Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 66
... Georgics , descrip- tions of the varied labours of farming alternating with lyric rapture as the seasonal results are surveyed . To the farmer himself is given the dignity of a warrior , his struggle with the earth being described in ...
... Georgics , descrip- tions of the varied labours of farming alternating with lyric rapture as the seasonal results are surveyed . To the farmer himself is given the dignity of a warrior , his struggle with the earth being described in ...
Page 70
... Georgics . But whereas the Lucretius selections drop naturally and without harm from their original positions , the same operation of detachment , by tearing those of Virgil from a continuous context , would injure context and selection ...
... Georgics . But whereas the Lucretius selections drop naturally and without harm from their original positions , the same operation of detachment , by tearing those of Virgil from a continuous context , would injure context and selection ...
Page 75
... Georgics from Italian influence , and the practical purport of their work , as shown in their common accuracy in dealing with the details of hus- bandry . In describing the making of a plough , for instance , Virgil must have had in ...
... Georgics from Italian influence , and the practical purport of their work , as shown in their common accuracy in dealing with the details of hus- bandry . In describing the making of a plough , for instance , Virgil must have had in ...
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