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... impressions . ' Such an age will perhaps find that Mr. Sellar's own essay on Virgil is less to its taste than a shorter study , rich in a rapid succession of brilliant and picturesque touches . If one's object were to inspire an English ...
... impressions . ' Such an age will perhaps find that Mr. Sellar's own essay on Virgil is less to its taste than a shorter study , rich in a rapid succession of brilliant and picturesque touches . If one's object were to inspire an English ...
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... impressions from other natures with which it came in contact , without sacrifice of the strong individuality of its own character . What Columella says of the Italian soil- " curae mortalium obsequentissimam esse Italiam , quae paene ...
... impressions from other natures with which it came in contact , without sacrifice of the strong individuality of its own character . What Columella says of the Italian soil- " curae mortalium obsequentissimam esse Italiam , quae paene ...
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... impression produced by the correspondence of Cicero may be deemed more trustworthy than that produced by the appa- rently artless , yet carefully meditated self - delineation in Horace's familiar writings . But we have many phases of ...
... impression produced by the correspondence of Cicero may be deemed more trustworthy than that produced by the appa- rently artless , yet carefully meditated self - delineation in Horace's familiar writings . But we have many phases of ...
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... impression which he made on his contemporaries . There is no mention of him in Tibullus and Propertius , and only one slight notice of him in Ovid ; and that expressive not of any personal interest , but only of appreciation of the ...
... impression which he made on his contemporaries . There is no mention of him in Tibullus and Propertius , and only one slight notice of him in Ovid ; and that expressive not of any personal interest , but only of appreciation of the ...
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... impressions made by outward objects on his imagination . In Horace , the love of nature is shown in the vividness of impression produced by particular scenes1 , and by the hold which these scenes gained on his affections . The earliest ...
... impressions made by outward objects on his imagination . In Horace , the love of nature is shown in the vividness of impression produced by particular scenes1 , and by the hold which these scenes gained on his affections . The earliest ...
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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.