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... Virgil has told the same thing to that pur- pose . " " This expression from a secretary of the pre- sent time would be considered as merely ludi- crous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that ...
... Virgil has told the same thing to that pur- pose . " " This expression from a secretary of the pre- sent time would be considered as merely ludi- crous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that ...
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... Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Da- videis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . " There are not many ...
... Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Da- videis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . " There are not many ...
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... Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumspicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campo quod forte jacebat Limes agro positus , litem ut discerneret ...
... Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumspicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campo quod forte jacebat Limes agro positus , litem ut discerneret ...
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... Virgil , always : in whom the examples are in- numerable , and taken notice of by all judicious men , so that it is superfluous to collect them . ” I know not whether he has , in many of these instances , attained the representation or ...
... Virgil , always : in whom the examples are in- numerable , and taken notice of by all judicious men , so that it is superfluous to collect them . ” I know not whether he has , in many of these instances , attained the representation or ...
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... Virgil's state , isiq to nama He did not steal , but emulater bus toigils of bAnd when he would like them appear , loemise I Their garb , but not their clothes , did weari tud Pred to worst 9 As one of Denham's principal claims to the ...
... Virgil's state , isiq to nama He did not steal , but emulater bus toigils of bAnd when he would like them appear , loemise I Their garb , but not their clothes , did weari tud Pred to worst 9 As one of Denham's principal claims to the ...
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