Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 52
... influence exerted on the author of the Eclogues by the poetry of the Alexandrian school , which is perhaps the only type of imaginative composition aptly described as having sprung from anything so formal as a " school . " It is an ...
... influence exerted on the author of the Eclogues by the poetry of the Alexandrian school , which is perhaps the only type of imaginative composition aptly described as having sprung from anything so formal as a " school . " It is an ...
Page 75
... influence we add such general help as may have come to Virgil from their similar lot as composers of didactic epos , we have done fairly complete justice to the shrewd rather than inspired Hesiod . The influence of Lucretius is far ...
... influence we add such general help as may have come to Virgil from their similar lot as composers of didactic epos , we have done fairly complete justice to the shrewd rather than inspired Hesiod . The influence of Lucretius is far ...
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... influence on the younger poet . He has thrilled him with the romance of unending exploration and discovery . Though Virgil's religious feeling has , so to speak , made him add the conception of design to that of law , he is ever stirred ...
... influence on the younger poet . He has thrilled him with the romance of unending exploration and discovery . Though Virgil's religious feeling has , so to speak , made him add the conception of design to that of law , he is ever stirred ...
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