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... action 99 99 The Aeneid a new type of epic poetry CHAPTER X. THE AENEID AS THE EPIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . I. Modes of National Sentiment expressed in the Aeneid . 322-331 Pride of Empire 322 Sense of national continuity 325 Patriotic ...
... action 99 99 The Aeneid a new type of epic poetry CHAPTER X. THE AENEID AS THE EPIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . I. Modes of National Sentiment expressed in the Aeneid . 322-331 Pride of Empire 322 Sense of national continuity 325 Patriotic ...
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... action as affected by the Age in which the poem was written , and by the author's genius Dignity of the circumstances treated in the poem PAGE 350-360 350 Distinction of the actors • 351 Interest to Roman readers of the revival of ...
... action as affected by the Age in which the poem was written , and by the author's genius Dignity of the circumstances treated in the poem PAGE 350-360 350 Distinction of the actors • 351 Interest to Roman readers of the revival of ...
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... action on the imagination , but in a more direct in-、 fluence on opinion and conduct . Horace says of it , in the same passage as that referred to above , - Ordinem Rectum evaganti fraena licentiae Iniecit , amovitque culpas . The ...
... action on the imagination , but in a more direct in-、 fluence on opinion and conduct . Horace says of it , in the same passage as that referred to above , - Ordinem Rectum evaganti fraena licentiae Iniecit , amovitque culpas . The ...
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... 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 among ...
... 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 among ...
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... action is projected into his own age , claims , for the restorer of order then , a vaster range of beneficent influence than that over which the civilising labours and conquests of Bacchus and Hercules had extended 2. In another passage ...
... action is projected into his own age , claims , for the restorer of order then , a vaster range of beneficent influence than that over which the civilising labours and conquests of Bacchus and Hercules had extended 2. In another passage ...
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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.