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... mind ' has no use for such vain toys as Mirth can offer to delude the childish or unmanly mind . A fixed mind , animus fixus , is what Dido claimed for her virtuous self when she nevertheless fell for Aeneas , at the opening of Book IV ...
... mind ' has no use for such vain toys as Mirth can offer to delude the childish or unmanly mind . A fixed mind , animus fixus , is what Dido claimed for her virtuous self when she nevertheless fell for Aeneas , at the opening of Book IV ...
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... mind with useful knowledge , not to deploy in abstract scholastic exercises . His ideas of a practical , liberal ... mind was saturated ; some exercise or perhaps music around lunchtime , to set the mind back in receptive frame ; more ...
... mind with useful knowledge , not to deploy in abstract scholastic exercises . His ideas of a practical , liberal ... mind was saturated ; some exercise or perhaps music around lunchtime , to set the mind back in receptive frame ; more ...
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... mind as measures of the great poems of his later life . ' These abilities ' , he says ( of being a true poet ) , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired guift of God rarely bestow'd , but yet to some ( though most abuse ) in every ...
... mind as measures of the great poems of his later life . ' These abilities ' , he says ( of being a true poet ) , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired guift of God rarely bestow'd , but yet to some ( though most abuse ) in every ...
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the Vacation Exercise and Early Latin | 1 |
the Nativity Ode | 19 |
Italy Politics and the Voice of Authority | 59 |
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