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... examples to elucidate it , not evidence to prove it . The same enforced brevity has often prevented me from deve ... example , I have given a short sketch . of the grammar of Propertius without , as a rule , attempting to frame it ...
... examples to elucidate it , not evidence to prove it . The same enforced brevity has often prevented me from deve ... example , I have given a short sketch . of the grammar of Propertius without , as a rule , attempting to frame it ...
Page xxx
... example of his patron . And the terms in which he addresses Maecenas are suggestive of friendly and sympathetic relations , not of importunate officiousness on the one side judiciously avoided on the other3 . Chief among 1 Rom . Hist ...
... example of his patron . And the terms in which he addresses Maecenas are suggestive of friendly and sympathetic relations , not of importunate officiousness on the one side judiciously avoided on the other3 . Chief among 1 Rom . Hist ...
Page xliv
... examples have not been weeded like the Propertian , and that , if we counted up the instances where the phrase is really otiose , the 1 I have used Le Maire's Index to obtain these results , and I have selected the most characteristic ...
... examples have not been weeded like the Propertian , and that , if we counted up the instances where the phrase is really otiose , the 1 I have used Le Maire's Index to obtain these results , and I have selected the most characteristic ...
Page xlvi
... example which might perhaps be thought to make against the argument . It is not the truly brave man who is continually saying ' Who's afraid ? ' It is rather he who can ask Lack of courage . with the young Nelson , ' Fear ! I never saw ...
... example which might perhaps be thought to make against the argument . It is not the truly brave man who is continually saying ' Who's afraid ? ' It is rather he who can ask Lack of courage . with the young Nelson , ' Fear ! I never saw ...
Page xlix
... prosint illi cognita nostra mala , which shews that Propertius ' teaching was rather by example than precept . We find praecepta about love also in 1. 1. 35 sqq . , 1. 9 , 1. 10. 15—30 , 111 . 20 ( 17 ) . 21 sqq . , and INTRODUCTION . xlix.
... prosint illi cognita nostra mala , which shews that Propertius ' teaching was rather by example than precept . We find praecepta about love also in 1. 1. 35 sqq . , 1. 9 , 1. 10. 15—30 , 111 . 20 ( 17 ) . 21 sqq . , and INTRODUCTION . xlix.
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