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... the literary appreciation of his poetry , and the advantage to be derived from reading it , that great pains should be given to translation and a high standard aimed at . With the text there has not been much to do PREFATORY NOTE. ...
... the literary appreciation of his poetry , and the advantage to be derived from reading it , that great pains should be given to translation and a high standard aimed at . With the text there has not been much to do PREFATORY NOTE. ...
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... poet , being at once a very faithful and scholarly rendering , skilful and felicitous in expression , and of high poetic merit . The following abbreviations are used in the notes : C. Conington , W. Wagner , F. Forbiger , Rib . Ribbeck ...
... poet , being at once a very faithful and scholarly rendering , skilful and felicitous in expression , and of high poetic merit . The following abbreviations are used in the notes : C. Conington , W. Wagner , F. Forbiger , Rib . Ribbeck ...
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... poet Hesiod , whose date is uncertain , but who is generally assumed to have lived about the eighth century B. C. The poem contains a great variety of precepts for the conduct of life - about right behaviour , justice , industry , the ...
... poet Hesiod , whose date is uncertain , but who is generally assumed to have lived about the eighth century B. C. The poem contains a great variety of precepts for the conduct of life - about right behaviour , justice , industry , the ...
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... poetic treatment . Besides Hesiod we have another primitive but totally different style of didactic poetry in the Greek philosophic poets , of whom the most famous were Xenophanes and Parmenides of Elea , about the sixth century B. C. ...
... poetic treatment . Besides Hesiod we have another primitive but totally different style of didactic poetry in the Greek philosophic poets , of whom the most famous were Xenophanes and Parmenides of Elea , about the sixth century B. C. ...
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... poetry to the feelings or the imagination . On the other hand Lucretius ' great poem amid its arid stretches of philosophic argument has oases of the most sublime and imaginative poetry . It counts for so much among the de- termining ...
... poetry to the feelings or the imagination . On the other hand Lucretius ' great poem amid its arid stretches of philosophic argument has oases of the most sublime and imaginative poetry . It counts for so much among the de- termining ...
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