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... poetical faculty than any other race except the Hellenic , the blindest national partiality would scarcely claim as general and as durable an interest for any poetical work of that era as that claimed for the Georgics and Aeneid of ...
... poetical faculty than any other race except the Hellenic , the blindest national partiality would scarcely claim as general and as durable an interest for any poetical work of that era as that claimed for the Georgics and Aeneid of ...
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... poetical genius expanded into various shapes and dimensions of beauty and stateliness . II . Influence on Literature of the national enthusiasm in favour of Augustus , and of the direction given to public senti- ment by his policy . The ...
... poetical genius expanded into various shapes and dimensions of beauty and stateliness . II . Influence on Literature of the national enthusiasm in favour of Augustus , and of the direction given to public senti- ment by his policy . The ...
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... poetical imagination , susceptible as it is in the highest degree of emotions produced by the spectacle of ancient or powerful government or of a people nobly asserting its freedom , has little prophetic insight into the working of ...
... poetical imagination , susceptible as it is in the highest degree of emotions produced by the spectacle of ancient or powerful government or of a people nobly asserting its freedom , has little prophetic insight into the working of ...
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... poetical eulogies in the Georgics , the Elegies of Propertius , and the Odes of Horace , but also from the more natural tribute to 1 Essays Literary and Theological , by R. H. Hutton . his worth as a man and his sincerity as a 24 ...
... poetical eulogies in the Georgics , the Elegies of Propertius , and the Odes of Horace , but also from the more natural tribute to 1 Essays Literary and Theological , by R. H. Hutton . his worth as a man and his sincerity as a 24 ...
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... poetical Satires of Pope , which in outward form are imi- tated from them , and still more to the prose Essays of the Spectator . They resemble those Essays in their union of humour and seriousness , in the use they make of character ...
... poetical Satires of Pope , which in outward form are imi- tated from them , and still more to the prose Essays of the Spectator . They resemble those Essays in their union of humour and seriousness , in the use they make of character ...
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Page 257 - Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus et frater, sic fortis Etruria crevit scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces.
Page 398 - I, sequere Italiam ventis, pete regna per undas. Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt, supplicia hausurum scopulis, et nomine Dido saepe vocaturum. Sequar atris ignibus absens, et cum frigida mors anima seduxerit artus, 385 omnibus umbra locis adero. Dabis, improbe, poenas. Audiam, et haec Manis veniet mihi fama sub imos.
Page 378 - Acesten.' talibus Ilioneus; cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae. 560 Tum breviter Dido voltum demissa profatur: 'solvite corde metum, Teucri, secludite curas. res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri et late finis custode tueri. quis genus Aeneadum, quis Troiae nesciat urbem 505 virtutesque virosque aut tanti incendia belli?
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Page 171 - PR o mihi tum longae maneat pars ultima vitae, spiritus et, quantum sat erit tua dicere facta : non me carminibus vincet nee Thracius Orpheus, 55 nee Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.
Page 171 - ... hinc tibi quae semper vicino ab limite saepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti saepe levi somnum suadebit inire susurro hinc alta sub rupe canet frondator ad auras nee tamen interea raucae tua cura palumbes nee gemere aeria cessabit turtur ab ulmo.
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