P. Vergili Maronis opera. The works of Virgil, with a comm. by J. Conington (H. Nettleship). |
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... thing is only just begun ; and indeed it seems something like folly to have undertaken so great a work , especially when , as you know , I am applying to it other studies , and those of much greater import- ance . " The inference that ...
... thing is only just begun ; and indeed it seems something like folly to have undertaken so great a work , especially when , as you know , I am applying to it other studies , and those of much greater import- ance . " The inference that ...
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... thing which might be uppermost in his own mind , or in that of the public , the controversies of the Church , or the death of a royal per- sonage . It was not to be expected that a thing so purely artificial could outlive that general ...
... thing which might be uppermost in his own mind , or in that of the public , the controversies of the Church , or the death of a royal per- sonage . It was not to be expected that a thing so purely artificial could outlive that general ...
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... thing to accept broadly the statement that Virgil is a copyist , and quite another to follow him line by line and observe how constantly he is thinking of his guide , looking to him where a simple reliance on nature would have been not ...
... thing to accept broadly the statement that Virgil is a copyist , and quite another to follow him line by line and observe how constantly he is thinking of his guide , looking to him where a simple reliance on nature would have been not ...
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... things by some local epithet , as a peculiarity by which he is distinguished from the earlier Latin poets . Doubtless ... thing , or some accidental connection with time and place which has a real significance in the context . But there ...
... things by some local epithet , as a peculiarity by which he is distinguished from the earlier Latin poets . Doubtless ... thing , or some accidental connection with time and place which has a real significance in the context . But there ...
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... thing produced is not original : but it need not imply its destruc- tion . But with the Eclogues the case is different . It is not merely that Virgil formed his conception of pastoral poetry from Greek models , but that he sought to ...
... thing produced is not original : but it need not imply its destruc- tion . But with the Eclogues the case is different . It is not merely that Virgil formed his conception of pastoral poetry from Greek models , but that he sought to ...
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