Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 11
... beginning to its learned close -a body of writing at least a hundred times larger , and possibly ten times more brilliant , than the great fragment of it that has survived to our days . Greek overlaps Latin literature at both ends . The ...
... beginning to its learned close -a body of writing at least a hundred times larger , and possibly ten times more brilliant , than the great fragment of it that has survived to our days . Greek overlaps Latin literature at both ends . The ...
Page 22
... beginning of his Annales , where he claimed to have beheld in sleep a vision of Homer , who revealed that Ennius ' soul had traversed five stages , passing in due succession from a peacock to Euphorbus , 10 to Homer and to Pythagoras ...
... beginning of his Annales , where he claimed to have beheld in sleep a vision of Homer , who revealed that Ennius ' soul had traversed five stages , passing in due succession from a peacock to Euphorbus , 10 to Homer and to Pythagoras ...
Page 163
... beginning of Virgilian criticism . But , as we have seen , the earlier and larger method of allegorizing his text struck into a false track , whereas the subtleties of a Sellar or a Conington , true and useful as they have so often been ...
... beginning of Virgilian criticism . But , as we have seen , the earlier and larger method of allegorizing his text struck into a false track , whereas the subtleties of a Sellar or a Conington , true and useful as they have so often been ...
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