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... combined 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 ...
... combined 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 ...
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... combined with the Epicurean love of pleasure , the indifference to outward . state , and the urbanity and knowledge of the world , more conspicuous in Horace than in any other ancient poet , are suggestive of habitual contact with the ...
... combined with the Epicurean love of pleasure , the indifference to outward . state , and the urbanity and knowledge of the world , more conspicuous in Horace than in any other ancient poet , are suggestive of habitual contact with the ...
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... combined with the qualities which unite men in friendship with one another . It is of Gallus alone that Virgil writes in such a strain as this : — Gallo cuius amor tantum mihi crescit in horas Quantum vere novo viridis se subicit alnus ...
... combined with the qualities which unite men in friendship with one another . It is of Gallus alone that Virgil writes in such a strain as this : — Gallo cuius amor tantum mihi crescit in horas Quantum vere novo viridis se subicit alnus ...
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... combined with an imaginative longing for the ideal beauty consecrated by old poetic associations , like to that which in modern times has often driven our Northern poets and artists across the Alps , - than the - Rura mihi et rigui ...
... combined with an imaginative longing for the ideal beauty consecrated by old poetic associations , like to that which in modern times has often driven our Northern poets and artists across the Alps , - than the - Rura mihi et rigui ...
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... the knowledge resulting from them , stimu- lated curiosity and the imaginative emotion which accom- panies it ; and the enthusiasm of science combining with the enthusiasm of literary criticism gave birth to a new 44 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... the knowledge resulting from them , stimu- lated curiosity and the imaginative emotion which accom- panies it ; and the enthusiasm of science combining with the enthusiasm of literary criticism gave birth to a new 44 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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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.