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... processes of thought . Virgil may have been as assiduous a student of philosophy as Lucretius , but he 1 Compare Munro's Lucretius , p . 306 ( third edition ) . does not feel the same need of consistency of view 38 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... processes of thought . Virgil may have been as assiduous a student of philosophy as Lucretius , but he 1 Compare Munro's Lucretius , p . 306 ( third edition ) . does not feel the same need of consistency of view 38 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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... Compare also the following characteristic passage quoted from Dickens by Mr. Hare in his Cities of Northern and Central Italy : ' Was the way to Mantua as beautiful when Romeo was banished thither , I wonder ? Did it wind through ...
... Compare also the following characteristic passage quoted from Dickens by Mr. Hare in his Cities of Northern and Central Italy : ' Was the way to Mantua as beautiful when Romeo was banished thither , I wonder ? Did it wind through ...
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... Compare the lines of Coleridge on reading ' The Prelude ' read aloud by Wordsworth : - ' An Orphic song indeed , A song divine of high and passionate thoughts To their own music chanted . ' of the effect produced by the reading or ...
... Compare the lines of Coleridge on reading ' The Prelude ' read aloud by Wordsworth : - ' An Orphic song indeed , A song divine of high and passionate thoughts To their own music chanted . ' of the effect produced by the reading or ...
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... Compare M. Benoist's note on the passage . 3 ' Proximis diebus equorum greges , quos in traiciendo Rubicone flumine consecrarat ac vagos et sine custode dimiserat , comperit pertinacissime pabulo abstinere ubertimque flere . ' Sueton ...
... Compare M. Benoist's note on the passage . 3 ' Proximis diebus equorum greges , quos in traiciendo Rubicone flumine consecrarat ac vagos et sine custode dimiserat , comperit pertinacissime pabulo abstinere ubertimque flere . ' Sueton ...
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... Compare the lines which Theocritus applies to Lycidas : — Καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼν Μοισᾶν καπυρὸν στόμα , κἠμὲ λέγοντι πάντες ἀοιδὸν ἄριστον · ἐγὼ δέ τις οὐ ταχυπειθής , οὐ Δᾶν · οὐ γάρ πω κατ ̓ ἐμὸν νόον οὔτε τὸν ἐσθλόν Σικελίδαν νίκημι τὸν ἐκ ...
... Compare the lines which Theocritus applies to Lycidas : — Καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼν Μοισᾶν καπυρὸν στόμα , κἠμὲ λέγοντι πάντες ἀοιδὸν ἄριστον · ἐγὼ δέ τις οὐ ταχυπειθής , οὐ Δᾶν · οὐ γάρ πω κατ ̓ ἐμὸν νόον οὔτε τὸν ἐσθλόν Σικελίδαν νίκημι τὸν ἐκ ...
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