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... device . In cult worship she was sometimes given a bolt , but such a gift may have been due to Etruscan influence ; for in Etruria there were nine gods who hurled the lightning : Jupiter , Juno , Minerva , Vulcan , Mars , Saturn ...
... device . In cult worship she was sometimes given a bolt , but such a gift may have been due to Etruscan influence ; for in Etruria there were nine gods who hurled the lightning : Jupiter , Juno , Minerva , Vulcan , Mars , Saturn ...
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... devices of sublimity he cites illustrations indiscriminately from Demosthenes and Plato , from Homer and the tragedians.39 Aristotle evidently saw no essential difference , since he protested against applying a common name to all 30 ...
... devices of sublimity he cites illustrations indiscriminately from Demosthenes and Plato , from Homer and the tragedians.39 Aristotle evidently saw no essential difference , since he protested against applying a common name to all 30 ...
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... devices described by Longinus as producing sublimity are largely the same as the figures with which Quintilian deals in his Institutio Oratoria . Further , in listing the characteristics of the poet of satire Horace classes rhetoric and ...
... devices described by Longinus as producing sublimity are largely the same as the figures with which Quintilian deals in his Institutio Oratoria . Further , in listing the characteristics of the poet of satire Horace classes rhetoric and ...
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... devices of ornamentation " , contribute toward suavitas : " in idem genus orationis ... verborum cadunt lumina omnia , multa etiam sententiarum . . . est enim quoddam etiam insigne et florens orationis pictum et expolitum genus , in quo ...
... devices of ornamentation " , contribute toward suavitas : " in idem genus orationis ... verborum cadunt lumina omnia , multa etiam sententiarum . . . est enim quoddam etiam insigne et florens orationis pictum et expolitum genus , in quo ...
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... devices of the grand style , he constantly warns his reader against mistaking these devices , the outward accompaniments of sublimity , for sublimity itself . The sublime is rather the tone which usually finds expression in such figures ...
... devices of the grand style , he constantly warns his reader against mistaking these devices , the outward accompaniments of sublimity , for sublimity itself . The sublime is rather the tone which usually finds expression in such figures ...
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Aeneid ALFRED TENNYSON amplification Argonautica asyndeton atque augendi causa Calends Carmen Catullus Cicero cult of Juno Curritis deities doth epic parody epic style epithet Falerii festival Fortuna Genius genre goddess grand style Greek haec Hera Hercules Horace Horace's humorous Hymen Hymen Hymenaee illa imitation inscription Iovis ipse Iuno iuvenis Janus Jupiter Juvenal Juvenal's kiss Lanuvium Lesbia lines lofty Longinus Lucan Lucilius Lucina Metam metaphor mihi mock Moneta neque nihil Number nunc omnia Orator origin Otto Ovid parody passage Pauly-Wissowa periphrasis plain style poet poeta poetry Praeneste puellae quae quam quid Quintilian quod Relig rhetorical rites ROBERT HERRICK Röm Roman religion Rome Roscher's Lex satire says Serm Sirmio Smith College Sospita Statius style of epic sublimity sweet temple tenuis thee thinks thou tibi tone verse VIII Virgil's virgins Warde Fowler Wissowa worship καὶ
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Page 31 - Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, And see the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle...
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