Author: Gaston Boissier

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Published: 2015-07-03

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781330662403

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Excerpt from The Country of Horace and Virgil One cannot read Horace without longing to be acquainted with that country house in which he was so happy. Can we know exactly where it was? Is it possible to find again, not the very stones of his villa, which time has doubtless scattered, but the charming spot he has so oft described - those lofty mountains which "sheltered his goats from the summer fires;" that spring by which he was wont to stretch himself in the day's hot hours; those woods, those rivulets, those valleys - in fine, that landscape which he had before his eyes during the longer and better portion of his life ? People have been asking themselves this question ever since the Renaissance, and its solution might have been early foreseen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Country of Horace and Virgil (Classic Reprint) written by Gaston Boissier and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Country of Horace and Virgil One cannot read Horace without longing to be acquainted with that country house in which he was so happy. Can we know exactly where it was? Is it possible to find again, not the very stones of his villa, which time has doubtless scattered, but the charming spot he has so oft described - those lofty mountains which "sheltered his goats from the summer fires;" that spring by which he was wont to stretch himself in the day's hot hours; those woods, those rivulets, those valleys - in fine, that landscape which he had before his eyes during the longer and better portion of his life ? People have been asking themselves this question ever since the Renaissance, and its solution might have been early foreseen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.