A History of Roman Lierature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus AureliusC. Griffin and Company, 1877 - 503 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... expression have found their way into the modern world , makes them peculiarly worthy of study ; and the deliberate method of undertaking liter- ary composition practised by the great writers and clearly trace- able in their productions ...
... expression have found their way into the modern world , makes them peculiarly worthy of study ; and the deliberate method of undertaking liter- ary composition practised by the great writers and clearly trace- able in their productions ...
Pagina 6
... expression . The great mingling of nationalities in Rome during the Empire necessarily produced a corresponding divergence in style , if not in ideas . Nevertheless , although we can trace the national traits of a Lucan or a Martial ...
... expression . The great mingling of nationalities in Rome during the Empire necessarily produced a corresponding divergence in style , if not in ideas . Nevertheless , although we can trace the national traits of a Lucan or a Martial ...
Pagina 23
... expression of its life and growth , whether in the poet's inspired song or in the sober narrative of the historian . The cause of this striking deficiency is to be sought in the original characteristics of the Latin race . The Latin ...
... expression of its life and growth , whether in the poet's inspired song or in the sober narrative of the historian . The cause of this striking deficiency is to be sought in the original characteristics of the Latin race . The Latin ...
Pagina 27
... expression . The fact , also , that the Romans possessed no native term for a poet is highly significant . Poeta , which we find as early as Nae- vius , 1 is Greek ; and vates , which Zeuss 2 traces to a Celtic root , meant originally ...
... expression . The fact , also , that the Romans possessed no native term for a poet is highly significant . Poeta , which we find as early as Nae- vius , 1 is Greek ; and vates , which Zeuss 2 traces to a Celtic root , meant originally ...
Pagina 30
... expression , were not allowed to be polluted by pro- fessional actors . But this hindered their progress , and it was not until several centuries after their introduction , viz . , in the time of Sulla , that they received literary ...
... expression , were not allowed to be polluted by pro- fessional actors . But this hindered their progress , and it was not until several centuries after their introduction , viz . , in the time of Sulla , that they received literary ...
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Pagina 4 - The Christian Year. Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days throughout the Year.
Pagina 19 - The most complete, as well as elegant and correct edition of Virgil ever published in this country.
Pagina 184 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Pagina 418 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Pagina 299 - Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa. Tibulle, mors iuvenem campos misit ad Elysios, ne foret, aut elegis molles qui fleret amores aut caneret forti regia bella pede.
Pagina 31 - Clever and amusing . . . above the average even of good novels . . . free from sensationalism, but full of interest . . . touches the deeper chords of life . . . delineation of character remarkably good." — Spectator. " Superior in all respects to the common run of novels.
Pagina 326 - Lex horrendi carminis erat: duumviri perduellionem iudicent. Si a duumviris provocarit, provocatione certato. Si vincent, caput obnubito, infelici arbori reste suspendito, verberato vel intra pomerium vel extra pomerium.
Pagina 16 - ELEMENTS OF METALLURGY. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART OF EXTRACTING METALS FROM THEIR ORES. BY J. ARTHUR PHILLIPS, M.lNST.OE, FCS, FGS, <fcc.
Pagina 227 - ... pascit amore avidos inhians in te, dea, visus, eque tuo pendet resupini spiritus ore.
Pagina 16 - GENERAL CONTENTS : I. — A TREATISE on FUELS and REFRACTORY MATERIALS. II.— A Description of the principal METALLIFEROUS MINERALS, with their DISTRIBUTION. III. — STATISTICS of the amount of each METAL annually produced throughout the World, obtained from official sources, or, where this has not been practicable, from authentic private information. IV. — The METHODS of ASSAYING the different ORES, together with the PROCESSES of METALLURGICAL TREATMENT, comprising : Refractory Materials. Antimony....