Life of Quintus Horatius FlaccusJ. Murray, 1854 - 194 pages |
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... youth . For this was clearly the " angulus iste , " the nook which " restored him to himself ; " this , the lovely spot which his steward longed to exchange for the slums of Rome . Below lay the greensward by the river , where it was ...
... youth . For this was clearly the " angulus iste , " the nook which " restored him to himself ; " this , the lovely spot which his steward longed to exchange for the slums of Rome . Below lay the greensward by the river , where it was ...
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... Augustan Age of Letters . His life is the image of his eventful times . In his youth he plunges into the fierce and sanguinary civil # 58585858585859 A www war ; and afterwards subsiding quietly into literary ease ,. VENUSIA. ...
... Augustan Age of Letters . His life is the image of his eventful times . In his youth he plunges into the fierce and sanguinary civil # 58585858585859 A www war ; and afterwards subsiding quietly into literary ease ,. VENUSIA. ...
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... youth . The father of Horace exercised the function of collector of payments at auctions . ) The collector was a public servant . This comparatively humble office was probably paid according to the number of sales , and the value of the ...
... youth . The father of Horace exercised the function of collector of payments at auctions . ) The collector was a public servant . This comparatively humble office was probably paid according to the number of sales , and the value of the ...
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... but as he grew to youth , the father , either discerning some promise in the boy , or from paternal fondness , determined to devote GGXGGXGGXGGXGGX XGGXGGXGGXGGX himself entirely to the education of his son . by. LIFE OF HORACE .
... but as he grew to youth , the father , either discerning some promise in the boy , or from paternal fondness , determined to devote GGXGGXGGXGGXGGX XGGXGGXGGXGGX himself entirely to the education of his son . by. LIFE OF HORACE .
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... youth should be depressed by the feeling of inferiority , provided him with whatever was necessary to make a respectable appearance , dress and slaves to attend him , as if he had been of an ancient family . But though the parent thus ...
... youth should be depressed by the feeling of inferiority , provided him with whatever was necessary to make a respectable appearance , dress and slaves to attend him , as if he had been of an ancient family . But though the parent thus ...
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