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... elaborate ceremonial , and predestined by the divine will to its career of Empire . Hence it is that he is careful to weave into his narrative all manner of religious references , allusions , and associations . Sacred places and cus ...
... elaborate ceremonial , and predestined by the divine will to its career of Empire . Hence it is that he is careful to weave into his narrative all manner of religious references , allusions , and associations . Sacred places and cus ...
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... the idea : sometimes by the use of rare or choice words , unusual turns of phrase , stretches of meaning , or even stretches of grammar . The first we may call the simple , the second the elaborate or artificial style . INTRODUCTION . 15.
... the idea : sometimes by the use of rare or choice words , unusual turns of phrase , stretches of meaning , or even stretches of grammar . The first we may call the simple , the second the elaborate or artificial style . INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... elaborate style Hamlet's exclamation to the Ghost : " but tell Why thy canonized bones , hearsed in death , Have burst their cerements . " Or this , from Richard II .: " Ere my tongue Shall sound my honour with such feeble using Or ...
... elaborate style Hamlet's exclamation to the Ghost : " but tell Why thy canonized bones , hearsed in death , Have burst their cerements . " Or this , from Richard II .: " Ere my tongue Shall sound my honour with such feeble using Or ...
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... elaborate and forcible style . Now Vergil's poetry belongs largely to this second class . It is true that he can be simple , and often is : he is much too great an artist to ignore any poetic resource . But for the most part he does not ...
... elaborate and forcible style . Now Vergil's poetry belongs largely to this second class . It is true that he can be simple , and often is : he is much too great an artist to ignore any poetic resource . But for the most part he does not ...
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... elaborate but effective description . 358. [ nata . Others read ( with good MSS . ) natae , gen . after hy- menaeis ; but the construction would be harsh . His daughter and the Phrygian marriage ' is much more like Vergil . ] 359. datur ...
... elaborate but effective description . 358. [ nata . Others read ( with good MSS . ) natae , gen . after hy- menaeis ; but the construction would be harsh . His daughter and the Phrygian marriage ' is much more like Vergil . ] 359. datur ...
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