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... Virgil ( the only undisputed authors of pastoral ) that the critics have drawn the foregoing notions concerning it . Theocritus excels all others in nature and sim- plicity . The subjects of his Idyllia are purely pastoral ; but he is ...
... Virgil ( the only undisputed authors of pastoral ) that the critics have drawn the foregoing notions concerning it . Theocritus excels all others in nature and sim- plicity . The subjects of his Idyllia are purely pastoral ; but he is ...
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... Virgil will allow to be fit for pastoral : that they have as much variety of description , in respect of the several seasons , as Spenser's ; that in order to add to this variety , the several times of the day are observed , the rural ...
... Virgil will allow to be fit for pastoral : that they have as much variety of description , in respect of the several seasons , as Spenser's ; that in order to add to this variety , the several times of the day are observed , the rural ...
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... Virgil- " Malo me Galatea petit , lasciva puella , Et fugit ad salices , sed se cupit ante videri . " 4 " Aret ager , vitio moriens sitit aëris herba , " & c . 66 Phyllidis adventu nostræ nemus omne virebit . " VIRG . STREPHON . Say ...
... Virgil- " Malo me Galatea petit , lasciva puella , Et fugit ad salices , sed se cupit ante videri . " 4 " Aret ager , vitio moriens sitit aëris herba , " & c . 66 Phyllidis adventu nostræ nemus omne virebit . " VIRG . STREPHON . Say ...
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... Virgil again , from the Cyclops of Theocritus- " Nuper me in littore vidi , Cum placidum ventis staret mare ; non ego Daphnim , Judice te , metuam , si nunquam fallat imago . " 3 The name taken by Spenser in his Eclogues , where his ...
... Virgil again , from the Cyclops of Theocritus- " Nuper me in littore vidi , Cum placidum ventis staret mare ; non ego Daphnim , Judice te , metuam , si nunquam fallat imago . " 3 The name taken by Spenser in his Eclogues , where his ...
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... Virgil's Pollio . ADVERTISEMENT . In reading several passages of the prophet Isaiah , which foretell the coming of ... Virgil . This will not seem surprising , when we reflect , that the eclogue was taken from a Sibylline prophecy on the ...
... Virgil's Pollio . ADVERTISEMENT . In reading several passages of the prophet Isaiah , which foretell the coming of ... Virgil . This will not seem surprising , when we reflect , that the eclogue was taken from a Sibylline prophecy on the ...
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