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Page xvii
All his works reveal that love of the land and country scenes , in which the poet must have revelled in his youth ... However , the spelling Virgil has been so long in vogue in English , being the form known to all our great poets and ...
All his works reveal that love of the land and country scenes , in which the poet must have revelled in his youth ... However , the spelling Virgil has been so long in vogue in English , being the form known to all our great poets and ...
Page xxiv
The poet's success was at once recognized Third period of Virgil's by prince and people alike , and in that age of reform the first statesman of the day , Maecenas , sought to secure his genius for the noble work of reconstructing the ...
The poet's success was at once recognized Third period of Virgil's by prince and people alike , and in that age of reform the first statesman of the day , Maecenas , sought to secure his genius for the noble work of reconstructing the ...
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recting and reducing them to the smallest compass , 1 the poet humorously comparing himself to a she - bear " licking her cub into shape . " It has been estimated that the length of time , seven years , given to the Georgics would mean ...
recting and reducing them to the smallest compass , 1 the poet humorously comparing himself to a she - bear " licking her cub into shape . " It has been estimated that the length of time , seven years , given to the Georgics would mean ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Aeneid Books I-VI The students' series of Latin classics |
| Author | Virgil |
| Editors | Henry Rushton Fairclough, Seldon Lester Brown |
| Publisher | Sanborn, 1936 |
| Length | 655 pages |
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