Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... Roman contemporaries . We may under- estimate the cloying effect of relentless brilliance . The cumulative effect of it all is not something that can be exemplified here . The test is not the quality of isolated passages , but our ...
... Roman contemporaries . We may under- estimate the cloying effect of relentless brilliance . The cumulative effect of it all is not something that can be exemplified here . The test is not the quality of isolated passages , but our ...
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... Roman reader it did not have in its own right . The merely per- sonal , sporadic , unrelated had neither importance nor serious interest . Only when measured by the rule of the norm could the individual and discrete experience be ...
... Roman reader it did not have in its own right . The merely per- sonal , sporadic , unrelated had neither importance nor serious interest . Only when measured by the rule of the norm could the individual and discrete experience be ...
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... Roman quality . Yet his limitations must be acknowledged . His high standards of technical perfection brought a loss ... Roman law a grave became the property of the Di Manes ( F. Schulz , Classical Roman Law , Oxford , 1951 , p . 342 ...
... Roman quality . Yet his limitations must be acknowledged . His high standards of technical perfection brought a loss ... Roman law a grave became the property of the Di Manes ( F. Schulz , Classical Roman Law , Oxford , 1951 , p . 342 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION J P Sullivan Lincoln College page I | 13 |
DOCTE CATULLE K F Quinn University of 31 | 31 |
Tersus atque elEGANS J P Elder | 65 |
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