Preparatory and College Latin Courses in English (condensed and Consolidated)Chautauqua Press, 1889 - 498 Seiten |
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... literature is still to us little more than a name . It is En'ni - us . Ennius is praised by Cicero , by Lu - cre'ti ... literature of the Roman theater , possess alone among Latin writings that peculiar popular interest which seems , in ...
... literature is still to us little more than a name . It is En'ni - us . Ennius is praised by Cicero , by Lu - cre'ti ... literature of the Roman theater , possess alone among Latin writings that peculiar popular interest which seems , in ...
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... literature . This , however , seems to be a general fact in literary history . It has even been suggested that you may measure the advance of a people in the liter- ary art by the degree to which prose has secured for itself among them ...
... literature . This , however , seems to be a general fact in literary history . It has even been suggested that you may measure the advance of a people in the liter- ary art by the degree to which prose has secured for itself among them ...
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... literature should have been , as Cato undoubtedly was , quite sincerely and cordially a despiser of literature . Cato wrote to decry writing , as Carlyle lately deafened us all to recom- mend silence . Unhappily , Cato is now mainly but ...
... literature should have been , as Cato undoubtedly was , quite sincerely and cordially a despiser of literature . Cato wrote to decry writing , as Carlyle lately deafened us all to recom- mend silence . Unhappily , Cato is now mainly but ...
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... suggest the roll - call of illus- trious orators that Rome , before eloquence died with liberty in Rome , could boast , in not unsuccessful rivalship with Greece . Cato , as founder of history for Rome , had The Literature of Rome . 15.
... suggest the roll - call of illus- trious orators that Rome , before eloquence died with liberty in Rome , could boast , in not unsuccessful rivalship with Greece . Cato , as founder of history for Rome , had The Literature of Rome . 15.
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... literature and the students of Roman antiquity ; and , fourth , Tacitus , grave , severe , pathetic - but loftily , in- dignantly pathetic , with pathos made bitter and virile by sarcasm - illustrating in his practice that definition of ...
... literature and the students of Roman antiquity ; and , fourth , Tacitus , grave , severe , pathetic - but loftily , in- dignantly pathetic , with pathos made bitter and virile by sarcasm - illustrating in his practice that definition of ...
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admirable Æneas Æneid ancient Antony Ariovistus arms army Augustus battle better Bocchus Caius called camp Carthage Carthaginian Catiline cavalry character Cicero comedy Conington consul COURSE IN ENGLISH crime Dæmones death Demea Demosthenes Dido dreadful eloquence emperor empire enemy eyes Fabius fame father fear feel fortune friends Gaul genius give glory gods Greek Gripus hand Hannibal heaven historian Homer honor Horace Horace's horse Jugurtha Julius Cæsar Juvenal Latin legion literary literature live Livy Lucretius Marius mind Nero Nervii never o'er once orator Ovid Palæstra passage perhaps person Plautus Pliny poem poet poetry praise present Quintilian readers Roman Rome Sallust satire seems senate Seneca sent slave soldiers speech spirit story style Tacitus tell Terence thee thing thou thought tion translation Trojans verse Virgil whole words writer youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 415 - Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Seite 395 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
Seite 83 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on : 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the " Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Seite 475 - For it appears to be a matter highly deserving your consideration, more especially as great numbers must be involved in the danger of these prosecutions, which have already extended, and are still likely to extend, to persons of all ranks and ages, and even of both sexes. In fact, this contagious superstition is not confined to the cities only, but has spread its infection among the neighboring villages and country.
Seite 154 - His banish'd gods restor'd to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome.
Seite 209 - ... him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty : and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not...
Seite 392 - To thee, the world its present homage pays, The harvest early, but mature the praise...
Seite 394 - And rarely av'rice taints the tuneful mind. Allow him but his plaything of a Pen, He ne'er rebels, or plots, like other men...
Seite 376 - Rejoices with a wholesome fear, And hopes in spite of pain ; If Winter bellow from the north, Soon the sweet Spring comes dancing forth, And Nature laughs again. What if thine Heaven be overcast, The dark appearance will not last ; Expect a brighter sky. The God that strings the silver bow Awakes sometimes the muses too, And lays his arrows by.
Seite 149 - Whatever part of heaven thou shalt obtain, (For let not hell presume of such a reign ; Nor let so dire a thirst of empire move Thy mind, to leave thy kindred gods above ; Though Greece admires Elysium's blest retreat...