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... poetry shines , in spite of him , through the dreary pedantry of his eleven books . It is dis- cernible in the most ... poet , and produces trains of events not to be distinguished from the most elaborate plots which are constructed by ...
... poetry shines , in spite of him , through the dreary pedantry of his eleven books . It is dis- cernible in the most ... poet , and produces trains of events not to be distinguished from the most elaborate plots which are constructed by ...
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... poetry is the feeble echo of the Iliad and Odyssey . The best Latin eclogues are imitations of Theocritus . The plan of the most finished didactic poem in the Latin tongue was taken from Hesiod . The Latin tragedies are bad copies of ...
... poetry is the feeble echo of the Iliad and Odyssey . The best Latin eclogues are imitations of Theocritus . The plan of the most finished didactic poem in the Latin tongue was taken from Hesiod . The Latin tragedies are bad copies of ...
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... poetry , a species of composition which scarcely ever fails to spring up and flourish in every society , at a certain point in the progress towards refinement . Tacitus informs us that songs were the only memorials of the past which the ...
... poetry , a species of composition which scarcely ever fails to spring up and flourish in every society , at a certain point in the progress towards refinement . Tacitus informs us that songs were the only memorials of the past which the ...
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... poetry should flou- rish , so is it also agreeable to general experience that , at a subsequent stage in the progress of society , ballad - poetry should be undervalued and neglected . Knowledge ad- vances : manners change : great ...
... poetry should flou- rish , so is it also agreeable to general experience that , at a subsequent stage in the progress of society , ballad - poetry should be undervalued and neglected . Knowledge ad- vances : manners change : great ...
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... poetry . He was , in truth , the father of the second school of Latin poetry , -of the only school of which the works have descended to us . But from Ennius himself we learn that there were poets who stood to him in the same relation in ...
... poetry . He was , in truth , the father of the second school of Latin poetry , -of the only school of which the works have descended to us . But from Ennius himself we learn that there were poets who stood to him in the same relation in ...
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Æbutius Alba Longa ancient Appius Claudius Appius Claudius Crassus Aulus ballad-poetry ballads battle beneath Bentley's assertion Black Auster blood brave days bridge broadsword Caius chronicle Claudian Clusium Consul Cossus Dionysius Ennius Fabian house Fabius false Sextus Fathers fierce fight foes Forum fought Gabii gown Greece Greek hand hath head Herminius Herodotus Horatius horse horsemen Hurrah Ides of Quintilis king Knights Lake Regillus Lars Porsena Lartius Latian name Latin Licinius lictors Livy loud loves Lucius Lucius Sextius Mamilius Manius Curius Dentatus minstrels Nævius never numbers o'er Patricians pilum Plebeian poem poet poetry Pontiff Porcian height Posthumius Prince proud Punic purple Quintilis Roman Rome Rome's Romulus round Second Punic War shield shout slain smile smote songs spake spears stood story strange sword Tarentines Tarentum Tarquin thee thou thrice Tiber Titus to-day Tribunes triumph Tuscan Tusculum Twin Brethren unto Valerius verses Vesta's Volscian καὶ
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Page 47 - But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.
Page 48 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,
Page 40 - Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great ; Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were fairly sold : The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Page 44 - Then, whirling up his broadsword With both hands to the height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow: The blow, though turned, came yet too nigh; It missed his helm, but gashed his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow.
Page 38 - To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 47 - Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more.
Page 50 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 48 - Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day ! ' So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back Plunged headlong in the tide.
Page 30 - East and west and south and north The messengers ride fast, And tower and town and cottage Have heard the trumpet's blast. Shame on the false Etruscan Who lingers in his home, When Porsena of Clusium Is on the march for Rome.
Page 50 - Curse on him!" quoth false Sextus — " Will not the villain drown ? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town ! " "Heaven help him!" quoth Lars Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.