History of Roman literature ... to the Augustan age
Author : John Colin Dunlop
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Page : 628 pages
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Release : 1828
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Author : John Colin Dunlop
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1828
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Author : John Colin Dunlop
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Latin literature
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Author : John Colin Dunlop
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Latin literature
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Author : John Colin Dunlop
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1828
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Author : John Colin Dunlop
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 1827
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Author : John Colin Dunlop
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Latin literature
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Author : John Dunlop
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : History
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"In almost all States, poetical composition has been employed and considerably improved before prose. First, because the imagination expands sooner than reason or judgment; and, secondly, because the early language of nations is best adapted to the purposes of poetry, and to the expression of those feelings and sentiments with which it is conversant. Thus, in the first ages of Greece, verse was the ordinary written language, and prose was subsequently introduced as an art and invention. In like manner, at Rome, during the early advances of poetry, the progress of which has been detailed in the preceding volume, prose composition continued in a state of neglect and barbarism. The most ancient prose writer, at least of those whose works have descended to us, was a man of little feeling or imagination, but of sound judgment and inflexible character, who exercised his pen on the subject of Agriculture, which, of all the peaceful arts, was most highly esteemed by his countrymen....."
Author : Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 2023-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 336836748X
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Author : John Colin Dunlop
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Latin literature
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Author : Hermann Bender
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Latin literature
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