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... things , nor could they have employed their art to promote the ideas of the Empire . On the other hand , L. Varius , the oldest among the poets of the new era , seems first to have become famous by a poem on the death of Julius Caesar ...
... things , nor could they have employed their art to promote the ideas of the Empire . On the other hand , L. Varius , the oldest among the poets of the new era , seems first to have become famous by a poem on the death of Julius Caesar ...
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... things affecting either the State or the individual , the invisible world of faith appears very near the actual world of experience , seems sincerely to believe in the delegation of supernatural power and autho- rity on the Emperor ...
... things affecting either the State or the individual , the invisible world of faith appears very near the actual world of experience , seems sincerely to believe in the delegation of supernatural power and autho- rity on the Emperor ...
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William Young Sellar. government . If anything could have made the new order of things acceptable to the best representatives of the old Republican traditions , the purity and elevation imparted to the idea of the Empire in the verse of ...
William Young Sellar. government . If anything could have made the new order of things acceptable to the best representatives of the old Republican traditions , the purity and elevation imparted to the idea of the Empire in the verse of ...
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... things , and , while acquiescing in it as complacently , sharing neither in the energy nor in the enthusiasm of the early years ( from about 27 B.C. to about 10 B.C. ) during which the Empire left its greatest and happiest impression ...
... things , and , while acquiescing in it as complacently , sharing neither in the energy nor in the enthusiasm of the early years ( from about 27 B.C. to about 10 B.C. ) during which the Empire left its greatest and happiest impression ...
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... things and from the inner world of consciousness , but still capable of more delicate and varied combinations to fit it to become the perfectly harmonious organ of sustained poetical emotion . This further development was given to it by ...
... things and from the inner world of consciousness , but still capable of more delicate and varied combinations to fit it to become the perfectly harmonious organ of sustained poetical emotion . This further development was given to it by ...
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