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... action in the Aeneid may be interesting for its own sake , but its special claim is that it typifies a class of actions and situations in which great questions are raised and great issues are at stake . That is partly why Virgil tells a ...
... action in the Aeneid may be interesting for its own sake , but its special claim is that it typifies a class of actions and situations in which great questions are raised and great issues are at stake . That is partly why Virgil tells a ...
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... actions and self - sacrifice but relates them to a scheme in which what counts most is the end for which they are under- taken . Even in the martial frenzy of Rinaldo we must see the doings of a Christian knight who is able to show such ...
... actions and self - sacrifice but relates them to a scheme in which what counts most is the end for which they are under- taken . Even in the martial frenzy of Rinaldo we must see the doings of a Christian knight who is able to show such ...
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... actions is only another way of saying that men should wish to please Him . Milton agrees with common morality in thinking that the worth of an action depends on its motive and that if there is no free will , no actions have any worth ...
... actions is only another way of saying that men should wish to please Him . Milton agrees with common morality in thinking that the worth of an action depends on its motive and that if there is no free will , no actions have any worth ...
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SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF LITERARY EPIC | 1 |
VIRGIL AND THE IDEAL OF ROME 33 3888 | 33 |
CAMÕES AND THE EPIC OF PORTUGAL | 86 |
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