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... ancient Grammarians , etc. Remains of ancient art . Knowledge of Virgil derived from his works Testimony of Horace • Biographies of Probus and Donatus Their value as evidence of facts and character II . Life of Virgil His name and the ...
... ancient Grammarians , etc. Remains of ancient art . Knowledge of Virgil derived from his works Testimony of Horace • Biographies of Probus and Donatus Their value as evidence of facts and character II . Life of Virgil His name and the ...
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... ancient models . In each time circumstances and mutual sympathies brought men of letters into close and familiar contact both with one another and with men of affairs and of social eminence . And , while the relation of patronage to ...
... ancient models . In each time circumstances and mutual sympathies brought men of letters into close and familiar contact both with one another and with men of affairs and of social eminence . And , while the relation of patronage to ...
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... ancient 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 ...
... ancient 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 ...
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... ancient and un- broken tradition , of their State was a more active sentiment than the love of political liberty . The care for the ' Res- publica Romana ' as a free commonwealth was in the last century of its existence confined to the ...
... ancient and un- broken tradition , of their State was a more active sentiment than the love of political liberty . The care for the ' Res- publica Romana ' as a free commonwealth was in the last century of its existence confined to the ...
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... ancient usages and ceremonies , and by the creation of a new interest in the early traditions of the city , and in the manners and men of the olden time1 . ' In his brief summary of the glories of the Augustan Age , Horace specifies ...
... ancient usages and ceremonies , and by the creation of a new interest in the early traditions of the city , and in the manners and men of the olden time1 . ' In his brief summary of the glories of the Augustan Age , Horace specifies ...
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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.