Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... final question . The effort of the historical imagination is only the preliminary to honest and un- flinching judgement , and though this effort of the understanding is a larger task than with any later literature of comparable size ...
... final question . The effort of the historical imagination is only the preliminary to honest and un- flinching judgement , and though this effort of the understanding is a larger task than with any later literature of comparable size ...
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... final insult 17-21 . The second stanza is welded to the first by a neat ambiguity involving the word urbanus . At the end of stanza I , • hunc habet morbum , neque elegantem , ut arbitror , neque urbanum , It's a complaint he suffers ...
... final insult 17-21 . The second stanza is welded to the first by a neat ambiguity involving the word urbanus . At the end of stanza I , • hunc habet morbum , neque elegantem , ut arbitror , neque urbanum , It's a complaint he suffers ...
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... final Theseus scene ( line 248 ) . It covers a complicated nexus of meanings which may be summed up by the translation ' without thought for ' . At epic levels of motivation , this is equated with forgetting : Theseus forgot about ...
... final Theseus scene ( line 248 ) . It covers a complicated nexus of meanings which may be summed up by the translation ' without thought for ' . At epic levels of motivation , this is equated with forgetting : Theseus forgot about ...
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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