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... conceptions embodied in Greek art IV . Comparison of Virgil with Lucretius in didactic expo- sition and illustration Method ... conception of human energy in conflict with Nature . 234 from literary and mythological associations 235 from ...
... conceptions embodied in Greek art IV . Comparison of Virgil with Lucretius in didactic expo- sition and illustration Method ... conception of human energy in conflict with Nature . 234 from literary and mythological associations 235 from ...
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... Conception and Delineation of Character in the Aeneid Weakness of dramatic imagination in Virgil Conception and delineation of Aeneas The minor characters of the poem Turnus Mezentius Dido 371 372 373 375 376 378 381 385 387-399 387 389 ...
... Conception and Delineation of Character in the Aeneid Weakness of dramatic imagination in Virgil Conception and delineation of Aeneas The minor characters of the poem Turnus Mezentius Dido 371 372 373 375 376 378 381 385 387-399 387 389 ...
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... conceptions to maturity . The maxim ' nonum prematur in annum ' illustrates the spirit in which the great artists of that age worked . The cultivated appreciation of Greek art and poetry - the essential condition of the creative impulse ...
... conceptions to maturity . The maxim ' nonum prematur in annum ' illustrates the spirit in which the great artists of that age worked . The cultivated appreciation of Greek art and poetry - the essential condition of the creative impulse ...
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... conception of the disposition , affections , and moral sympathies which distinguish him from the other great writers of his country . We might perhaps without undue fancifulness express the dominant ethical or social characteristic ...
... conception of the disposition , affections , and moral sympathies which distinguish him from the other great writers of his country . We might perhaps without undue fancifulness express the dominant ethical or social characteristic ...
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... conception of his greatest poem , to the jealousy which Augustus entertained of the memory of Gallus . Virgil , again , has no sympathy with political life , as it realised itself in the ancient republics , or with the energetic types ...
... conception of his greatest poem , to the jealousy which Augustus entertained of the memory of Gallus . Virgil , again , has no sympathy with political life , as it realised itself in the ancient republics , or with the energetic types ...
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