Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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... the 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 .
... the 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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... literature was dying under the influence of despotism and immorality , the new religion was building up a form of reflection and sentiment which cared little for the temporalities of mankind . If Virgil wrote the Georgics to make ...
... literature was dying under the influence of despotism and immorality , the new religion was building up a form of reflection and sentiment which cared little for the temporalities of mankind . If Virgil wrote the Georgics to make ...
Page 12
... literature of abstraction and credulity . The destruction of Jerusalem had broken up all the relations of Judaism and its offspring to an earthly nation . The Jews were scattered and broken - hearted ; the Christians looked only to a ...
... literature of abstraction and credulity . The destruction of Jerusalem had broken up all the relations of Judaism and its offspring to an earthly nation . The Jews were scattered and broken - hearted ; the Christians looked only to a ...
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... literature because it had been eliminated from all public life . Tacitus had a human style . He spoke and might yet speak to the entire human family . His last para- graph on Emperor Otho would fit into any existing newspaper or ...
... literature because it had been eliminated from all public life . Tacitus had a human style . He spoke and might yet speak to the entire human family . His last para- graph on Emperor Otho would fit into any existing newspaper or ...
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... 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 Antheus , or Capys , or ...
... 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 Antheus , or Capys , or ...
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