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... admiration excited by the union , in your teaching , of perfect scholarship with a true and generous appreciation of all that is excellent in literature . The intimate friendship of many subsequent years has afforded me , along with ...
... admiration excited by the union , in your teaching , of perfect scholarship with a true and generous appreciation of all that is excellent in literature . The intimate friendship of many subsequent years has afforded me , along with ...
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... admiration of great men from capacity for works of massive execution National characteristics of the poem of Naevius Historical substance of the early Roman epic Representative character of the Annals of Ennius Later annalistic and ...
... admiration of great men from capacity for works of massive execution National characteristics of the poem of Naevius Historical substance of the early Roman epic Representative character of the Annals of Ennius Later annalistic and ...
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... admiration for the real power of intellect and character which made him the most suc- cessful ruler that the world has ever seen , the confidence in the unbroken good fortune which marked all his earlier career , may account , without ...
... admiration for the real power of intellect and character which made him the most suc- cessful ruler that the world has ever seen , the confidence in the unbroken good fortune which marked all his earlier career , may account , without ...
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... admiration , but of acknowledgment for the encouragement and guidance which he owed to him ; and that such an influence may have been really exercised by the inferior over the superior mind is shown by the testi- mony given by Goethe of ...
... admiration , but of acknowledgment for the encouragement and guidance which he owed to him ; and that such an influence may have been really exercised by the inferior over the superior mind is shown by the testi- mony given by Goethe of ...
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... admirable and effective vehicles for the varied purposes of passionate invective or persuasive oratory , of familiar correspondence , and of popularising the results of ethical , political , and religious reflection . In Caesar and ...
... admirable and effective vehicles for the varied purposes of passionate invective or persuasive oratory , of familiar correspondence , and of popularising the results of ethical , political , and religious reflection . In Caesar and ...
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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.