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... mythological subjects Scientific and learned character of their poetry Their treatment of the passion of love . Their treatment of external Nature Pictorial art of the later Greeks . Superiority of the Augustan to the Alexandrine ...
... mythological subjects Scientific and learned character of their poetry Their treatment of the passion of love . Their treatment of external Nature Pictorial art of the later Greeks . Superiority of the Augustan to the Alexandrine ...
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... Mythological and geographical allusions The sentiment of Nature in the Eclogues . The love of home and of the land The passion of love . Style and rhythm of the Eclogues Their Italian character 162-173 162 163 164 165 167 168 169 172 ...
... Mythological and geographical allusions The sentiment of Nature in the Eclogues . The love of home and of the land The passion of love . Style and rhythm of the Eclogues Their Italian character 162-173 162 163 164 165 167 168 169 172 ...
Page xvi
... mythological associations 235 from astronomy , antiquity , religious usages 238 Inferiority of Virgil to Lucretius in the use of imaginative analogies 239 More uniform excellence in diction and rhythm 240 Virgil more of a conscious ...
... mythological associations 235 from astronomy , antiquity , religious usages 238 Inferiority of Virgil to Lucretius in the use of imaginative analogies 239 More uniform excellence in diction and rhythm 240 Virgil more of a conscious ...
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... mythology . Survivals of primitive religious worship in the Aeneid Belief in local deities Worship of the dead - Virgil's ' Inferno ' His exact acquaintance with religious ceremonial 360-371 360 363 364 365 366 367 369 III . Political ...
... mythology . Survivals of primitive religious worship in the Aeneid Belief in local deities Worship of the dead - Virgil's ' Inferno ' His exact acquaintance with religious ceremonial 360-371 360 363 364 365 366 367 369 III . Political ...
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... mythology , or to attach a definite personality to the imaginary beings of which it was composed . Horace and Virgil appear to stand at opposite extremes of incredulity VOL . I. 1 Cp . infra , chap . vi . с and faith . Horace , in his ...
... mythology , or to attach a definite personality to the imaginary beings of which it was composed . Horace and Virgil appear to stand at opposite extremes of incredulity VOL . I. 1 Cp . infra , chap . vi . с and faith . Horace , in his ...
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