Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 4
... 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 .
Page 5
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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... poet . These numberless Gauls built good houses of wood and stone mixed . They had metal works , tin and iron . They had quite a good agriculture and were fond of wagons and chariots . They made cheese which Pliny said was sour ; they ...
... poet . These numberless Gauls built good houses of wood and stone mixed . They had metal works , tin and iron . They had quite a good agriculture and were fond of wagons and chariots . They made cheese which Pliny said was sour ; they ...
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... poets like Whittier up to the college presi- dents like Woolsey and Hopkins , should keep so near to the daily needs of the republic that the congress at Washington would see them taking seats in the House or the Senate to help make ...
... poets like Whittier up to the college presi- dents like Woolsey and Hopkins , should keep so near to the daily needs of the republic that the congress at Washington would see them taking seats in the House or the Senate to help make ...
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... Anakreon in some ship which sailed in advance of the barge which brought Homer , for by the time this poet was twenty - five years old he was in love with the daughter of the King of Naples and 86 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
... Anakreon in some ship which sailed in advance of the barge which brought Homer , for by the time this poet was twenty - five years old he was in love with the daughter of the King of Naples and 86 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
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