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... Italy · 161 III . Truth of feeling in the Eclogues Inferiority of the Eclogues in truth and vividness of repre ... Italian character 162-173 162 163 164 165 167 168 169 172 CHAPTER V. MOTIVES , FORM , SUBSTANCE , AND SOURCES xiv CONTENTS .
... Italy · 161 III . Truth of feeling in the Eclogues Inferiority of the Eclogues in truth and vividness of repre ... Italian character 162-173 162 163 164 165 167 168 169 172 CHAPTER V. MOTIVES , FORM , SUBSTANCE , AND SOURCES xiv CONTENTS .
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... Italy 243-257 243 244 247 251 253 254 CHAPTER VII . THE GEORGICS A POEM REPRESENTATIVE OF ITALY 258-276 The Georgics an original work of Latin genius 258 Technical value of the poem as an exposition of Italian hus- bandry . 260 Relation ...
... Italy 243-257 243 244 247 251 253 254 CHAPTER VII . THE GEORGICS A POEM REPRESENTATIVE OF ITALY 258-276 The Georgics an original work of Latin genius 258 Technical value of the poem as an exposition of Italian hus- bandry . 260 Relation ...
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... Italian sentiment Italian feeling and representation of Nature Italian character of the religious sentiment of the poem " 9 99 of its ethical and political sentiment 99 of its artistic execution PAGE 263 264 265 269 270 273 CHAPTER VIII ...
... Italian sentiment Italian feeling and representation of Nature Italian character of the religious sentiment of the poem " 9 99 of its ethical and political sentiment 99 of its artistic execution PAGE 263 264 265 269 270 273 CHAPTER VIII ...
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... Italy 353 Virgil's narrative power Inferiority to Homer in exhibiting a vivid image of life 354 355 " 9 99 " 9 from ... Italian mythology . 29 Survivals of primitive religious worship in the Aeneid • 359 360-371 360 363 364 Belief in ...
... Italy 353 Virgil's narrative power Inferiority to Homer in exhibiting a vivid image of life 354 355 " 9 99 " 9 from ... Italian mythology . 29 Survivals of primitive religious worship in the Aeneid • 359 360-371 360 363 364 Belief in ...
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... Italy was , in point of imaginative suscep- tibility , very different from that of modern France ; and , though his countrymen recognise in Racine a moral affinity with Virgil , yet the works these poets have left to the world are as ...
... Italy was , in point of imaginative suscep- tibility , very different from that of modern France ; and , though his countrymen recognise in Racine a moral affinity with Virgil , yet the works these poets have left to the world are as ...
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Page 245 - 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 159 - ... 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.
Page 239 - Tam multae scelerum facies; non ullus aratro Dignus honos; squalent abductis arva colonis, Et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem. Hinc movet Euphrates, illinc Germania bellum ; Vicinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes 510 Arma ferunt ; saevit toto Mars impius orbe : Ut cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, Addunt in spatia, et frustra retinacula tendens Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas.
Page 159 - 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.