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... Virgil with the first of Statius is not happier . Virgil , he says , is soft and gentle , and would have thought Statius mad , if he had heard him thundering out : Quæ superimposito moles geminata colosso . Statius perhaps heats himself ...
... Virgil with the first of Statius is not happier . Virgil , he says , is soft and gentle , and would have thought Statius mad , if he had heard him thundering out : Quæ superimposito moles geminata colosso . Statius perhaps heats himself ...
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... Virgil would not pretend to prescribe rules for that which depends not on the husbandman's care , but the dis ... Virgil's meaning , and in- telligible to everybody ; and when to sow the corn is a needless addition . " The care of sheep ...
... Virgil would not pretend to prescribe rules for that which depends not on the husbandman's care , but the dis ... Virgil's meaning , and in- telligible to everybody ; and when to sow the corn is a needless addition . " The care of sheep ...
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... Virgil's , no more than the sense of the precedent couplet ; so , again , he interpolates Virgil with that and the round circle of the year guide powerful of blessings , which thou strew'st around . A ridiculous Latinism , and an ...
... Virgil's , no more than the sense of the precedent couplet ; so , again , he interpolates Virgil with that and the round circle of the year guide powerful of blessings , which thou strew'st around . A ridiculous Latinism , and an ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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