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... produce a tameness of spirit , or even an insincerity of tone , yet it has its compensating advantages . It imparts to literature the tone of the world - of the world not only of social eminence , but of practical experience and ...
... produce a tameness of spirit , or even an insincerity of tone , yet it has its compensating advantages . It imparts to literature the tone of the world - of the world not only of social eminence , but of practical experience and ...
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... produced at the same time as the Carmen Saeculare was composed . Its object is to impress on the minds of men the image of Augustus as at once a great earthly conqueror and a being of divine descent and possessed of more than mortal ...
... produced at the same time as the Carmen Saeculare was composed . Its object is to impress on the minds of men the image of Augustus as at once a great earthly conqueror and a being of divine descent and possessed of more than mortal ...
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... 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 political causes . Nor need it be regarded as a sign of weakness or time - serving ...
... 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 political causes . Nor need it be regarded as a sign of weakness or time - serving ...
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... produced the 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 ...
... produced the 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 ...
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... produced its supreme effect in a national Roman literature of similar perfection of work- manship , and , after that , rapidly declined and passed away from the Roman world as a source of literary inspi- ration , leaving however the ...
... produced its supreme effect in a national Roman literature of similar perfection of work- manship , and , after that , rapidly declined and passed away from the Roman world as a source of literary inspi- ration , leaving however the ...
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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.