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... language which no poet of the preceding generation could have applied to a living con- temporary : - O Meliboee deus nobis haec otia fecit . In the Georgics , planned , and , for the most part , composed before the establishment of the ...
... language which no poet of the preceding generation could have applied to a living con- temporary : - O Meliboee deus nobis haec otia fecit . In the Georgics , planned , and , for the most part , composed before the establishment of the ...
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... language of Horace indicates that his life had been more than once in jeopardy- at the rout of Philippi , and in his subsequent wanderings by land and sea1 - till he found himself a needy adventurer , ' humilem decisis pennis , ' again ...
... language of Horace indicates that his life had been more than once in jeopardy- at the rout of Philippi , and in his subsequent wanderings by land and sea1 - till he found himself a needy adventurer , ' humilem decisis pennis , ' again ...
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... language of admiration goes beyond these into a region in which modern sympathies can with difficulty follow it . Modern criticism may partially explain , but it cannot enable us to enter with sympathy into that peculiar phase of the ...
... language of admiration goes beyond these into a region in which modern sympathies can with difficulty follow it . Modern criticism may partially explain , but it cannot enable us to enter with sympathy into that peculiar phase of the ...
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... language any germ of sincere conviction . And yet to condemn them of a base servility and hypocrisy would be to judge them altogether from a modern point of view . At such a time as the Augustan Age the minds of men were very variously ...
... language any germ of sincere conviction . And yet to condemn them of a base servility and hypocrisy would be to judge them altogether from a modern point of view . At such a time as the Augustan Age the minds of men were very variously ...
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... of the Emperor . The language of Virgil in Eclogue IV . also throws light on the ideas possible as to the union of the divine with human nature . in the Vatican , has been critically examined by an 18 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... of the Emperor . The language of Virgil in Eclogue IV . also throws light on the ideas possible as to the union of the divine with human nature . in the Vatican , has been critically examined by an 18 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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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.