Poetical Works, 3. numberHoughton Mifflin, 1950 - 1095 pages |
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Page 297
... Roman satire . Those silli were indeed in- vective poems , but of a different species from the Roman poems of Ennius , Pacuvius , Lucilius , Horace , and the rest of their suc- cessors . They were so call'd , says Casaubon in one place ...
... Roman satire . Those silli were indeed in- vective poems , but of a different species from the Roman poems of Ennius , Pacuvius , Lucilius , Horace , and the rest of their suc- cessors . They were so call'd , says Casaubon in one place ...
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... Roman born , but to all others of every nation . They play'd not the former ex tempore stuff of Fescennine verses , or clownish jests ; but what they acted was a kind of civil , cleanly farce , with music and dances , and motions that ...
... Roman born , but to all others of every nation . They play'd not the former ex tempore stuff of Fescennine verses , or clownish jests ; but what they acted was a kind of civil , cleanly farce , with music and dances , and motions that ...
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... Roman children of quality wore . These were welted with purple , and on those welts were fasten'd the bulla , or little bells ; which , when they came to the age of puberty , were hung up , and consecrated to the Lares , or household ...
... Roman children of quality wore . These were welted with purple , and on those welts were fasten'd the bulla , or little bells ; which , when they came to the age of puberty , were hung up , and consecrated to the Lares , or household ...
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | xvii |
EARLY POEMS | liv |
UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD | 1 |
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