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... expressions used in them Order and time of their composition . Imitative character of the second and third The fifth founded on the death and apotheosis of Julius Caesar Purely Theocritean character of the seventh The first and ninth ...
... expressions used in them Order and time of their composition . Imitative character of the second and third The fifth founded on the death and apotheosis of Julius Caesar Purely Theocritean character of the seventh The first and ninth ...
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... expression of the same kind of sentiment which suggested to Virgil such lines as Tu regere imperio populos , Romane , memento , and inspired the national Odes of Horace . The majesty of the State , moreover , impressed the imagination ...
... expression of the same kind of sentiment which suggested to Virgil such lines as Tu regere imperio populos , Romane , memento , and inspired the national Odes of Horace . The majesty of the State , moreover , impressed the imagination ...
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... expression not only in the two great poems of Virgil , whose whole nature was in thorough harmony with it , who may be regarded almost as the prophet of a new and purer re- ligion , but in many of the Odes of the sceptical disciple of ...
... expression not only in the two great poems of Virgil , whose whole nature was in thorough harmony with it , who may be regarded almost as the prophet of a new and purer re- ligion , but in many of the Odes of the sceptical disciple of ...
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... expression to the weariness and longing for rest , to the revival of Roman and Italian feeling , to the pride of empire , the charm of ancient memories and associations , the aspiration after a better life and a firmer faith . But ...
... expression to the weariness and longing for rest , to the revival of Roman and Italian feeling , to the pride of empire , the charm of ancient memories and associations , the aspiration after a better life and a firmer faith . But ...
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... expressing national sentiments and ideas , were not like Homer , Pindar , or Sophocles , who , while putting a sufficiently high value on distinctions of birth and fortune , and on the personal qualities accompanying these distinctions ...
... expressing national sentiments and ideas , were not like Homer , Pindar , or Sophocles , who , while putting a sufficiently high value on distinctions of birth and fortune , and on the personal qualities accompanying these distinctions ...
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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.