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... Virgil . The natural play of characters , acting and reacting upon one another , enlivens the divinely - appointed action of the Aeneid , only in such exceptional passages as the episode of Dido ; nor does it . add the charm of human ...
... Virgil . The natural play of characters , acting and reacting upon one another , enlivens the divinely - appointed action of the Aeneid , only in such exceptional passages as the episode of Dido ; nor does it . add the charm of human ...
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... Virgil ampler volume and profounder meaning than in their Greek models , Empedocles and Hesiod . It was by the skill of the two great Latin poets that poetic art was made to embrace within its province the treatment of a great ...
... Virgil ampler volume and profounder meaning than in their Greek models , Empedocles and Hesiod . It was by the skill of the two great Latin poets that poetic art was made to embrace within its province the treatment of a great ...
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... Virgil , whose great success is , in no slight measure , due to the skill and taste with which he used the materials of earlier Greek and native writers , has reproduced the heroic tones of Homer in his epic , and the mellow cadences of ...
... Virgil , whose great success is , in no slight measure , due to the skill and taste with which he used the materials of earlier Greek and native writers , has reproduced the heroic tones of Homer in his epic , and the mellow cadences of ...
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... Virgil , and the subtle moderation of Horace . Roman poetry owes also a considerable part of its substance to Greek thought , art , and traditions . This is the chief explanation of that conventional character which detracts from the ...
... Virgil , and the subtle moderation of Horace . Roman poetry owes also a considerable part of its substance to Greek thought , art , and traditions . This is the chief explanation of that conventional character which detracts from the ...
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... Virgil : - Cetera , quae vacuas tenuissent carmine mentes , Omnia jam vulgata . The ideal aspect of the golden morning of the world has been seized with a truer feeling in the Epithalamium of Peleus and Thetis than in the episode of the ...
... Virgil : - Cetera , quae vacuas tenuissent carmine mentes , Omnia jam vulgata . The ideal aspect of the golden morning of the world has been seized with a truer feeling in the Epithalamium of Peleus and Thetis than in the episode of the ...
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Page 296 - ... floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant, omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta, aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.
Page 295 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
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Page 243 - Numae, tremit has, hie omnia ponit ; Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia ahena Vivere, et esse homines; et sic isti omnia ficta Vera putant, credunt signis cor inesse in ahenis; Pergula pictorum, veri nihil, omnia ficta.1 His attitude to philosophy, like his attitude to superstitious terrors, was not unlike that of Horace. We find mention in his fragments of the
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