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... inspiration of genius , as of systematic effort directed in accordance with the principles of art and the careful study of ancient models . In each time circumstances and mutual sympathies brought men of letters into close and familiar ...
... inspiration of genius , as of systematic effort directed in accordance with the principles of art and the careful study of ancient models . In each time circumstances and mutual sympathies brought men of letters into close and familiar ...
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... inspired the national Odes of Horace . The majesty of the State , moreover , impressed the imagination more immediately and more deeply when it was visibly and permanently embodied in a single person than when the administration of ...
... inspired the national Odes of Horace . The majesty of the State , moreover , impressed the imagination more immediately and more deeply when it was visibly and permanently embodied in a single person than when the administration of ...
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... inspiration and Roman workmanship , the Pantheon , raised by Agrippa in honour of the deities connected with the Julian race . • The prominence given to this representation of Augustus in the poetry and in the art of his age is probably ...
... inspiration and Roman workmanship , the Pantheon , raised by Agrippa in honour of the deities connected with the Julian race . • The prominence given to this representation of Augustus in the poetry and in the art of his age is probably ...
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... inspired in Virgil that affection , partly of the heart , partly of the imagination , which fascinates and attaches the finer nature of the poet to the stronger or bolder nature of one in whom it recognises some ideal of heroism ...
... inspired in Virgil that affection , partly of the heart , partly of the imagination , which fascinates and attaches the finer nature of the poet to the stronger or bolder nature of one in whom it recognises some ideal of heroism ...
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... inspiration among the Sabine Hills or in the cool mountain air of Praeneste , amid the gardens and streams of Tibur or by the bright shores of Baiae1 . To the liberality of their patrons these poets owed not only the leisure and freedom ...
... inspiration among the Sabine Hills or in the cool mountain air of Praeneste , amid the gardens and streams of Tibur or by the bright shores of Baiae1 . To the liberality of their patrons these poets owed not only the leisure and freedom ...
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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.