The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John RuskinW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 - 536 páginas |
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... Virgil read Ennius . The reading of Homer and Virgil is counselled by Quintilian as the best way of informing youth and confirming man . For , besides that the mind is raised with the height and sublimity of such a verse , it takes ...
... Virgil read Ennius . The reading of Homer and Virgil is counselled by Quintilian as the best way of informing youth and confirming man . For , besides that the mind is raised with the height and sublimity of such a verse , it takes ...
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... Virgil's verses backward and forward ; and yet the same party vowed to God that he knew not he could do it till they did try him . Sure there is con- cealed strength in men's memories which they take no notice of . 6. Marshal thy ...
... Virgil's verses backward and forward ; and yet the same party vowed to God that he knew not he could do it till they did try him . Sure there is con- cealed strength in men's memories which they take no notice of . 6. Marshal thy ...
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... Virgil tells us that when bees swarm in the air , and two armies meeting together fight as it were a set battle with great violence , cast but a little dust upon them and they will be quiet . + " Hi motus animorum , atque hæc certamina ...
... Virgil tells us that when bees swarm in the air , and two armies meeting together fight as it were a set battle with great violence , cast but a little dust upon them and they will be quiet . + " Hi motus animorum , atque hæc certamina ...
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... Virgil ( as you will find anon by his verses ) was to be a good philosopher ; the second , a good husbandman : and God ( whom he seemed to understand better than most of the most learned heathens ) dealt with him , just as He did with ...
... Virgil ( as you will find anon by his verses ) was to be a good philosopher ; the second , a good husbandman : and God ( whom he seemed to understand better than most of the most learned heathens ) dealt with him , just as He did with ...
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... Virgil's Georgics , Pliny , Varro , or Columella ; but to instruct their pupils in the whole method and course of this study , which might be run through perhaps , with diligence , in a year or two : and the continual succession of ...
... Virgil's Georgics , Pliny , Varro , or Columella ; but to instruct their pupils in the whole method and course of this study , which might be run through perhaps , with diligence , in a year or two : and the continual succession of ...
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