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... Impression of his character derived from Horace 99 " " 99 His indifference to political freedom His devotion to his art CHAPTER IV . THE ECLOGUES . I. The Eclogues examined in the order of their composition Character of the Eclogues ...
... Impression of his character derived from Horace 99 " " 99 His indifference to political freedom His devotion to his art CHAPTER IV . THE ECLOGUES . I. The Eclogues examined in the order of their composition Character of the Eclogues ...
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... impressions on the minds of his contemporaries , according as they knew him intimately or merely from the outside . It is a proof of his capacity and his honesty that he was the one man thoroughly trusted by Augustus in all affairs of ...
... impressions on the minds of his contemporaries , according as they knew him intimately or merely from the outside . It is a proof of his capacity and his honesty that he was the one man thoroughly trusted by Augustus in all affairs of ...
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... impression of an effeminate devotion to pleasure . His love of pleasure and his effeminate shrinking from death seem to be con- firmed by the testimony of Horace : - Cur me querelis , etc. The sketch of him by Velleius Paterculus ...
... impression of an effeminate devotion to pleasure . His love of pleasure and his effeminate shrinking from death seem to be con- firmed by the testimony of Horace : - Cur me querelis , etc. The sketch of him by Velleius Paterculus ...
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... impression . This relation of men of letters to the leaders of society under the Empire could not but exercise a strong influence both for good and evil on the literature of the age . Such a society , -able , versed in affairs ...
... impression . This relation of men of letters to the leaders of society under the Empire could not but exercise a strong influence both for good and evil on the literature of the age . Such a society , -able , versed in affairs ...
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... impressions from out- ward things and from the inner world of consciousness , but still capable of more delicate and varied combinations to fit it to become the perfectly harmonious organ of sustained poetical emotion . This further ...
... impressions from out- ward things and from the inner world of consciousness , but still capable of more delicate and varied combinations to fit it to become the perfectly harmonious organ of sustained poetical emotion . This further ...
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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.