History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age ...E. Littell, 1827 - Latin literature |
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... feeling may be drawn from works written at various epochs of the na- tional history . But , at Rome , the pursuit of literature was neither a native nor predominant taste among the people . The Roman territory was always a foreign soil ...
... feeling may be drawn from works written at various epochs of the na- tional history . But , at Rome , the pursuit of literature was neither a native nor predominant taste among the people . The Roman territory was always a foreign soil ...
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... feelings purely patriotic - they contained no inconsiderable admixture of the marvellous - but even the propensity for what was incredible was exclusively national in its character - and the Roman fablers indulged themselves in the ...
... feelings purely patriotic - they contained no inconsiderable admixture of the marvellous - but even the propensity for what was incredible was exclusively national in its character - and the Roman fablers indulged themselves in the ...
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... feelings and situation . Moliere has copied from Plautus the manner in which Sosia is gradually led to doubt of his own identity : his consequent confusion of ideas has been closely imitated , as also the ensuing scenes of the quarrel ...
... feelings and situation . Moliere has copied from Plautus the manner in which Sosia is gradually led to doubt of his own identity : his consequent confusion of ideas has been closely imitated , as also the ensuing scenes of the quarrel ...
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... feeling ; but love of that grosser and subordinate kind , which prompted Jupiter in his intrigues , has been expressed by none of the ancient poets in more beautiful verse , than that in which Dryden has clothed it , in the scenes ...
... feeling ; but love of that grosser and subordinate kind , which prompted Jupiter in his intrigues , has been expressed by none of the ancient poets in more beautiful verse , than that in which Dryden has clothed it , in the scenes ...
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... feeling and sen- timent , of " All the world's a stage . " The father seems a great deal too foolish and credulous , and the slave must have relied much on his weakness , when he ventured on such desperate expedients , and such palpable ...
... feeling and sen- timent , of " All the world's a stage . " The father seems a great deal too foolish and credulous , and the slave must have relied much on his weakness , when he ventured on such desperate expedients , and such palpable ...
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