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... writer Virgil a great representative of his country and age " " " " " " " " 99 " " 29 " " " " of the idea of Rome of the sentiment of Italy of the political feeling of his age of its ethical and religious sensibility of Roman culture ...
... writer Virgil a great representative of his country and age " " " " " " " " 99 " " 29 " " " " of the idea of Rome of the sentiment of Italy of the political feeling of his age of its ethical and religious sensibility of Roman culture ...
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... episode IV . Sources of the Poem • Materials derived by Virgil from his own life From Greek and Roman writers on agriculture Relation of the Georgics to the ' Works and Days ' " " CHAPTER VI . STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE POEM IN.
... episode IV . Sources of the Poem • Materials derived by Virgil from his own life From Greek and Roman writers on agriculture Relation of the Georgics to the ' Works and Days ' " " CHAPTER VI . STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE POEM IN.
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... writers 207 208 209 Virgil's sense of the life of Nature derived from Lucretius Idea of the struggle with Nature as ordained by Providence Prominence thus given to the duty of labour Lesson inculcated in the Georgics Scientific beliefs ...
... writers 207 208 209 Virgil's sense of the life of Nature derived from Lucretius Idea of the struggle with Nature as ordained by Providence Prominence thus given to the duty of labour Lesson inculcated in the Georgics Scientific beliefs ...
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... writers just mentioned , several others were recognised by their contempo- raries as poets of high excellence , though there is no reason to doubt that the works which have reached our time were the VOL . I. B most distinguished by ...
... writers just mentioned , several others were recognised by their contempo- raries as poets of high excellence , though there is no reason to doubt that the works which have reached our time were the VOL . I. B most distinguished by ...
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... writers your fine Hermogenes never reads , nor that ape , whose whole art is to repeat the songs of Calvus and Catullus . ' Hor . Sat. i . 10 . 17-19 . §1 ] RELATION TO EARLIER POETRY 3 antagonistic to , GENERAL INTRODUCTION [ CH . I.
... writers your fine Hermogenes never reads , nor that ape , whose whole art is to repeat the songs of Calvus and Catullus . ' Hor . Sat. i . 10 . 17-19 . §1 ] RELATION TO EARLIER POETRY 3 antagonistic to , GENERAL INTRODUCTION [ CH . I.
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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.