Bucolica, Georgica, et AeneisDavid H. Williams, 1842 - 600 pages |
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... poet , therefore , are remembered and quoted , and a recurrence to the study of them often opens a new source of pleasure for the schol- ar's riper years ; while the poems of Virgil , more pleasing as respects the choice of a subject ...
... poet , therefore , are remembered and quoted , and a recurrence to the study of them often opens a new source of pleasure for the schol- ar's riper years ; while the poems of Virgil , more pleasing as respects the choice of a subject ...
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... poet , and find pleasure in the task , instead of poring over the work as a crabbed and difficult exercise in Latin . He will not be disheartened by a continued struggle with diffi- culties , nor will he find his interest in the poem ...
... poet , and find pleasure in the task , instead of poring over the work as a crabbed and difficult exercise in Latin . He will not be disheartened by a continued struggle with diffi- culties , nor will he find his interest in the poem ...
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... poet was not diversified by many remarkable events either of good or evil for- tune , and a memoir of him must be pieced together from casual notices in his own works and those of his contemporaries , and from sketches of very doubtful ...
... poet was not diversified by many remarkable events either of good or evil for- tune , and a memoir of him must be pieced together from casual notices in his own works and those of his contemporaries , and from sketches of very doubtful ...
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... poet , and Pollio soon became his friend and protector . But a change took place in the government of the province , and the people of Cremona , who had espoused the cause of Brutus , were compelled to give up their territory . The ...
... poet , and Pollio soon became his friend and protector . But a change took place in the government of the province , and the people of Cremona , who had espoused the cause of Brutus , were compelled to give up their territory . The ...
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... poet , and its execution has formed a lasting monument to the reputation of both . The Georgics were begun as soon as the Eclogues were finished , when the poet was thirty three years of age , and their composition oc- cupied the seven ...
... poet , and its execution has formed a lasting monument to the reputation of both . The Georgics were begun as soon as the Eclogues were finished , when the poet was thirty three years of age , and their composition oc- cupied the seven ...
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