Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 28
... apparently did not realize how repugnant to the very essence of the epic was this direct presentation of the contemporary and the factual . Still less could any such realisation have dawned upon lesser men like Cornelius Severus , whose ...
... apparently did not realize how repugnant to the very essence of the epic was this direct presentation of the contemporary and the factual . Still less could any such realisation have dawned upon lesser men like Cornelius Severus , whose ...
Page 59
... apparently unmentioned in the fairly copious re- mains of ancient criticism , may not have been as evident to his age as it is to ours . In any case , the Pollio is the finest of the many pictures antiquity supplies of the Golden Age ...
... apparently unmentioned in the fairly copious re- mains of ancient criticism , may not have been as evident to his age as it is to ours . In any case , the Pollio is the finest of the many pictures antiquity supplies of the Golden Age ...
Page 124
... apparently so remote from and even prejudicial to interests of state , is repre- sented as germinating the greatest chapter in Roman history . It accounts for and predicts the Punic wars that laid the foundations of the Empire . It is ...
... apparently so remote from and even prejudicial to interests of state , is repre- sented as germinating the greatest chapter in Roman history . It accounts for and predicts the Punic wars that laid the foundations of the Empire . It is ...
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