The Quarterly Review, Volumes 222-223William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1915 |
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... Sirmio . The volume also contains the Latin text of Tibullus with a spirited English rendering by Prof. Postgate , and as if to fill up the measure of its attractive- ness , it concludes with the delightful Pervigilium Veneris ...
... Sirmio . The volume also contains the Latin text of Tibullus with a spirited English rendering by Prof. Postgate , and as if to fill up the measure of its attractive- ness , it concludes with the delightful Pervigilium Veneris ...
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... Sirmio off the southern coast . A more fitting abode for stimulating the noblest powers of his genius could not have been found in the whole compass of Italy . In Rome , where he threw himself , heart and * xlvi . †lxviii , 19 , 91 ...
... Sirmio off the southern coast . A more fitting abode for stimulating the noblest powers of his genius could not have been found in the whole compass of Italy . In Rome , where he threw himself , heart and * xlvi . †lxviii , 19 , 91 ...
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... Sirmio , which he calls the little gem of all the peninsulas or islands that Neptune bears on lake or sea . He can hardly trust himself at first to believe that he has really left the hot plains of Bithynia , and is now once more in his ...
... Sirmio , which he calls the little gem of all the peninsulas or islands that Neptune bears on lake or sea . He can hardly trust himself at first to believe that he has really left the hot plains of Bithynia , and is now once more in his ...
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... Sirmio of Catullus . At its northern end are some Roman ruins , popularly believed to be the remains of the poet's house ; but they probably belong to a later time , though , as they are placed on the most advantageous site for a ...
... Sirmio of Catullus . At its northern end are some Roman ruins , popularly believed to be the remains of the poet's house ; but they probably belong to a later time , though , as they are placed on the most advantageous site for a ...
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... Sirmio which , we cannot but think , played a notable part among the charms which the place had in the eyes of Catullus . No one can attentively read his poems without observing the remarkable contrast between the tone of his allusions ...
... Sirmio which , we cannot but think , played a notable part among the charms which the place had in the eyes of Catullus . No one can attentively read his poems without observing the remarkable contrast between the tone of his allusions ...
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