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... 44 B. C. to the death of Ovid 17 A.D. The whole of this period was one of great literary activity , especially in the department of poetry . Besides VOL . I. B the writers just mentioned , several others were recog- nised.
... 44 B. C. to the death of Ovid 17 A.D. The whole of this period was one of great literary activity , especially in the department of poetry . Besides VOL . I. B the writers just mentioned , several others were recog- nised.
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... whole relation to Maecenas is one of the most characteristic marks of the position in which the new literature stood to the State and to its leading men . 6 Yet , while separated from the literature of the Republic in many of its ideas ...
... whole relation to Maecenas is one of the most characteristic marks of the position in which the new literature stood to the State and to its leading men . 6 Yet , while separated from the literature of the Republic in many of its ideas ...
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... whole the closest parallel , in respect not so much of the substance and form of composition as of the circumstances and conditions affecting the lives and tastes of poets and men of letters , is to be sought in the age of Louis XIV ...
... whole the closest parallel , in respect not so much of the substance and form of composition as of the circumstances and conditions affecting the lives and tastes of poets and men of letters , is to be sought in the age of Louis XIV ...
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... whole the closest parallel , in respect not so much of the substance and form of composition as of the circumstances and conditions affecting the lives and tastes of poets and men of letters , is to be sought in the age of Louis XIV ...
... whole the closest parallel , in respect not so much of the substance and form of composition as of the circumstances and conditions affecting the lives and tastes of poets and men of letters , is to be sought in the age of Louis XIV ...
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... secured internal peace and order for a century . The whole world was , as Tacitus says1 , exhausted , and gladly con- 1 Ann . i . 1 ; Hist . i . 1 . sented to the establishment of the Empire in the interests 8 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... secured internal peace and order for a century . The whole world was , as Tacitus says1 , exhausted , and gladly con- 1 Ann . i . 1 ; Hist . i . 1 . sented to the establishment of the Empire in the interests 8 GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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