Lives of Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, and Titus Pomponius Atticus: The Latter from the Latin of Cornelius NeposJ. Ballantyne & Company, 1813 - 178 |
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... Virgil , Horace , Varius , Heliodorus , and several other men of letters . The important affairs in which this able minister was concerned , were no interruptions to his natural and usual gaiety . His attention was never turned from the ...
... Virgil , Horace , Varius , Heliodorus , and several other men of letters . The important affairs in which this able minister was concerned , were no interruptions to his natural and usual gaiety . His attention was never turned from the ...
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... Virgil without having his taste corrected , and his morals amended ? Whilst Cæsar was using every means in his power to gain the affections of the senate and people , Antony and Cleopatra were rioting in all the luxury of the East ...
... Virgil without having his taste corrected , and his morals amended ? Whilst Cæsar was using every means in his power to gain the affections of the senate and people , Antony and Cleopatra were rioting in all the luxury of the East ...
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... Virgil , and yet no historical circumstance has come to our knowledge sufficient to evince it . The 4 3 Huc veniet Messala meus , cui dulcia poma Delia selectis detrahet arboribus . - TIBULLUS , b . i . eleg . 5 . Stanhope * shall come ...
... Virgil , and yet no historical circumstance has come to our knowledge sufficient to evince it . The 4 3 Huc veniet Messala meus , cui dulcia poma Delia selectis detrahet arboribus . - TIBULLUS , b . i . eleg . 5 . Stanhope * shall come ...
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... Virgil by some grave authorities , grows more suspicious eve- ry day . Tacitus , whose judgment of man- kind is indisputable , and whose decision is not always in the most favourable point of view , seems fond of praising Messala ; and ...
... Virgil by some grave authorities , grows more suspicious eve- ry day . Tacitus , whose judgment of man- kind is indisputable , and whose decision is not always in the most favourable point of view , seems fond of praising Messala ; and ...
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... Virgil has made him immortal . Bayle says , his eu- logium is introduced with such exquisite skill into the Eneid , and turned in so wonderful a manner , that the most insensible reader must be affected by it . " Je l'ai lu ...
... Virgil has made him immortal . Bayle says , his eu- logium is introduced with such exquisite skill into the Eneid , and turned in so wonderful a manner , that the most insensible reader must be affected by it . " Je l'ai lu ...
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