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... Virgil's ability to make his readers think deeply about empire and civilisation in their own times . Fagles and ... Virgil in British imperial contexts , namely in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . British interest in Virgil ...
... Virgil's ability to make his readers think deeply about empire and civilisation in their own times . Fagles and ... Virgil in British imperial contexts , namely in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . British interest in Virgil ...
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Virgil's practice , and even quoted the passage in Donatus ' Life where Virgil proclaims , ' I am collecting gold from Ennius ' dung ' ( aurum colligo e stercore Ennii ) , he got into trouble over the copied lines and had to resign the ...
Virgil's practice , and even quoted the passage in Donatus ' Life where Virgil proclaims , ' I am collecting gold from Ennius ' dung ' ( aurum colligo e stercore Ennii ) , he got into trouble over the copied lines and had to resign the ...
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... Virgil's epic from its very first line : No , Virgil , no : Not even the first of the Romans can learn His Roman history in the future tense , Not even to serve your political turn ; Hindsight as foresight makes no sense . Cooked up in ...
... Virgil's epic from its very first line : No , Virgil , no : Not even the first of the Romans can learn His Roman history in the future tense , Not even to serve your political turn ; Hindsight as foresight makes no sense . Cooked up in ...
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Lineages of Contemporary Imperialism | 3 |
The Social Question and the Problem of History after | 31 |
Small States and Empire | 53 |
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