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... poetical faculty than any other race except the Hellenic , the blindest national partiality would scarcely claim as general and as durable an interest for any poetical work of that era as that claimed for the Georgics and Aeneid of ...
... poetical faculty than any other race except the Hellenic , the blindest national partiality would scarcely claim as general and as durable an interest for any poetical work of that era as that claimed for the Georgics and Aeneid of ...
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... poetical faculty than any other race except the Hellenic , the blindest national partiality would scarcely claim as general and as durable an interest for any poetical work of that era as that claimed for the Georgics and Aeneid of ...
... poetical faculty than any other race except the Hellenic , the blindest national partiality would scarcely claim as general and as durable an interest for any poetical work of that era as that claimed for the Georgics and Aeneid of ...
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... poetical genius expanded into various shapes and dimensions of beauty and stateliness . II . Influence on Literature of the national enthusiasm in favour of Augustus , and of the direction given to public senti- ment by his policy . The ...
... poetical genius expanded into various shapes and dimensions of beauty and stateliness . II . Influence on Literature of the national enthusiasm in favour of Augustus , and of the direction given to public senti- ment by his policy . The ...
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... poetical imagination , susceptible as it is in the highest degree of emotions produced by the spectacle of ancient or powerful government or of a people nobly asserting its freedom , has little prophetic insight into the working of ...
... poetical imagination , susceptible as it is in the highest degree of emotions produced by the spectacle of ancient or powerful government or of a people nobly asserting its freedom , has little prophetic insight into the working of ...
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... poetical eulogies in the Georgics , the Elegies of Propertius , and the Odes of Horace , but also from the more natural tribute to 1 Essays Literary and Theological , by R. H. Hutton . his worth as a man and his sincerity as a 24 ...
... poetical eulogies in the Georgics , the Elegies of Propertius , and the Odes of Horace , but also from the more natural tribute to 1 Essays Literary and Theological , by R. H. Hutton . his worth as a man and his sincerity as a 24 ...
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