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... things , which charmed the educated Romans so much in the Greek epics , Vergil transplanted and naturalised in his own stately and melodious verse . Moreover , by going back to Aeneas and the tale of Troy , he raised the destinies of ...
... things , which charmed the educated Romans so much in the Greek epics , Vergil transplanted and naturalised in his own stately and melodious verse . Moreover , by going back to Aeneas and the tale of Troy , he raised the destinies of ...
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... thing compared is prominent , it lies on the surface : the simile is an ornament rather than a true illustration . The art is shewn in the workmanship rather than in the choice of the comparison : in its vividness , beauty , and truth ...
... thing compared is prominent , it lies on the surface : the simile is an ornament rather than a true illustration . The art is shewn in the workmanship rather than in the choice of the comparison : in its vividness , beauty , and truth ...
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... things said naturally of the actors and actions in his drama seem to have a wider significance , to touch deeper springs in our nature , and to haunt the memory with a charm which we cannot quite explain1 . These abound in the Second ...
... things said naturally of the actors and actions in his drama seem to have a wider significance , to touch deeper springs in our nature , and to haunt the memory with a charm which we cannot quite explain1 . These abound in the Second ...
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... things more require a word : the Laocoon story , and the unfinished lines . The story of Laocoon is not Homeric , but it appears to have been treated by various subsequent writers , notably by Sophocles , a few fragments of whose ...
... things more require a word : the Laocoon story , and the unfinished lines . The story of Laocoon is not Homeric , but it appears to have been treated by various subsequent writers , notably by Sophocles , a few fragments of whose ...
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... his thoughts in the simplest , but rather in the most striking manner . He often employs ' an elaboration of language which disdains or is unable to say a plain thing in a plain way1 ? He arrests attention 18 INTRODUCTION .
... his thoughts in the simplest , but rather in the most striking manner . He often employs ' an elaboration of language which disdains or is unable to say a plain thing in a plain way1 ? He arrests attention 18 INTRODUCTION .
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ACCORDING TO ST Achilles Adparent Aeneas Aeneid Anchises animi arma atque Ave Maria Lane caelo Calchas Cambridge Warehouse Catalogue circum cloth coniunx Coroebus Creusa Crown 8vo Crown Octavo Danai Danaum Demy 8vo Demy Octavo deum dextra divom domus Edition Editor English Notes enim Fellow of Trinity flammae gods GOSPEL ACCORDING Greek haec Hector Homer horse Iamque Introduction and Notes ipse Iuppiter king Laocoon Laomedon Latin limina LL.D M. T. Ciceronis M.A. Price magna manu Maps meaning mihi moenia muros Mycenas Neoptolemus numina nunc Octavo omnes Oratio P. G. TAIT Pallas Panthus patria phrase poem poenas poet poetic Priam Price 25 Professor Pyrrhus quae Quarto quid quod Revised Roman sanguine sense St John's College summa tela Teucri tibi translation Trinity College Troia Trojans Troy Ulixes ultro University of Cambridge urbi verb Vergil Vergilian word
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