Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 10
... mind - and , most surprising of all , no historical narrative . Had there been no Greek , would there have ever been a Latin literature ? If half a millennium of national greatness failed to beget even a Tyrtaeus or a Kipling , is it ...
... mind - and , most surprising of all , no historical narrative . Had there been no Greek , would there have ever been a Latin literature ? If half a millennium of national greatness failed to beget even a Tyrtaeus or a Kipling , is it ...
Page 18
... mind had produced . But their own tongue , adapted to the plain way of thinking characteristic of a race that hitherto had done little but fighting and farm- ing , had attained the level neither of philosophic nor of elaborately poetic ...
... mind had produced . But their own tongue , adapted to the plain way of thinking characteristic of a race that hitherto had done little but fighting and farm- ing , had attained the level neither of philosophic nor of elaborately poetic ...
Page 166
... mind , and a charm , which the current literature of his own day , with all its obvious advantages , is utterly unable to rival . Perhaps this is the reason of the medieval opinion about Virgil , as if a prophet or a magician ; his ...
... mind , and a charm , which the current literature of his own day , with all its obvious advantages , is utterly unable to rival . Perhaps this is the reason of the medieval opinion about Virgil , as if a prophet or a magician ; his ...
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