| 单词 | Augustan |
| 例句 | Ovid, who lived in the Augustan Age, tells his life in detail and so does Apollodorus, in the first or second century A.D. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from the history that Gibbon narrates — one that should be of interest to Americans right now, I’d say — I’m just knocked over by the prose: those fabulous, architectural, Augustan sentences are dazzling. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z British critics in the nineteenth century followed suit, celebrating Shakespeare’s capacious characters and poetic imagination instead of worrying whether his plots fit Aristotelian unities or if his style matched Augustan decorum. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z There is a bizarre impersonality to these Augustan tomes that see a show at the Grand Palais as more significant than a lover's death. Gossip, love and tragedy: what every artist's catalogue needs 2010-08-09T13:23:00Z These Latin authors were the models for the so-called "Augustan" writers of 18th-century Britain in whose style Hughes himself wrote. Robert Hughes: the greatest art critic of our time 2012-08-07T12:06:48Z Mr. Vidal was, at the end of his life, an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z If you have a taste for his hauntingly enigmatic stories, in which the surreal, the Kafkesque and the undecidable are related in elegant Augustan prose, you will be eager to acquire everything he ever wrote. Summer’s hidden gems, selected by Michael Dirda 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He published academic studies of Johnson, and of the Augustan era of English literature. Paul Fussell 2012-05-24T17:27:46Z Vitruvius was the builder who turned Mark Antony's capital into marbled Augustan Rome. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z In the 18th century — the so-called Augustan age of English literature — Virgil was, if anything, even more deeply cherished. Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Today all that remains of Caesarea’s Augustan temple is the podium, a featureless platform that I missed altogether as I strolled from the harbor to the hippodrome. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It seemed so easy and natural to go along with them, watching and listening as the whole story unfolds through Safta's memories and Augustan's drawings. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z The Augustan age aspired to "clarity, eloquence, and expressions of logical justification". Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges – review 2013-05-30T11:00:01Z During the Augustan period, each legion consisted of 5,400 infantry and 120 cavalry, along with hundreds of specialists such as engineers, arrow-makers, and blacksmiths who allowed the legion to operate independently while traveling. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Pope’s Homer read like Homer when it was published, although the idea of reading ancient Greek verse in strict rhymed couplets seems to us a brilliant Augustan period piece. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession, a German-speaking Protestant group, said Tuesday that marriage was clearly defined in civil law. Romanian German church slams marriage referendum 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z It was commonplace in Augustan England of the 18th century to refer to Virgil, Ovid, or Plutarch. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 83 – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1776-1788) 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Under the Sassanian kings, Persia had become an active centre of intellectual life, reaching the climax of its Augustan age in the reign of Chosroes. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The eulogy of Leo with which Erasmus ends indicates the hopes then entertained of a new Augustan age of peace and reconciliation. Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z Hermesianax, whose style is characterized by alternate force and tenderness, was exceedingly popular in his own times, and was highly esteemed even in the Augustan period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z It would be unbecoming to speak disparagingly of the poets of the present age; but no one, I believe, has ventured to consider them as superior to the noble spirits of our Augustan age. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The house of M�cenas, the great patron of the poets of the Augustan age, probably occupied a site above the Carin�, where the baths of Titus afterwards were. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Most historians believe that this speech represents the opinions, not of the Augustan age, but of the age of the writer who relates it.753.On the hostility of Vespasian to philosophers, see Xiphilin, lxvi. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z He even withstood the battering-ram on the day of the publication of his "Augustan Poets." An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z He is also, like all the other poets of the Augustan age, a poet in whose composition culture and criticism were as conspicuous elements as spontaneous inspiration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z In the Augustan age of English prose, we remember, appeared the easy, graceful style of Steele and Addison, so admirably suited to the pleasant narrative form of essay which they introduced. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z While C�sar's chambers, and the Augustan halls, Grovel on earth in indistinct decay. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Odes on the Augustan reformation, 6, 7. his own feelings on religion, 10, 28. on superstition, 17. his "conversion," 18. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Aphorism and declamation have, indeed, rarely been absent from the tragedy of any period or nation, but they were especially delightful to the taste of the Augustan era. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The whole poetry of the Augustan age was based on the works of older poets, Roman as well as Greek. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The poetry of the Augustan age and of that immediately preceding it is deeply pervaded by this new sentiment. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Of the two main Augustan traditions in satire—the "fine raillery" that Dryden perfected and the rough satire that reached back to Donne, Cleveland, and Oldham—Tutchin belongs to the latter. Selected Poems (1685-1700) 2011-12-27T03:00:09.253Z In his youth, he had loved their sharp, elusive harmonies, and when he attained years of composition, could never free his own lyricks from extravagance so acquired, however assiduously he attempted to follow Augustan models. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z In tragedy the division between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is less marked than that which distinguishes in general the literatures of the Restoration and the Augustan eras. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z It was the station of the second Augustan legion, under the count of the Saxon coast, a person of high distinction. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z With infinitely less accomplishment and less variety, the older writers show signs of a robuster life and a more vigorous understanding than some at least of those who adorn the Augustan era. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z A few of the lines have the moving quality of Augustan satire at its best: Did e'er the old or new Philosophy, Make a Man splendid live, or wealthy die? Selected Poems (1685-1700) 2011-12-27T03:00:09.253Z Augustan Age, 31 b. c. to a. d. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z He now “plunged into the ocean of the Augustan history,” and “with pen almost always in hand,” pored over all the original records, Greek and Latin, between Trajan and the last of the Western Caesars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Seven back numbers of Augustan Reprints which have been listed as out-of-print now are available in limited supply: 15,19,41,77-78,79,81. The Female Wits 2011-09-28T02:00:23.247Z The elegiac poets of the Augustan age, making pleasure the chief pursuit of their lives, have made the more sensuous phases of this passion the predominant motive of their poetry. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In a celebrated passage in his Metamorphoses, Ovid puts into the mouth of the philosopher Pythagoras an account of what was probably regarded as the Pythagorean view of the subject in the Augustan age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Cæsar was not surpassed, even by the writers of the Augustan age, in clearness and beauty of style. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Yet it is hard to see what is wanting to the poem to distinguish it from the literature of polite society in the Augustan ages. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z In the Augustan age the feriae stativae were very numerous, as may be seen from what we possess of the Fasti of Ovid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z They were placed in different circumstances, and lived in a different manner from either the poets who adorned the last days of the Republic or those who flourished in the Augustan age. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Transcriber's Notes: Two sets of page numbers are present, one each from the Augustan Reprint numbering and that of the original. The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry 2011-06-17T02:00:16.870Z Although himself an indifferent poet, he was still a patron of literature and literary men; Virgil, Horace, Ovid and other celebrated writers of the Augustan age, were among his most intimate friends. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z The Periclean age of Greece, the Augustan age of Rome, the “great age” of France, that of Louis XIV., supplied Joubert with most of the books that fed his mind. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z We have, thus, in Trapp's Aeneid a translation of Virgil that was probably read by many of the important figures of the English Augustan cultural milieu. The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) 2011-05-19T02:00:05.527Z But while the poets of the Augustan age owed the charm of their existence to the patronage of the great, the earlier poets depended for their success mainly on popular favour. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Contact information and pricing for the Augustan Reprint Society is presented solely as content original to the physical volume from which this transcription was produced and should not be considered current or reliable. The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry 2011-06-17T02:00:16.870Z Dryden's death in 1700 marks the commencement of the so-called Augustan Age in English literature. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The pulpit eloquence of the Augustan age of France was distinctly “classic,” and not at all “romantic,” in style. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z That much of the Augustan Latin is derived from the Greek, is true. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The accomplished art of the last age of the Republic and of the Augustan age owed much of its national and moral flourishment to the vigorous life of this early literature. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The typical Roman mill of the Augustan age may be seen at Pompeii. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The style, too, is that of the Roman republic, not of the Augustan age. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z But it was under Louis XIII., or rather under that monarch’s great minister, Cardinal Richelieu, that the rich and splendid Augustan age of French literature was truly prepared. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z They long, however, continued popular in Rome, and were read by the youths in schools even during the Augustan age of poetry. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The substance and thought of Ennius, Lucretius, and Catullus, even when they reproduce Greek materials, appear to be more vivified by their own feeling than the substance and thought of the Augustan poets. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Augustan list of proscriptions and the filthy epigram against Fulvia, are not the productions of a divinity. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z James had known and been attracted to Augustan England, the England of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z A while ago this used to be spoken of as the Golden or Augustan age of English literature. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Dissatisfaction with the limitations of “Augustan” poetry was similarly responsible for the revived interest in Shakespeare and Chaucer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Catullus and the elegiac poets of the Augustan age abandoned themselves to the passionate enjoyment of their lives, under little restraint either from the pride or the virtue of their forefathers. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter was reprinted with an introduction by Louis Landa by the Augustan Reprint Society, no. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z The Augustan period of poetry in Holland was even more blank and dull than in the other countries of northern Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Memoirs began to be largely written at the close of the Augustan age, but these, like the Life of Alexander the Great, by Q. Curtius Rufus, were rather historical than biographical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The great champion of the Augustan masters was himself the architect of revolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The word Vates, till the Augustan age, meant not a poet but a soothsayer. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The latter have done more towards explaining the Classicks than had been done before from the Augustan Age to their own. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z A study of the work of the Augustan wits would be a useful apprenticeship. Marks & Spencer says it with a (bad) poem 2010-12-07T09:59:00Z He is no relation to Bobby Jones, the former Augusta National caddie and employee who moonlighted as a saxophonist for his fellow Augustan James Brown and other R&B luminaries. Expansion Plan Threatens Augusta Municipal 2010-04-10T17:14:00Z Of the great Roman writers Horace had least sympathy with him; yet he testifies to the high esteem in which he was held during the Augustan age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The manners represented in the poem are a medley of the Augustan and of the Homeric age, as seen in vague proportions, through the mists of antiquarian learning. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Exeter at one time went by the name of Augusta, which was due to its having been occupied by the Second Augustan Legion, whose commander, Vespasian, included the city under his conquest Britannia Prima. Cathedral Cities of England He seems to have hesitated long as to the form which the celebration of the glories of the Augustan Age should take. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In spite of the Augustan revival, the calm, if rather formal, sanity of old Roman religion had lost its power over cultivated minds. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It is distinct, while never quite cut off, from the middle age preceding, and also from the classical or “Augustan” age that followed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z He is coarser in his language than any of the older poets, and than any of those of the Augustan age. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Although their walls from the Augustan age were built in concrete, arches of brick were always turned over their entrance doorways, sometimes in two or three rings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" This episode not only adds nothing to its representative character, but it suggests fancies and associations utterly alien from the Italy of the Augustan Age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Private opinion after the Augustan revival greatly varied as to matters of faith. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He was a patron of literature; Virgil and Horace were befriended by him, and their works and those of their contemporaries are the glory of the Augustan Age. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis In the Augustan age, if there was as much immorality as in the age preceding it, there was more outward decorum. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Roman orders in the Augustan age had reached their culminating development. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Patriotism in the Augustan Age was as much an Italian as a Roman sentiment. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil No part of the Augustan revival was perhaps so successful. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Hardouin allows that the Georgics, Horace's Satires and Epistles, and the whole of Cicero, are genuine: we have a standard then in these undisputed compositions of the Augustan age. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent What a figure will this our Augustan age make! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The sixteenth century was indeed to Spain what the Augustan Age was to Rome, and what the Elizabethan and Victorian ages were to England, and for some of the same reasons. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Immediately afterwards we come upon one of the three great passages of the poem in which the action is prophetically advanced into the Augustan Age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil And the Augustan age had, in a single generation, performed miracles, under Greek inspiration, in moulding the Latin tongue to be the apt vehicle of every mood of poetic feeling. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Now could the thirteenth century simulate Augustan writers better than the Augustan could simulate such writers as those of the thirteenth? An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent His conception of life is more generous and direct, hence truer and gentler, than that of the Augustan age. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 His character was hardening, and he deliberately adopted the most barbarous expedients for converting the Augustan Poles to his views. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" The pride of empire is thus the most prominent mode in which the national sentiment asserts itself in the poetry of the Augustan Age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Great ladies of the Augustan court, even the empress herself, had their philosophic directors,483 and the fashion perhaps became still more general under M. Aurelius. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius This is an argument parallel in its character to that by which we ascribe the classics to the Augustan age. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Geneva was at that time enjoying what has been termed its Augustan age. Maria Edgeworth Strabo's description of the delta is so inapplicable to its present configuration, as to attest a complete alteration in the physical features of the country since the Augustan age. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Yet they help to make us realise the relation in which the Rome and Italy of the Augustan Age stood to the rest of the world and to the culture of the past. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The peace and constructive progress of the Augustan era, in which Christianity was founded, have often been cited as factors contributing to its evolution and spread. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries That evening, as he was battling with the platitudes of that Augustan bore who is called the Bard of Mantua, presumably because he was born in Andes—Weldon came in, smelling of tobacco and drink. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel The place was one of the great fortresses of Roman Britain, and constituted the station of the Second Augustan Legion in the first century A.D. The Towns of Roman Britain C�sar and Cicero, Virgil and Octavius, all trod the pavement of the capitol together, and lent their blended glory to immortalize the Augustan age. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. This further development was given to it by the Augustan poets, but not without some loss of native force and purity of idiom. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil You yourself have no such prejudice against the Augustan age of English literature. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 And when it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan company. The Bible Story If we except the brief period of the Augustan age, the Greek literature of the principate stands both in quantity and quality above the Latin. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Rome had her Augustan age, an era of poets, philosophers, soldiers, statesmen, and orators. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. It was only in the Augustan Age, or during the few years preceding it, that the taste of the Romans was sufficiently educated to appreciate the perfect art of the Greeks. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He uses Juvenal, Tacitus, Suetonius, and the Augustan Histories to support his position, although they form part of the annals of a people among whom "p�derasty was accepted and admitted." A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists These also had names, and reference is made to the Italian and the Augustan cohorts. The Bible Story Claudian found his inspiration in Ovid and reawakened the charm of Augustan poetry. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. To this law—an Augustan hypocrisy—only a technical attention was paid. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Latin literature in the Augustan Age drew its representatives not only from a wider district than the preceding age, but also from a different social class. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil During the later Augustan period the only literary critic of importance was the elder Seneca. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" This emperor was possessed with an exaggerated idea of the divinity that was inherent in the Augustan race. Roman Women We know that among the Romans, about the Augustan age, especially, the condition of their slaves was much more deplorable, than that of the blacks on the continent of America. Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia It was the Augustan era of Napoleon's life in all that concerned the fine arts; for literature, unhappily, did not flourish at any time beneath his reign. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The golden perfection of the Augustan style gave place to the forced rhetoric and the sensational extravagance of the Neronian age and to the soberer but tamer imitations of the Flavian era. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The cross was adored by the ancient Greeks and Romans for centuries before the Augustan era. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning But the banquet hall of the Augustan house was not equipped in so costly a fashion; there was still cherished some remembrance of the ancient Sabine simplicity. Roman Women Since the Augustan age of French literature, since Corneille and Racine, a really fine tragedy on a classic subject had been unknown, and the romantic reaction was then at its height. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. Up to a certain extent he had thoroughly sympathised with the Romantic movement, and he never was an advocate for the Augustan period in English. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) In its inner inspiration, as well as its outward expression, the Augustan poetry was the maturest development of the national mind. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But, while the Renaissance aimed at reproducing the Augustan age of Rome, the new humanism found its golden age in Athens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Your bee, now," says I, "is a really classical insect, and breathes of Virgil and the Augustan age—and then she is a domestic, tranquil, placid creature. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The name Seres indeed is familiar to the Latin poets of the Augustan age, but always in a vague way, and usually with a general reference to Central Asia and the farther East. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" When at last the democracy conquered, the Augustan monarchy, by which they perpetuated their triumph, was moderate in comparison with the licensed tyranny of the aristocratic chief. The History of Freedom The Augustan Age was characterised by a careful study and application of the principles of art, as well as by an elaborate culture. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Terms of frequent occurrence in historical works, especially those derived from proper names, such as Shemitic, Augustan, Gregorian. Noah Webster American Men of Letters It has flourished, naturally, in, periods of tolerance rather than in strenuous times, and has been at its best, therefore, in the Caroline, Augustan, and Victorian ages of our literature. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects You should disdain and I despair With quite the true Augustan air; But ... could I love you more or less,— ‘In teacup times’?” Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers The literature of this period is immortal through the genius of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, and has made the name "Augustan" an universal synonyme for classic elegance and urbanity. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 He was never married, nor is there any record in connexion with him of any of those temporary liaisons which the other poets of the Augustan Age formed and celebrated in their verse. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The same list should be present in any Augustan Reprint from a later year. Democritus Platonissans The sculptures of the Fourth Dynasty, the earliest extant, and which must be assigned to the date of about 3500 b.c., are almost as perfect as those of her Augustan age, two thousand years later. Bible Romances First Series Not meeting with the preferment he expected, he made a voyage to Italy, at that time little inferior to the Augustan age for learning. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Thus in our own literary history, Queen Anne's reign is known as the "Augustan Age" on account of the brilliant wits and poets then at their zenith. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 But his imagination was moved by all those influences which, in the Augustan Age, were giving a new impulse and direction to human affairs. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In the Augustan age of Freethought, no British writer achieved more renown, or performed greater services to Biblical criticism, than John Toland. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Actually it provides material for little more than an extended footnote on the history of criticism in the Augustan period. The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry The Augustan Age was comical enough, if we may trust some of Horace’s satires. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue "Bards and Minstrels, and The Augustan Age," by Beryl Mappin, is the second of a series of articles on English literature and its classical foundations. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The efforts of the generation preceding the Augustan Age to attain to perfection in form and style received their fulfilment in the work accomplished by Virgil and Horace. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Was it strange that no Roman province ever produced so long a list of historians, poets, philosophers, as did Southern Spain after the Augustan conquest? A Short History of Spain What would the great Augustan have thought of verse in which God the Father is likened to a cosmic Crofter? Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Ovid, still a young man, was the only considerable poet whom he left behind; and with his death the Augustan age of Latin poetry ends. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The Roman method of pronouncing Latin has now received the approval of all Latinists of authority in Europe and America, as giving substantially the pronunciation employed by educated Romans of the Augustan Age. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method Virgil is the earliest in time and much the most important in rank among the extant poets of the Augustan Age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He marks the highest point which the enlarged and enriched prose of the Augustan age reached just before it began to fall into decadence. . . . Helps to Latin Translation at Sight The writing of the Latin underwent considerable alterations between the era of the Decemviri and the Augustan age, corresponding, no doubt, to the changes which had taken place during that interval in speaking the Latin. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The Jewish nation had an existence prior to the Augustan or Athenian age, and was far ahead of either in civilization and morality. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 This became quite general in the Augustan Age. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method The Augustan Age was pre-eminently an age of culture, and Virgil was pre-eminently the most cultivated man belonging to the age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In contrast, the great and wonderful things of the Augustan city stand out in high relief, above the varied crowd that fills the streets, with all the dignity that centuries of power can lend. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome To this famous resort of the Revolutionary and Augustan ages I lately betook myself for my stake, in the hope that mine host might be found redolent of the traditional glory of his house. Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Horace’s chief model is Lucilius, whom he wished to adapt to the Augustan age. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors In the so-called Augustan age of poetry, the Daisy could not hope to attract any attention. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare But neither Goethe nor Schiller, Byron nor Scott, Shelley nor Keats were at all indebted, in thought, sentiment, or expression, to the poets of the Augustan Age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It is impossible to conceive of the Augustan age without Horace, nor to imagine a possible Horace without Greece and Greek influence. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome The enthusiasm of the Augustan Age for the good old times was never much more than affectation. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Boileau also thought it probable, that, in the best modern Latin, a writer of the Augustan age would have detected ludicrous improprieties. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) The Augustan Age shows Rome at her best, and a study of the educational system at that time will be most fruitful for the student of pedagogy. History of Education A similar superiority in this respect may be claimed for the Augustan poetry over that of the Age of Louis XIV. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In the Augustan revival membership in the College of the Arval Brothers was sought by distinguished citizens. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Is an Augustan age a less precise and potential phrase for a golden age of the arts, than a Saturnian age for the same of the virtues? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 This is the golden age of the British Empire, its Augustan age. The American Empire The Epilogue to the Satires becomes an epilogue to all Augustan satire and the conclusion of The New Dunciad declares the death of its own tradition. The Methodist A Poem The whole learning, fancy, and sentiment of the Alexandrians seem to have been absorbed and made their own by the Augustan poets. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil To what extent did the literature of ancient Greece, of Rome, of modern Italy, of France, of Spain, of Germany find its way into a private library in England’s Augustan Age? The Library of William Congreve The urban attitude of mind which caused the evil, and now makes it difficult to interest public opinion in the remedy, is not new; it pervades the literature of the Augustan age. The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer If this is so, a series like the Augustan Reprints necessarily deals with literary failures. A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. In The Methodist, however, he participates in a short-lived revolt against the tyranny of Augustan satire and shows considerable evidence of a talent that might have created a new style for formal verse satire. The Methodist A Poem The age of the Augustan poets may accordingly be regarded as extending from about the death of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. to the death of Ovid 17 A.D. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The great libraries of the Augustan age, on the other hand, seem, so far as we can judge, to have been used as meeting-places and reading-rooms for learned and unlearned alike. The Care of Books The composition of treatises of consolation intended to accustom men to contemplate death without terror was one of the favourite exercises of the philosophers in the Augustan and in the subsequent periods of Pagan Rome. The Map of Life Conduct and Character Stage, scenery, appointments, audience, critic, music, actors, and authors, all now bore witness to and adorned, as they were in fact the most elaborate product of, an Augustan age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 In his later works, Pope took Augustan satire about as far as it could go. The Methodist A Poem The Augustan poets left to their successors, what they had not themselves received, the fatal legacy of an established poetical diction. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He encouraged literature, and we have the "Augustan" age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Or he delineates, on a full canvas and with the modernity which is amongst his most endearing characteristics, the "Bore" of the Augustan age. Horace This delightful work pronounces with unfaltering dogmatism judgments founded on canons of criticism which were accepted in the then expiring age of Augustan literature. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration Churchill and Robert Lloyd are explicit in their wish to break from Augustan style. The Methodist A Poem The literature of the Augustan Age has often been compared with that of England in the first half of the eighteenth century. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The painter would give it immortality, and the sculptor monuments more enduring than the pyramids, statues more godlike and sublime than ever crowned Grecian Parthenon, or adorned with Parian marble the temples of Augustan Rome. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The social life of London and the Court now took on, by comparison with the troubled past, an almost Augustan phase. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 In his youth he had been chaplain in the family of Lord Marchmont—had seen Pope—and could talk familiarly of many characters who had survived the Augustan age of Queen Anne. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) In being chatty, fluid, iconoclastic, spontaneous-sounding, self-revealing, his satire might eventually prove capable of dealing with the problems that the Augustan satirists had predicted but did not have to deal with so directly. The Methodist A Poem The almost exclusive devotion to poetry on the part of the meanest as well as the greatest writers of the Augustan Age seems to demand some explanation. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil A bumper to the jolly Dean Who, in "Augustan" times, Made merriment for fat and lean In jocund prose and rhymes! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) As to this we are very imperfectly informed,—we have no correspondence of this age, as of the last, and the details of life in the Augustan city are not preserved in abundance. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus This is a portion—a few inches—taken from the famous Peutinger Table, a long strip map on parchment, of the fourth century, derived from Augustan maps according to the measurements of Cæsar Augustus Agrippa. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole It must recognize that there is little hope in going back to lofty Augustan ideals. The Methodist A Poem The Augustan Age impressed itself on the minds of those living under it as an era not of destruction but of restoration. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But it was under Louis XIII., or rather under that monarch's great minister, Cardinal Richelieu, that the rich and splendid Augustan age of French literature was truly prepared. Classic French Course in English All this is effected with wonderful skill by making Aeneas perform with detailed carefulness the Roman ritual of the Parentalia as it was known to the 418Romans of the Augustan age. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus But a new stage of intellectual progress began with the Augustan age, as it did with our own Elizabethan era. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society He uses mostly end-stop couplets, parallel constructions, Augustan diction and similes. The Methodist A Poem Though the germ of a rude rustic poetry existed in the ‘Fescennine verses,’ no connexion can be traced between them and the highly artificial pastoral of the Augustan Age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The pulpit eloquence of the Augustan age of France was distinctly "classic," and not at all "romantic," in style. Classic French Course in English Sallust, Livy, and other Roman prose writers have said much the same thing514; the Aeneid as a whole might be adduced as evidence, and in a less degree all the poets of the Augustan age. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus The eighteenth century may be regarded as the Augustan age so far as book-hunting in London is concerned. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting With the younger Drevet closed the classical period of portraits in engraving, as just before had closed the Augustan age of French literature. The Best Portraits in Engraving The year of his birth is the first year of that decade in which many of the men most eminent in the Augustan era were born. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The Augustan translator strove to give his work "elegance, energy, and fire," and despite the false elegance, we can still feel something of true energy and fire as we read the Iliad and the Odyssey. Early Theories of Translation If, then, the Augustan revival was not a mere sham, but had its measure of real success, how are we to account for this? The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus His massive neck upbore a head of Augustan beauty, lighted by eyes that alternately blazed with the pride and resolution of a Cid and softened with the musings of a Manrique. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier In the throes of hierarchical government, torn by three irreconcilable religions,—polytheistic, Julian or Augustan, and Christian,—she had no strength to spare for these outsiders when her own life was at stake. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The poets of the Augustan Age selected some Greek prototype whose manner they professed to reproduce and make the vehicle for the expression of their own thought and experience. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The growing dignity of this department of literature and the Augustan fondness for literary criticism combined to produce a large body of comment on methods of translation. Early Theories of Translation In theory the age of Anne is still the Augustan age to us; but in theory only, and only to a certain extent. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation At no period of the history of England was the union with Rome closer, and at no time, not even in the Augustan Age of English literature was there a larger infusion of Latin ideas. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance It is they who have razed Augustan temples, destroyed holy relics, and slain Augustan priests—they, and not the Saxons. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The affinity between the Augustan Age and those of Pericles and Lorenzo is more superficial than real. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In the Augustan age, when literature in Rome reached its highest level, the literary style of Celsus was fit to be classed with that of the great writers of his time. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Ought the Evangelic Lutheran Church, endeavor to be united with any religious denomination, whose doctrines are contrary to the Augustan Confession of faith? American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod The era of Vikramâditya and the Golden Age of Sanskrit literature, bearing a date almost simultaneous with the Augustan period at the West, are postponed by him to a later century. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge The Augustan forum, built by Augustus Cæsar, containing statues in the two porticos, on each side of the main building. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Nor can it be denied that the relation of the Augustan poets to the Emperor was somewhat parallel to that of the scholars and poets of Alexandria to the Ptolemies. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The population of the city of Rome at the beginning of the Augustan age was not less than half a million of people, and probably exceeded this number. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine The treatise appended to the Report of 1827 declared: It is necessary to correct the wrong opinion that Lutheran ministers are at liberty to deviate from the Augustan Confession whereinsoever they conceive it as erroneous. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod Can you tell me any passages in the Romans of the Augustan age, or rather before, telling of decline in the people’s morals, hardihood, especially as regards the youth of the country? Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Yet even Jerusalem doth seem to be getting Romanized, with her hippodrome and her trophies of Augustan victories. The Coming of the King The age of Queen Anne and of the first George, again, has been called the Augustan Age of English literature. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil London, for permission to reproduce the pamphlet herewith in the Augustan Reprints. Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) Independently of Synods, the Augustan Confession of Faith is the point of union of all Lutherans, and by which they are distinguished from other denominations. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod This custom of sending letters on tablets survived for some centuries after Augustan times. Illuminated Manuscripts But glass mosaics were already in use in the Augustan age, and the use of gilt tesserae goes back to the 1st or 2nd century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" A further parallel might be drawn between the material conditions of the Augustan Age and those of the Age of Louis XIV. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The theological writers of the Augustan age are also fairly represented in the Library. Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 The ministers of the North Carolina Synod call themselves Lutherans, but as we believe that they propagate doctrines contrary to the Augustan Confession, we considered it necessary to require of them to stand an examination. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod When the Roman Empire reached the highest pinnacle of literary fame and political power in the reign of Augustus Caesar, the period was called the Augustan age. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Next to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, he was the most important critic and rhetorician of the Augustan age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" I have reserved for this later volume the examination of the minor poems which have been attributed to Virgil, most of which belong to the Augustan Age. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Between Lucilius and the poets of the Augustan age lived Lucretius and Catullus, two of the greatest—perhaps the greatest—of all the Roman poets. A Smaller History of Rome For it is known that Lutheran ministers are pledged to maintain the Augustan Confession. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod There was a period that existed eminently in the Jackson administration and a few years after that might be called the Augustan age of Congress. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective So far as the Scottish metropolis was concerned, the first quarter of the present century was the Augustan age of literature. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities This feeling of the pride of empire asserts itself much more strongly in the poets of the Augustan Age than in the writers of the preceding generation. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Among the poets of the Augustan age Virgil and Horace stand forth pre-eminent. A Smaller History of Rome The members of the Lutheran Church at the time of their confirmation declare that they believe the doctrines as held by the same, and every minister is solemnly pledged to maintain the Augustan Confession. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod It's Augustan, not Cistercian, like Beaulieu; and it's august, as well; very noble; finer to see than many a cathedral. Set in Silver For the rest, the Augustan Muse was an utter stranger to the fighting inspiration. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys There are some circumstances which made the patronage of the earlier half of the Augustan Age more favourable to letters than that of other periods in which the same influence has been exercised. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The language was no longer pure, and neither prose nor poetry retained the harmony and elegance of the Augustan age. A Smaller History of Rome That Luther was a man, and therefore liable to err, is not denied; but that he did err with regard to the doctrines contained in the Augustan Confession remains to be proven. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod It was at a time known in history as the Augustan Age, when Rome was the great world-power. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation There are successive fashions and schools of literature and literary principle—an Attic, an Alexandrian, an Augustan, a Renaissance Italian, an Elizabethan, a Louis Quatorze, a Queen Anne, a nineteenth century Romantic. Platform Monologues The strange word vociferari, which he uses so often, and which the Romans of the Augustan age almost dropped from their poetic vocabulary, seems exactly made to suit his utterance. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The two finest kinds of papyrus were named the Augustan and the Livian. A Smaller History of Rome It is necessary to correct a wrong opinion, which is, that Lutheran ministers are at liberty to deviate from the Augustan Confession whereinsoever they conceive it as erroneous. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod The connection between Sirius and the hot weather was one of the conventions of poetry which the Augustan writers had borrowed from the Greeks. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor We could scarcely expect a man who lived under Nero, and after the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius to write with the mild placidity of the Augustan poet. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Thus was the idea of the "eternal city" born, and it is no mere coincidence that the first instance of this phrase in literature occurs in Tibullus, a poet of the Augustan age. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome The Augustan Age, indeed, forms one of the most remarkable periods in the history of the human intellect. A Smaller History of Rome That the Bible is the proper rule of doctrine must be confessed; yet the question is, Does the Augustan Confession contradict it? American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod Once more, the writer of the Treatise of the Sublime quotes no authors later than the Augustan period. On the Sublime He wrote one hundred and thirty plays, of which thirty are extant, and show an orthography very different from that of the Augustan age. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour But this secular celebration of Augustus is interesting aside from the relation of Juppiter and Apollo, for it affords another illustration of the skilful combination of new and old in the Augustan reorganisation. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome I began hesitatingly, with some vague generalities about the Augustan age of German literature, referring to the three well-known names of Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe. Illusions A Psychological Study Remarks," appended to the Second Article of the constitution, adopted 1828, the necessity of symbols in explained as follows: "Now the question may be put, Is not the Augustan Confession a human composition? American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod Letters — Imitation of the Greeks — The Augustan Age — Orators and rhetoricians — Importance of the Latin literature and language — Arts — Sculpture and painting — Architecture — Characteristics of Roman architecture — Rome and its monuments. History Of Ancient Civilization In the middle of the eighteenth century, the big men, Swift, Pope, and Addison, having passed away, the Augustan age of English literature seemed exhausted. Masques & Phases Just so handily it may serve us to talk about 'Renaissance poets,' 'the Elizabethans,' 'the Augustan age.' On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 He is however hailed as the legitimate restorer of that taste in binding, which delighted the purchasers in the Augustan age of book-collecting. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two Weep yourselves, if you would have your readers weep, said the shrewd old Roman poet to the shallow poetasters of his Augustan day. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents But this Augustan Age was preceded and followed by two centuries that perhaps equalled it. History Of Ancient Civilization Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, was the shining literary light of the so-called Augustan reign of Queen Anne, the poetry of which was distinguished by the highest degree of polish and elegance. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Scott praised the Augustan writers as warmly as Jeffrey did, but he was more hospitable to the newer literary impulse. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Of those manifold, kaleidoscopically-varied types of human nature which in the Augustan age flocked to Rome as the centre of the known world, he was a keen and a close observer. English Satires The temperature, too, had cooled; not quite down to the Augustan grade, yet to a point considerably below the fever heat registered by the emotional thermometer of the late Georgian era. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Naturally enough, his highest praise—even where poetry is in question—is reserved for those solid Augustan virtues of "judgment" and "good sense." 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation Go a little farther back, and consider the fate of the distinguished literary persons who were famous during the period which affected writers call the Augustan era of our literature. Side Lights Literature reached its culmination in this epoch, especially in the great poets of the Augustan Age. New Latin Grammar The Editors of the Augustan Reprint Society wish to thank the following people for assistance rendered during the first year of the society's publication: Mr. Warner G. Rice, Director of the Library, University of Michigan. Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) A farmer of the Augustan Age Perused in Virgil's golden page, The story of the secret won From Proteus by Cyrene's son— How the dank sea-god showed the swain Means to restore his hives again. Songs from Books It had not the Elizabethan swagger; it had not the Restoration cynicism; it had not the Augustan urbanity. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Goss speaks of Young as a "connecting link between this group of poets and their predecessors of the Augustan age." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Blackwell Broad Street Oxford, England * * * * * Please enroll me as a member of the Augustan Reprint Society. A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) It was the fashion in Horace's time to prefer the writers of the old school to the new race that gave so much lustre to the Augustan age. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements The editors of the Augustan Reprints are to be commended for their decision to give it a place in their valuable series. Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) As such it well deserves a place in the Augustan Reprints series on wit. The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country The old-fashioned Italian or French or Dutch garden—as it was variously called—antedated the Augustan era, which simply inherited it from the seventeenth century. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Bessel, president of the Augustan Synod, Minneapolis, said that the synod was shocked at the German barbarism in Denmark, but was happy about Sweden's firm stand in offering refuge to the persecuted Jews. The Grey Book One branch of the little river which encompasses Assisi is the Clitumnus, the delight of philosophers and poets in the Augustan age. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 Let there be talk of tyrants, and plots arising, with danger of assassination,—and what was to become of re-established law, order, and the Augustan Peace? The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 And as in the case of other branches of literary theory in the Augustan period, the original expression of the organized doctrine was French. Prefaces to Fiction They had certain popular mannerisms, but none of the conventional figures of speech or rhetorical artifices like personifications, periphrasis, antithesis, and climax so dear to the Augustan heart. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Aristotle speaks of Mimetic dances three hundred years before the Augustan era. A History of Pantomime He affected not Augustan niceties, but his expressions are free and appropriate. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I He was a mighty builder and splendid adorner of cities; all that remained unsystematized in the Augustan system, he reduced to perfect system and order. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 But Horace with all his bonhommie, his common sense, and his acuteness, is but the representative of a narrow Roman coterie of the Augustan age. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 "The Castle of Indolence" had the romantic iridescence, the "atmosphere" which is lacking to the sharp contours of Augustan verse. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Lucian and the other writers of the Augustan era, have handed down to us sufficient information to show how Pantomime in Rome was so highly thought of. A History of Pantomime Before this epoch was the Augustan age, much too well satisfied with its own literature to concern itself with an unfashionable past. The Rowley Poems Thus the heyday of Augustan Rome coincides with the darkest penumbra of China. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Let us compare a landscape painted by Pope in his Windsor forest, with the lines just quoted, and we shall see the difference between the art of Cowper, and that of the Augustan age. Cowper Let us pause upon the phrase, for it is a key to the whole attitude of the Augustan mind toward "our old tragick poet." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Horace was indignant that, in the Augustan age, the meed of praise was bestowed only upon what was ancient: the architects of this nation of recent date seem under the influence of an opposite apprehension. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 Her mother knew the "British Poets" and all the literature of Queen Anne's Augustan age. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 But the high creative forces were not flowing in that age; and we need not blame Augustan patronage for the limitations of Augustan literature. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Augustan Age, the time in the history of a nation when its literature is at its best. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge But circumstances or periphrasis was the capital means by which the Augustan poet avoided precision and attained nobility of style. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The amphitheatre was enlarged and renewed in its present form, villas of luxury bordered the coasts as in Campania, and coins were struck in the Augustan name. Heart of Man What do I find in "The Poetic Art," by Boileau, the great authority of the Augustan age,--rhetoric, beautiful verses, full of excellent counsel? Delsarte System of Oratory The Augustan system implied no tyranny; not even absolutism:—it was through no fault of its founder, or of his successor, that the constitutional side of it broke down. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 You have no idea how difficult it is to buy the works of any Latin authors except those of the Augustan age. A Mere Accident He flourished in wig and embroidery, player, poet, and manager, during the Augustan age of Queen Anne, somewhat earlier and somewhat later. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield In diction worthy of the Augustan age, he presents us with no images that are not familiar to his countrymen. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays The true Augustan age of literature can never exist until works shall be as accurate, in their typography, as a "log book," and as sententious, in their matter, as a "watch-bill." The Red Rover They endeavoured to form their poetry on the lines laid down in the critical writing of the original Augustan age as elaborated and interpreted in Renaissance criticism. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge But with the Augustan age we are not here concerned. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero Political changes were not the sole cause of the rapid degeneracy in letters that followed the Augustan era of Rome. Famous Reviews The wealth of Lydia, the arts of the Greeks, the splendor of the Augustan age, existed only in books and ruins, which were equally obscure in the eyes of the Scythian conquerors. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 That eminent lawyer of the Augustan age divided the year between the city and country, between business and composition; and four hundred books are enumerated as the fruit of his retirement. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 This period of Dryden and Pope on which we are now entering sometimes styled itself the Augustan Age of English poetry. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Homer, Hesiod, and Menander were the favourite authors studied; only later on, after the full bloom of the Augustan literature, did Latin poets, especially Virgil and Horace, take a place of almost equal importance. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero The Romans communicated to their conquerors the use of the Christian religion and Latin language; but their language and their religion had alike degenerated from the simple purity of the Augustan, and Apostolic age. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 It is certain, therefore, that the great Latin writers of the Augustan age did not possess those materials, without which a trustworthy account of the infancy of the republic could not possibly be framed. Lays of Ancient Rome Pradon is now forgotten: and the whole French poetry of the Augustan age of Louis the Fourteenth is threatened with the same fate. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author That of the classic writers of an Augustan age was not of such a kind. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge It was composed avowedly on Tuscan principles, and regarded the 14th century as the Augustan period of the language. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 I knew"—Mr. Brooke reflected in time that he had not had the personal acquaintance of the Augustan poet—"I was going to say, poor Stoddart, you know. Middlemarch Ennius, who flourished in the time of the Second Punic War, was regarded in the Augustan age as the father of Latin poetry. Lays of Ancient Rome His reign was not only "the Augustan Age of France"; it marked the ascendency of France in Europe. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 Was it thus at the Augustan court; when the lord of the conquered world sat banqueting with Virgil on his right hand and Horace on his left? The Adventures of Hugh Trevor The later poets of the Augustan age, Horace, Tibullus, and Ovid, expressed a supercilious disdain for the Jewish customs of Sabbath-keeping, etc., which were spreading even in the politest circles. Josephus These love-poems of a private gentleman of the Augustan time, show a delicacy of sentiment almost modern. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse Greatness of Augustan poets a bar to farther advance, p. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal All are noble specimens of Augustan architecture, more especially the Porte d'Arroux. The Roof of France But his use of it was so different that this poem would have seemed utterly lacking in melody to Augustan ears—Pope would have attempted to "versify" it. Robert Browning: How to Know Him OTHO: VITELLIUS.—With the death of Nero, the Augustan family came to an end. Outline of Universal History All Augustan writers express their dread and weariness of war. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse After the death of the great Augustan authors Alexandrian erudition becomes yet more rampant. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The entire façade is very nearly perfect, and forms a splendid specimen of Augustan architecture in its prime. The Roof of France A more interesting figure, and one the loss of whose works leaves a real gap in Latin literature, is Gaius Cornelius Gallus, the earliest and one of the most brilliant of the Augustan poets. Latin Literature Augustan period was the golden age of Roman literature. Outline of Universal History This vivid manner was lost in the Augustan age. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The influence of rhetoric was of course large in the Augustan age. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Poetic diction rebelled against the Augustan conventions, the stereotyped epithets, the frigid personifications. A Study of Poetry The partial revival of letters in the fourth century may induce us to extend our survey so far as to include Ausonius and Claudian as legitimate, though remote, successors of the Augustan poets. Latin Literature The Augustan age abounds in representatives of these two poetical schools, though possessing little merit. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities But we must in justice remember that the Augustan age of English literature concerned itself but very little with our modern virtue of sobriety. Henry Fielding: a Memoir There is nothing that is out of keeping with the classicism on which we have insisted as a characteristic of Petronius, there is much that is worthy of the best writers of the Augustan age. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Another member of the Augustan circle was Vergil's friend and fellow- worker, Horace. Early European History Of this later Augustan period Ovid is the representative poet. Latin Literature The taste of the age in which he lived turned his attention also to polite literature, and to that may be ascribed the Augustan purity of his style. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The writers themselves were well satisfied with their formality, however, and called their own the Classic or Augustan age of English letters. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Further, the very badness of the poem makes us hesitate to place it in the Augustan period. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The most famous prose writer of the Augustan Age was Livy. Early European History Though Livy is the single great historian of the Augustan age, there was throughout this period a profuse production of memoirs and commentaries, as well as of regular histories. Latin Literature But at the head of this department, as the great representatives of Roman history, stand Julius Caesar, Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus, all of whom, except the last, belong to the Augustan age. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities It was a far more comforting message for the Augustan Age, but it could not silence the tocsins of the French Revolution which sound throughout the speeches of Misson and Carracioli. Of Captain Mission If we review the great poets of the Augustan and republican periods, we shall find little save certain epigrams of Catullus that could not safely have been produced in post-Augustan times. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The half century included within the Augustan Age marks a real epoch in the history of Latin literature. Early European History The Latinity of the later Empire is as distinct from that of the Augustan age as this last is from the Latinity of the Republic. Latin Literature So different was the old Roman from the classical Latin, that some of those ancient fragments were with difficulty intelligible to the cleverest and best educated scholars of the Augustan age. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Philological Society, on the “Pronunciation of Latin in the Augustan Period.” The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Manilius and Phaedrus have been omitted on the ground that as regards the general character of their writings they belong rather to the Augustan period than to the subsequent age of decadence. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Within the boundaries of the empire the Augustan Age was an age of peace and prosperity. Early European History Gaius Asinius Pollio, already mentioned as a critic and tragedian, was also the author of the most important historical work of the Augustan age after Livy's. Latin Literature In the Augustan age, a few writers attained some excellence in tragedy, at least in the opinion of ancient critics. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Examine the chief differences between the Ciceronian and Post- Augustan syntax. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Alexandrian learning, already too much in evidence in the Augustan age, becomes more prominent and more oppressive. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal This, and the fact that the mosaics are pure white, suggests that the houses here must have dated, at latest, from Augustan times. Old Calabria Cicero, who again and again speaks of Ennius in terms of the highest praise, admits that defect of finish on which the Augustan poets lay strong but not unjustified stress. Latin Literature The Latin authors of this age were numerous, but few had taste to appreciate and imitate the literature of the Augustan age. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Mention any differences in syntax between Plautus and the Augustan writers. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Ennius, Accius, and Pacuvius were read and enjoyed by not a few educated readers, but for the Augustan age, as far as the stage was concerned, they were practically dead and buried. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The Roman poets of the pre-Augustan and Augustan periods, unlike Horace, were all well born. Horace The acrid critic of the Augustan age, Asinius Pollio, accused him of having had collections of obsolete words and phrases made for his use out of Cato and the older Roman writers. Latin Literature But the climate and scenery, the history and traditions, and the chivalrous spirit and unexhausted intellectual energies of the South contain the promise of an Augustan age in literature. Poets of the South Trace the causes of the special devotion to poetry during the Augustan Age. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The poets of the Augustan age would have celebrated such a meadow with the warmest raptures; they would have discovered a nymph in every flower, and detected a dryad under every tree. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents Some critics place him in the Augustan age; others make him contemporary with Moschus. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes For this attempt, tradition and circumstance finally proved too strong; and Augustan poetry, outside of a few definite forms, is largely a chronicle of failure. Latin Literature In vain you may seek for the pure and simple light of universal truth in the Augustan ages of antiquity. The American Union Speaker How far did the Augustan poets consciously modify the Greek metres they adopted? The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius This, and all the other tragic attempts of the Augustan age, have perished. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Of the general question of Philodemus' influence upon Varius and Vergil, Varus and Horace, the critics and poets who shaped the ideals of the Augustan literature, it is not yet time to speak. Vergil A Biography Augustan tragedy seems never to have risen for a moment beyond mere academic exercises. Latin Literature In the races he did not give the signals to the charioteers in person, but viewed the spectacle from a front seat with his brothers and his fellow-priests of the Augustan order. Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form Write a life of Maecenas, showing his position as chief minister of the Empire, and as the centre of literary society of Rome during the Augustan Age. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius That Virgil is a great poet I know from his poems; but that he was the greatest of the Augustan age, I must learn from Quinctilian and others. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. Furthermore his theories of literary art are frequently in accord with Horace's Ars Poetica on the very points of chaste diction and precise expression which this Augustan group emphasized. Vergil A Biography The Ciceronian age represents on the whole the culmination of Latin prose, as the Augustan does the culmination of Latin poetry. Latin Literature Of the Third there are three divisions,—the Gallic, in Phoenicia; the Cyrenaic, in Arabia; the Augustan, in Numidia. Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form Examine the influence of the Alexandrine poets upon the literature of the later Republic, and of the Augustan Age. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius In that Augustan era we descry a clear belt of cultivation, averaging about six hundred miles in depth, running in a ring-fence about the Mediterranean. Miscellaneous Essays This group, it would seem, was definitely drawn into Octavian's circle soon after the peace of Brundisium, and formed the nucleus of a kind of literary academy that set the standards for the Augustan age. Vergil A Biography He marks the highest point which the enlarged and enriched prose of the Augustan age reached just before it began to fall into decadence. Latin Literature His Latin poetry is not without a certain barbaric splendour; but it discovers, as might be expected, no skill in the more refined graces of the Augustan age. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives This poet, who is by later writers often confounded with Varro Reatinus, was much more finished in his style, and therefore more read by the Augustan writers. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, together with so much of the nineteenth as we have yet seen, jointly compose the Augustan age of murder. Miscellaneous Essays Why is this period called the Augustan Age? English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Until the appearance of a new school of writers in the reign of Nero, the history of Roman literature is a continuation of the Augustan tradition. Latin Literature Geographical knowledge however was most notably advanced by Strabo, who lived in the Augustan era; although his researches were chiefly confined to the Roman empire. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements There are certain common features shared by the chief Augustan authors which distinguish them from those of the closing Republic. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius But he flourished during the decline of literature, and had neither the taste nor the elegance of the Augustan writers. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations Both these tendencies were continued in the Augustan Age, and are seen clearly in the poetry of Pope, who brought the couplet to perfection, and in the prose of Addison. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World The effort to outdo the Augustan writers had exhausted itself; the new school rather aimed at reproducing their manner. Latin Literature Pertinax would offer up himself if he might bring back the Augustan days—if he might win the warfare that Tiberius lost. Caesar Dies We feel that Catullus was fortunate in dying before the battle of Aetium; had he lived into the Augustan age, it is difficult to see how he could have found a place there. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius From the times before the Augustan age no tragic production has reached us, although Quintilian speaks highly of Accius, especially of the vigor of his style; but he merely imitated the Greeks. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations The age was one of transition from the exuberance and vigor of Renaissance literature to the formality and polish of the Augustan Age. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World The Sortes Vergilianae, if we may believe the confused gossip of the Augustan History, were almost a State institution, while rationalism was still the State creed in ordinary matters. Latin Literature Oh, he was in a fine Augustan mood. Caesar Dies These attracted the imitation of Macer in the Augustan age. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius In this mention of lyrical poetry I have not spoken of Catullus, unrivalled in tender lyric, the greatest poet before the Augustan era. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations This is undoubtedly a very original way of stating the philosophic axiom of the Augustan poet, "The lord of boundless revenues, Do not salute as happy." Oriental Literature The Literature of Arabia The literature of Trajan's reign was second only to that of the Augustan age. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. The great writers of the Augustan age did not arrest degeneracy, any more than Goethe and Bulwer and Byron and Hugo have in our own day. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. He is never mentioned by any of the Augustan writers. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Such an age was that which followed the Augustan era at Rome. General History for Colleges and High Schools I should suppose that his father, without any regular system, polished his taste, and supplied his memory with anecdotes about our best writers in our Augustan age. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 Mention any three writers of the Augustan age, and the character of the writings of each. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Geographical knowledge was advanced by Strabo, who lived in the Augustan era; but researches were chiefly confined to the Roman empire. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. There is no independence of style, merely a graceful reflection from that of the Augustan poets. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The six writers, whose sketches are collected under the general title of the Augustan History, followed in the same track. The Caesars Throughout the ‘Augustan’ era, mythology was approached as a mere treasure-house of pleasant fancies, artificial decorations, ‘motives’, whether sumptuous or meretricious. Proserpine and Midas Its prose writers were, however, unlike those of the Augustan age, far superior to its poets. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. The great lights which illuminated the Augustan age, disappeared, without any to take their place. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. There is a retrograde movement of thought since the Augustan age. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Born in the camp, and train'd in every toil Which taught his sire the haughtiest foes to foil; Destin'd he seem'd by fate to raise his name, And rule the empire with Augustan fame. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete He must not be confounded with Titus Livius, the historian, who flourished in the Augustan age. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 13: Grammarians and Rhetoricians Negative, on one side, the ideal of Restoration and Augustan poetry undoubtedly was. English literary criticism It was more favorable to literature than the lauded "Augustan era." The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. To utilise fictitious situations as a vehicle for individual conviction or lofty declamation on ethical commonplace, was considered quite legitimate even in the Augustan age. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius So men laboured of old time, whether with plough or sickle or pruning-hook, in the days when Augustan Virgil heard the garrulous swallow, still garrulous. The Life of the Fields In the Augustan age of England, classic antiquity was a refuge for the dreaming spirit; in Shakespeare's day, Italy; in the fifteenth century, Arthurian romance. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism This, in fact, was the chief conquest of the Restoration and Augustan critics. English literary criticism He lived before the Augustan era, and died at the age of forty-two by his own hand. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The last Augustan poet we shall notice is M. MANILIUS, whose dry subject has caused him to meet with very general neglect. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Once a swallow sang in passing on the wing, garrulous still as in the time of old Rome and Augustan Virgil. The Life of the Fields The period is known as the Augustan Age, a phrase also used in reference to periods in the history of other countries, in which literature reached its highest perfection. Story of Aeneas This, however, was a truth entirely hidden from the eyes of Johnson and the Augustan critics. English literary criticism In this allusion to lyrical poetry, I have not spoken of Catullus, unrivaled in tender lyric, and the greatest poet before the Augustan era. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Catullus and his contemporaries first treated it at greater length, and paved the way for the highly specialised form in which it appears in Tibullus, the earliest Augustan author that has come down to us. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Fullerian Lectures. —on criticism. —approaching "Augustan Age" of English science. —on his "Flora of Tasmania". —on naturalists' fund. —on "Times" review of the "Origin". —on the Ape question. —on "Punch" squib. —his absence: Edinburgh lectures. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Accepting these as descriptions, however imperfect, of two different types of literature, we can have no doubt to which division to refer the literary remains of Augustan Rome. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace Augustan age, reign of Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, famed for many great authors. Legends of Charlemagne But he flourished in the decline of literature, and has neither the taste nor elegance of the Augustan writers. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The severe strain of the Augustan age brought its inevitable reaction. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Augustan epoch to be beaten by an English epoch. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Not quite easy to read, for the Latin is by no means Augustan, but after labour well spent, a delightful revelation of the man and the age. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy This was for the instruction of the public; and part of it has, perhaps, found its way into the Augustan Histories. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Nor had literary life in England already advanced to a stage of development of which, as in the Elizabethan and Augustan ages, literary jealousy was an indispensable accompaniment. Chaucer The flowers which had bloomed so delicately in the wreath of the Augustan poets, short-lived as fragrant, scatter their sweetness no more in the rank weed-grown garden of their successors. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius There have been many versions, beginning with the beautiful Augustan French example of Professor Galland, but all have failed, or rather no one has attempted, to reproduce the great Oriental masterpiece. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 He might have been, like good Dr. Arbuthnot, an ornament of the Augustan age. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters The Augustan is, undoubtedly, the most intellectual and refined age, in point of literary and artistic taste, that the world has ever seen. Irish Race in the Past and the Present I have gone through the Augustan history, and much other trash relating to the lower empire; curious as illustrating the state of society, but utterly worthless as composition. Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 On the other hand, prose has, in the Augustan age, lost somewhat of its breadth and vigour. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius This "sanctuary of the Temple of Athene," as it was called in the stilted language of the day, has been illuminated for us by the rank, beauty, and talent of the Augustan age of France. The Women of the French Salons Is not its illustrious ancestry evident in the nobleness and high-mindedness of the present Urbs Augustan generation? Dona Perfecta Boileau also thought it probable that, in the best modern Latin, a writer of the Augustan age would have detected ludicrous improprieties. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Not much reliance, however, can be placed on this tradition, which first appears in a writer of the Augustan age. History of Phoenicia Horace implies that he maintained during the Augustan age the reputation of a dignified writer. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius It was raised in the Augustan age, by the Roman colony of Nismes, to convey a stream of water between two mountains, for the use of that city. Travels through France and Italy Or, if we remember these mediaeval times, they look further off than the Augustan age. The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni The new breed of scholars, the Aschams and Buchanans, nourished with the finest compositions of the Augustan age, regarded with loathing the dry, crabbed, and barbarous diction of respondents and opponents. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 The proud blasphemers thought all earth their own; They deemed that soon the whirlwind of their ire Would sweep down tower and palace, dome and spire, The Christian altars and the Augustan throne. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 It saw the rise and fall of dramatic art: in other respects it merely introduced the forms which were carried to perfection in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The Augustan age produced nothing equal to their finer passages. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Nothing went right with Rome for long together after the Augustan age, but whether it was because she did restore the temples or because she did not restore them I know not. The Way of All Flesh Thus the Augustan age was rich in great minds formed in the generation of Cicero and Caesar. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Neither the style nor the versification of the young scholar was that of the Augustan age. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 In the Augustan and early imperial times, antiquity was treated with much less reverence. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius It may be that this is the Augustan era of Boston—its Elizabethan time. North America — Volume 2 The great genius of the Roman was political; the Augustan Age produced a few great historians and poets, but not a single great philosopher or creative devotee of science. A History of Science — Volume 1 In another letter he compares the change which had recently passed on English poetry to the decay of Latin poetry after the Augustan age. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England he never possessed. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Once—in that Augustan age, whose brightest ornament was Captain Hind—it was something of a distinction to be decently plundered. A Book of Scoundrels However, even this unconsidered elder shared a thought in common with the Augustan now approaching: Mr. Parcher had just been thinking that there was true romance in the scene before him. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William We are guided back to admiration of the measure and moderation and shapeliness of the Augustan age. Hearts of Controversy Thus it was, in some measure, with the Augustan age. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Yet, though he lived in the true Augustan age, he yielded to no one of his rivals in glorious recognition. A Book of Scoundrels Living in a true Augustan age, he was a classic among highwaymen, the very Virgil of the Pad. A Book of Scoundrels "Through the gaping crowds the young Augustan noble was borne down from the Palatine, scornful in his jeweled litter...." Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William These poor sidewalk creatures little knew what seethed inside the alabaster of the young Augustan noble! Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William |
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