Old Pictures of Life, Volumen2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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... speech of Demosthenes for a crown . Under the Latin flag , the Greek decline was somewhat arrested and literature and all wisdom reached such a height that popular poets like Virgil began to sing of a golden 4 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
... speech of Demosthenes for a crown . Under the Latin flag , the Greek decline was somewhat arrested and literature and all wisdom reached such a height that popular poets like Virgil began to sing of a golden 4 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
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David Swing. popular poets like Virgil began to sing of a golden age . The subsequent satires of Martial and Juvenal expose the brass or cheap gilt of the Augustan period . Cicero and Cæsar and hundreds of great men had been assassinated ...
David Swing. popular poets like Virgil began to sing of a golden age . The subsequent satires of Martial and Juvenal expose the brass or cheap gilt of the Augustan period . Cicero and Cæsar and hundreds of great men had been assassinated ...
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... greatest oration spoke about four hours without using a single line of poetry or a single phrase from the storehouse of fancy . In the speeches of Demosthenes , no flower bloomed , no bird fluttered with ΙΟ OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
... greatest oration spoke about four hours without using a single line of poetry or a single phrase from the storehouse of fancy . In the speeches of Demosthenes , no flower bloomed , no bird fluttered with ΙΟ OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
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... poetry of Virgil the literature is as simple and intelligible as an orchard of apples or a field of wheat . " In the meantime Æneas climbs up a hill- side that he may get a wider survey of the sea . He hopes to find in sight the ship ...
... poetry of Virgil the literature is as simple and intelligible as an orchard of apples or a field of wheat . " In the meantime Æneas climbs up a hill- side that he may get a wider survey of the sea . He hopes to find in sight the ship ...
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... poetry , plenty of courage and am- bition . Along Cæsar's path to Britain the Druids flourished . Their religion , as described by that general , was not much better or worse than his own . It dealt in many virtues , in worship and ...
... poetry , plenty of courage and am- bition . Along Cæsar's path to Britain the Druids flourished . Their religion , as described by that general , was not much better or worse than his own . It dealt in many virtues , in worship and ...
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