A History of Roman Classical LiteratureR. Bentley, 1853 - 591 strán (strany) |
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Strana xiv
... Moral and Political Lessons inculcated in them - Specimens of Fables - Fables suggested by His- torical events - Sejanus and Tiberius - Epoch unfavourable to Litera- ture - Ingenuity of Phædrus - Superiority of Æsop - The style of Pha ...
... Moral and Political Lessons inculcated in them - Specimens of Fables - Fables suggested by His- torical events - Sejanus and Tiberius - Epoch unfavourable to Litera- ture - Ingenuity of Phædrus - Superiority of Æsop - The style of Pha ...
Strana 69
... moral : its primary object was discipline , its secondary one re- finement . If it cultivated the intellectual powers , it was with a view to disciplining the moral faculties . To this pure culture the old Roman character owed its ...
... moral : its primary object was discipline , its secondary one re- finement . If it cultivated the intellectual powers , it was with a view to disciplining the moral faculties . To this pure culture the old Roman character owed its ...
Strana 72
... 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 dispo- sition ...
... 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 dispo- sition ...
Strana 88
Robert William Browne. long before we are attracted by the hidden power of moral ex- cellence , and external form creates a prejudice in favour of that which is of more intrinsic value , but cannot so readily be per- ceived , so the ...
Robert William Browne. long before we are attracted by the hidden power of moral ex- cellence , and external form creates a prejudice in favour of that which is of more intrinsic value , but cannot so readily be per- ceived , so the ...
Strana 98
... moral precepts , an encomium on his friend Scipio Africanus , a trans- lation in hexameters of a poem on edible fishes and their locali- ties , by Archestratus ( Phagetica , ) and a work entitled Asotus , the existence of which is only ...
... moral precepts , an encomium on his friend Scipio Africanus , a trans- lation in hexameters of a poem on edible fishes and their locali- ties , by Archestratus ( Phagetica , ) and a work entitled Asotus , the existence of which is only ...
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