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... Italy • Influence of Nature in the poetry of Horace His artistic life . VI . Horace's style Progress of his art Forms of verse • The Sapphic and Alcaic measures Varieties of the Asclepiad . ' Curiosa felicitas ' : characteristics of his ...
... Italy • Influence of Nature in the poetry of Horace His artistic life . VI . Horace's style Progress of his art Forms of verse • The Sapphic and Alcaic measures Varieties of the Asclepiad . ' Curiosa felicitas ' : characteristics of his ...
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... Italian ' mollitia ' Roman elegiac poetry the best product of the great age of Roman literature • Value of the elegiac poets : their rendering of personal feeling and experience . Their mastery of verse 218 • 219 220 221 221 CHAPTER II ...
... Italian ' mollitia ' Roman elegiac poetry the best product of the great age of Roman literature • Value of the elegiac poets : their rendering of personal feeling and experience . Their mastery of verse 218 • 219 220 221 221 CHAPTER II ...
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... Italy : love of the country : resemblances to Virgil • 241 • Love of peace • · Friendship for Messalla Tibullus and the greatness of Rome : an exceptional passage ( ii . 5 ) Relation of Tibullus to other poets : affinities with Virgil ...
... Italy : love of the country : resemblances to Virgil • 241 • Love of peace • · Friendship for Messalla Tibullus and the greatness of Rome : an exceptional passage ( ii . 5 ) Relation of Tibullus to other poets : affinities with Virgil ...
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... Italian he chiefly read works bearing on his own studies : the books of M. Gaston Boissier were often in his hands . Briefly , in literature he was a lover of what is sound , and has stood the test of time : he did not care to make new ...
... Italian he chiefly read works bearing on his own studies : the books of M. Gaston Boissier were often in his hands . Briefly , in literature he was a lover of what is sound , and has stood the test of time : he did not care to make new ...
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... his almost yearly visits to Italy and to Switzerland , he met Mr. Alfred Benn , author of a work on Greek Philosophy , and enjoyed his vivacious learning and originality . Mr. Sellar contradicted the saying C 2 WILLIAM YOUNG SELLAR XXXV.
... his almost yearly visits to Italy and to Switzerland , he met Mr. Alfred Benn , author of a work on Greek Philosophy , and enjoyed his vivacious learning and originality . Mr. Sellar contradicted the saying C 2 WILLIAM YOUNG SELLAR XXXV.
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Page 114 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Page xxvii - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Page 302 - Ordiar et caeso moenia firma Remo, Eductosque pares silvestri ex ubere reges, Crescet et ingenium sub tua iussa meum...
Page 168 - Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui deorum Muneribus sapienter uti Duramque callet pauperiem pati Peiusque leto flagitium timet, Non ille pro caris amicis Aut patria timidus perire.
Page 318 - ... nec tibi clamatae somnus amarus erit. sola eris et solos spectabis, Cynthia, montes et pecus et fines pauperis agricolae. illic te nulli poterunt corrumpere ludi, fanaque peccatis plurima causa tuis. 10 illic assidue tauros spectabis arantes, et vitem docta ponere falce comas ; atque ibi rara feres inculto tura sacello, haedus ubi agrestes corruet ante focos ; protinus et nuda choreas imitabere sura ; omnia ab externo sint modo tuta viro.
Page 315 - ... niger clauderet ora liquor : 'Di maris Aegaei quos sunt penes aequora, Venti, Et quaecumque meum degravat unda caput, Quo rapitis miseros tenerae lanuginis annos?
Page 111 - Vivere si recte nescis decede peritis. Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti : Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius aequo Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.
Page 243 - Messalla meus, cui dulcia poma Delia selectis detrahat arboribus: Et tantum venerata virum, hunc sedula curet, Huic paret atque epulas ipsa ministra gerat.