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Word: virgil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virgil's Genius in the Pastoral", Professor Greene, Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/14/1928 | See Source »

...William Schwenck Gilbert was early initiated to drama. At two, he was kidnaped by Italian brigands?his parents were visiting Naples?and redeemed for £25, a sound investment. At 15, he ran away from school to be an actor, but he was sent back to his Aristophanes and Virgil. He became instead a soldier, a clerk, a barrister, and to all outward appearances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Topsy- Turvydom | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Narrative Poetry | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

TODAY 2-4 O'clock Virgil, Horace, Plato, Aristotle, Chaucer, Milton, Dante, Cervantes, Moliere, GoetheNew Lecture Hall MONDAY 2-5 O'clock English Literature New Lecture Hall TUESDAY 2-5 O'clock French, Spanish, German, Italian Literatures New Lecture Hall MONDAY, MAY 7 9.15-12.15 O'clock History, Government, Economics Memorial Hall History of Philosophy and General Psychology Emerson 27 9.15-10.45 O'clock Social Ethics, Allied Fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL EXAMINATIONS | 4/28/1928 | See Source »

...Virgil, Horace, Plato, Aristotle, Chaucer, Milton, Dante, Cervantes, Moliere, Goethe New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL EXAMINATIONS | 4/27/1928 | See Source »

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