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... Virgil would have despised them . He would have thought that their motive , if not their poetry , might save them . Virgil's splendid praise of Italy is in the minds of all their authors , and something of that patriot fervour , a love ...
... Virgil would have despised them . He would have thought that their motive , if not their poetry , might save them . Virgil's splendid praise of Italy is in the minds of all their authors , and something of that patriot fervour , a love ...
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... Virgil , and that is a mistake from which we are only now recovering . The bitterest contempt for Virgil's powers , both in epic and in pastoral , came from Germany . I will not read here , as I had once intended , the comic ...
... Virgil , and that is a mistake from which we are only now recovering . The bitterest contempt for Virgil's powers , both in epic and in pastoral , came from Germany . I will not read here , as I had once intended , the comic ...
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British Academy. Christ . Popular fancies ran into still greater extravagances . Virgil the prophet became Virgil the magician . Round his name grew a mass of fantastic tales , which , originating perhaps at Naples , spread all over ...
British Academy. Christ . Popular fancies ran into still greater extravagances . Virgil the prophet became Virgil the magician . Round his name grew a mass of fantastic tales , which , originating perhaps at Naples , spread all over ...
Contents
VERGILS CREATIVE ART Annual Lecture on Aspects of Art | 17 |
VIRGIL IN ENGLISH POETRY Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 39 |
VIRGIL Annual Lecture on a Master Mind By J W Mackail | 55 |
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