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... ideal longing for simpler and purer conditions . But , instead of tracing these resemblances further , it is more important to observe that , though the outward influ- ences acting upon the poets of the two eras were in many respects ...
... ideal longing for simpler and purer conditions . But , instead of tracing these resemblances further , it is more important to observe that , though the outward influ- ences acting upon the poets of the two eras were in many respects ...
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... ideal of a life of peace - ' procul discordibus armis , ' the vision of a place of rest after toil and danger— ' sedes ubi fata quietas ostendunt ; ' just as the recoil from the political anarchy of his own age and from the cruel memo ...
... ideal of a life of peace - ' procul discordibus armis , ' the vision of a place of rest after toil and danger— ' sedes ubi fata quietas ostendunt ; ' just as the recoil from the political anarchy of his own age and from the cruel memo ...
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... ideal aspiration finds its 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 ...
... ideal aspiration finds its 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 ...
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... ideal of heroism , 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 ...
... ideal of heroism , 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 ...
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... ideal which it sets before itself . Horace , except in his highest and most thoughtful moods , is the true representa- tive of such a society ; but its indirect influence may be noted also in the moderation , the invariable propriety ...
... ideal which it sets before itself . Horace , except in his highest and most thoughtful moods , is the true representa- tive of such a society ; but its indirect influence may be noted also in the moderation , the invariable propriety ...
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