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... criticisms in the present century · Causes of these criticisms Advance in Greek scholarship Modern interest in remote antiquity Literary reaction at the end of the 18th century 588 59 60 61-68 61 61 64 65 67 68-77 69 70 71 / 74V 74 74 ...
... criticisms in the present century · Causes of these criticisms Advance in Greek scholarship Modern interest in remote antiquity Literary reaction at the end of the 18th century 588 59 60 61-68 61 61 64 65 67 68-77 69 70 71 / 74V 74 74 ...
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... criticism of nineteen centuries , as well as its deficiency in the highest creative power , when compared with such eras as the Homeric Age , the Age of Pericles , and the Elizabethan Age in England , mark the limits of the good ...
... criticism of nineteen centuries , as well as its deficiency in the highest creative power , when compared with such eras as the Homeric Age , the Age of Pericles , and the Elizabethan Age in England , mark the limits of the good ...
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... criticism may partially explain , but it cannot enable us to enter with sympathy into that peculiar phase of the latter days of Paganism which first appears in the literature and the historical monuments of the Augustan Age as the ...
... criticism may partially explain , but it cannot enable us to enter with sympathy into that peculiar phase of the latter days of Paganism which first appears in the literature and the historical monuments of the Augustan Age as the ...
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... critics whose appreciation he valued ; who in later life obtained great distinction as an orator ; to whose talent as a writer of tragedy both Virgil and Horace bear witness ; who undertook the composition of a work the loss of which is ...
... critics whose appreciation he valued ; who in later life obtained great distinction as an orator ; to whose talent as a writer of tragedy both Virgil and Horace bear witness ; who undertook the composition of a work the loss of which is ...
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... criticism both on life and literature , in the colloquial ease combined with the studied propriety of their style . But while Horace , in addition to his powers as a moralist and painter of cha- racter , ranks high among those poets who ...
... criticism both on life and literature , in the colloquial ease combined with the studied propriety of their style . But while Horace , in addition to his powers as a moralist and painter of cha- racter , ranks high among those poets who ...
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