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... position and sympathies Difference between the philosophic poet and poetic artist . II . The Lucretian idea of Nature in the Georgics Nature more fully revealed in Lucretius than in earlier poetry Idea of the struggle of man with Nature ...
... position and sympathies Difference between the philosophic poet and poetic artist . II . The Lucretian idea of Nature in the Georgics Nature more fully revealed in Lucretius than in earlier poetry Idea of the struggle of man with Nature ...
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... position of Augustus . 294 295 297 II . Adaptation of the legend of Aeneas to Virgil's purpose 298-307 Adaptation of the legend of Romulus to a poem founded on national sentiment . 298 Deficiency of the legend of Aeneas in national and ...
... position of Augustus . 294 295 297 II . Adaptation of the legend of Aeneas to Virgil's purpose 298-307 Adaptation of the legend of Romulus to a poem founded on national sentiment . 298 Deficiency of the legend of Aeneas in national and ...
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... position , and all their associations and sympathies , they belonged to the Senatorian party . If they could have yielded an outward submission to the ascendency of Julius Caesar and Augustus , they never could have become sincerely ...
... position , and all their associations and sympathies , they belonged to the Senatorian party . If they could have yielded an outward submission to the ascendency of Julius Caesar and Augustus , they never could have become sincerely ...
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... position of Augustus , as an absolute ruler , acted more directly and potently , as a modifying and restraining power , on the thoughts and feelings expressed in his age , than that of the leading men of a republic ; and the unique position ...
... position of Augustus , as an absolute ruler , acted more directly and potently , as a modifying and restraining power , on the thoughts and feelings expressed in his age , than that of the leading men of a republic ; and the unique position ...
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... affecting the lives and tastes of poets and men of letters , is to be sought in the age of Louis XIV . of France . The position and the policy of efforts of the previous centuries . Much of its literary GENERAL INTRODUCTION . 5.
... affecting the lives and tastes of poets and men of letters , is to be sought in the age of Louis XIV . of France . The position and the policy of efforts of the previous centuries . Much of its literary GENERAL INTRODUCTION . 5.
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