A History of Roman Classical LiteratureBlanchard and Lea, 1857 - 450 strán (strany) |
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Strana xiv
... Moral and Political Lessons inculcated in them - Specimens of Fables - Fables suggested by Historical events- Sejanus and Tiberius - Epoch unfavorable to Literature - Ingenuity of Phædrus - Superiority of Æsop - The style of Phædrus ...
... Moral and Political Lessons inculcated in them - Specimens of Fables - Fables suggested by Historical events- Sejanus and Tiberius - Epoch unfavorable to Literature - Ingenuity of Phædrus - Superiority of Æsop - The style of Phædrus ...
Strana 65
... moral : its primary object was discipline , its secondary one refinement . If it cultivated the intellectual powers , it was with a view to dis- ciplining the moral faculties . To this pure culture the old Roman character owed its vigor ...
... moral : its primary object was discipline , its secondary one refinement . If it cultivated the intellectual powers , it was with a view to dis- ciplining the moral faculties . To this pure culture the old Roman character owed its vigor ...
Strana 67
... moral influence exercised by it , depends not upon an æsthetic appreciation of the beautiful , but on a high sense of moral duty ; and such a sense displays itself in a stern and indignant abhorrence of vice rather than a disposition to ...
... moral influence exercised by it , depends not upon an æsthetic appreciation of the beautiful , but on a high sense of moral duty ; and such a sense displays itself in a stern and indignant abhorrence of vice rather than a disposition to ...
Strana 81
... moral excellence , and external form creates a prejudice in favor of that which is of more intrinsic value , but cannot so readily be perceived , so the melody of verse more readily pleases than the beauty of the imagery and sentiments ...
... moral excellence , and external form creates a prejudice in favor of that which is of more intrinsic value , but cannot so readily be perceived , so the melody of verse more readily pleases than the beauty of the imagery and sentiments ...
Strana 90
... moral precepts , an encomium on his friend Scipio Africanus , a transla- tion in hexameters of a poem on edible fishes and their localities , by Archestratus ( Phagetica ) , and a work entitled Asotus , the ex- istence of which is only ...
... moral precepts , an encomium on his friend Scipio Africanus , a transla- tion in hexameters of a poem on edible fishes and their localities , by Archestratus ( Phagetica ) , and a work entitled Asotus , the ex- istence of which is only ...
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Strana 219 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done?
Strana 41 - In verbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis, Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte necesse est Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter ; Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si Graeco fonte cadant, parce detorta.
Strana 296 - ... tu inventrix legum, tu magistra morum et disciplinae fuisti. Ad te confugimus, a te opem petimus, tibi nos, ut antea magna ex parte, sic nunc penitus totosque tradimus.
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