Critical Essays on Roman Literature, Volume 2John Patrick Sullivan Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962 - Latin literature |
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... character . When a few years later Horace composed his Odes , he felt enterprising enough to assume several quite different masks in different poems : in one he is the inspired bard , in another the wistful , ageing lover , in still ...
... character . When a few years later Horace composed his Odes , he felt enterprising enough to assume several quite different masks in different poems : in one he is the inspired bard , in another the wistful , ageing lover , in still ...
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... character . The Latin character , based on the similar Greek word , does not yet possess all the connotations of our ' character ' , and I do not therefore mean that Varro's phrase precisely describes the dramatic role of the satirist ...
... character . The Latin character , based on the similar Greek word , does not yet possess all the connotations of our ' character ' , and I do not therefore mean that Varro's phrase precisely describes the dramatic role of the satirist ...
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... character who does not differ entirely from the satirist ; in fact , the satirist affects to repeat the doctrines of Ofellus , a man whom he respects . The early comments of the satirist , in which he disclaims personal responsi- bility ...
... character who does not differ entirely from the satirist ; in fact , the satirist affects to repeat the doctrines of Ofellus , a man whom he respects . The early comments of the satirist , in which he disclaims personal responsi- bility ...
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