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... combined action of three distinct modes of feeling , —a survival of the old Greek hero - worship , which led even in the Republican times to the offering of divine honours to Roman Proconsuls ; the excess of the monar- chical sentiment ...
... combined action of three distinct modes of feeling , —a survival of the old Greek hero - worship , which led even in the Republican times to the offering of divine honours to Roman Proconsuls ; the excess of the monar- chical sentiment ...
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... combined with the Epicurean love of pleasure , the indifference to outward state , and the urbanity and knowledge of the world , more conspicuous in Horace than in any other ancient poet , are suggestive of habitual contact with the ...
... combined with the Epicurean love of pleasure , the indifference to outward state , and the urbanity and knowledge of the world , more conspicuous in Horace than in any other ancient poet , are suggestive of habitual contact with the ...
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... combined with the qualities which unite men in friendship with one another . It is of Gallus alone that Virgil writes in such a strain as this : - Gallo cuius amor tantum mihi crescit in horas Quantum vere novo viridis se subicit alnus ...
... combined with the qualities which unite men in friendship with one another . It is of Gallus alone that Virgil writes in such a strain as this : - Gallo cuius amor tantum mihi crescit in horas Quantum vere novo viridis se subicit alnus ...
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... combined with an imaginative longing for the ideal beauty consecrated by old poetic associations , like to that which in modern times has often driven our Northern poets and artists across the Alps , - than the -- Rura mihi et rigui ...
... combined with an imaginative longing for the ideal beauty consecrated by old poetic associations , like to that which in modern times has often driven our Northern poets and artists across the Alps , - than the -- Rura mihi et rigui ...
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... knowledge resulting from them , stimu- lated curiosity and the imaginative emotion which accom- #panies it ; and the enthusiasm of science combining with the enthusiasm of literary criticism gave birth to a new 44 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... knowledge resulting from them , stimu- lated curiosity and the imaginative emotion which accom- #panies it ; and the enthusiasm of science combining with the enthusiasm of literary criticism gave birth to a new 44 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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