , after that , rapidly declined and passed away from the Roman world as a source of literary inspiration , leaving however the ...
... produced its supreme effect in a national Roman literature of similar perfection of workmanship , and , after that , rapidly declined and passed away from the Roman world as a source of literary inspiration , leaving however the ...
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... produced but a faint echo in his Ducite ab urbe domum , mea carmina , ducite Daphnim1 . The love of Nature , though not then for the first time awakened , for there are clear indications of the powerful influence of this sentiment ...
... produced but a faint echo in his Ducite ab urbe domum , mea carmina , ducite Daphnim1 . The love of Nature , though not then for the first time awakened , for there are clear indications of the powerful influence of this sentiment ...
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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.