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... career that students began to invite professors to suppers . An occasion of this sort gave him much pleasure , and he regretted that the custom had not come sooner into vogue . There may be scholars who would feel thrown away and ...
... career that students began to invite professors to suppers . An occasion of this sort gave him much pleasure , and he regretted that the custom had not come sooner into vogue . There may be scholars who would feel thrown away and ...
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... career he took a sympathetic interest . He himself never mixed much in politics . He was a Liberal , and the biographer remembers his defining Liberalism as ' the desire that every one should as much as possible have his full share of ...
... career he took a sympathetic interest . He himself never mixed much in politics . He was a Liberal , and the biographer remembers his defining Liberalism as ' the desire that every one should as much as possible have his full share of ...
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... career , little remains to be told . In the summer of 1890 he had been in unusually good health , and was working very hard to complete this book , to which he gave all but the final touches . One evening in September he caught what ...
... career , little remains to be told . In the summer of 1890 he had been in unusually good health , and was working very hard to complete this book , to which he gave all but the final touches . One evening in September he caught what ...
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... career and great destiny of Rome impressed the imagination during the time of transition from the Republic to the Empire . But of the actual life , and the spiritual and intellectual movement of the age , our best and almost our sole ...
... career and great destiny of Rome impressed the imagination during the time of transition from the Republic to the Empire . But of the actual life , and the spiritual and intellectual movement of the age , our best and almost our sole ...
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... career , he lived on terms of friendly intimacy ; and in his later years he wished to guide and encourage younger men , in whom he recognised promise of literary distinction . But he seems to have felt that preference which Goethe and ...
... career , he lived on terms of friendly intimacy ; and in his later years he wished to guide and encourage younger men , in whom he recognised promise of literary distinction . But he seems to have felt that preference which Goethe and ...
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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.