Life of Quintus Horatius FlaccusJ. Murray, 1854 - 194 pages |
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... Emperor himself , to his humbler private friend , or to his bailiff . He unites , in the same way , the literary with the social life ; he shows the station assumed by or granted to mere men of letters , when the orator in the senate or ...
... Emperor himself , to his humbler private friend , or to his bailiff . He unites , in the same way , the literary with the social life ; he shows the station assumed by or granted to mere men of letters , when the orator in the senate or ...
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... emperor's favourite , and at length into the poetical courtier of the emperor himself . Horace indeed asserted and maintained greater independence of personal character than most subjects of the new empire ; there is a tone of dignity ...
... emperor's favourite , and at length into the poetical courtier of the emperor himself . Horace indeed asserted and maintained greater independence of personal character than most subjects of the new empire ; there is a tone of dignity ...
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... emperor , by his new title , Augustus . The third relates to his dear friend and brother poet , Virgil ; then comes the solemn moral strain to Sestius , fol- lowed by perhaps the most finished of his love - songs , to Pyrrha ...
... emperor , by his new title , Augustus . The third relates to his dear friend and brother poet , Virgil ; then comes the solemn moral strain to Sestius , fol- lowed by perhaps the most finished of his love - songs , to Pyrrha ...
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... emperor's friend , to the poet in whose compositions the shrewd and sagacious WERWERWERWERWEL emperor is said himself to have desired to be en- ...
... emperor's friend , to the poet in whose compositions the shrewd and sagacious WERWERWERWERWEL emperor is said himself to have desired to be en- ...
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Henry Hart Milman. emperor is said himself to have desired to be en- shrined for the admiration of posterity . The first advances to intimacy with the poet came from the emperor himself . Augustus had at first been his own secretary ; he ...
Henry Hart Milman. emperor is said himself to have desired to be en- shrined for the admiration of posterity . The first advances to intimacy with the poet came from the emperor himself . Augustus had at first been his own secretary ; he ...
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