The crowd assumed the police must be firing blanks at them, until a.38 caliber bullet ripped through Virgil Harrison's right forearm. |
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And it's funny because riffing on Virgil is exactly how I thought of it myself. |
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The Eclogues, four short poems, 319 lines in all, are strongly influenced by Virgil and Calpurnius. |
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In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus. |
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He also published occasional verses, satires, and a free translation from Virgil. |
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Virgil was an epic poet in the Homeric tradition, with his Aeneid telling the story of a survivor from Troy. |
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Finding that one verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso. |
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That behavior soon earned him a visit from Virgil and Morgan, who promptly pistol-whipped him. |
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He travestied Virgil, remaking the original Trojans into Ukrainian kozaks and the destruction of Troy into the abolition of the hetmanate. |
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Virgil recognizes the anomaly of expunged Trojan origins and effectively mythicizes it in Book 12 of the Aeneid. |
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Virgil is accepted to the prestigious institute, where he's received coolly by the upperclassmen. |
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He was one of the Roman humanists who took a delight in conversing in the language of Horace and Virgil, of Cicero and Martial for its own sake. |
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The fellow with the cell phone, ironically named Virgil, chats obsessively on it with a number of intimates, including his former girlfriend Alice. |
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The Commedia's last allusion to Virgil occurs as late as the final canto, when the poet marks the dissolution of his own powers in the face of God's reality. |
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Solzhenitsyn was my Virgil many a time as I passed through the circles of incarceration. |
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This is a sardar who knows that, metaphorically speaking, what has meant most to him is not carnal knowledge of a virgin but intellectual knowledge of Virgil. |
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Each of his 40 chapters, which range from Homer and Virgil to e-books and the future of literature, averages only six pages. |
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To silence the dog, Virgil throws clods of earth into each of his throats. |
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Instead of subjecting description to action, as do Homer and Virgil in their narrativizing descriptions, Keats defamiliarizes the adjective and lingers on it. |
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Virgil compares the working Carthaginians to a hive of busy bees. |
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Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians. |
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It was essentially two Roman poets, Ovid and Virgil, who gave us this tragic and terrible story. |
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This belief was affirmed by Seneca the Younger in his Phaedra and by Virgil in his Georgics. |
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The students were taught rhetoric based on the Rhetorica ad Herennium, and Greek centred on the works of Homer and Virgil. |
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Blackstone revelled in Charterhouse's academic curriculum, particularly the Latin poetry of Ovid and Virgil. |
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Pierre Didot was awarded a gold medal at the exhibition of 1798, for his edition of Virgil. |
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The celebrated Louvre editions are Virgil, Racine, Horace, and La Fontaine. |
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He took offense at Tull's rejection of not only Virgil, but of any and all who practiced husbandry in his style. |
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Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject. |
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It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted. |
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It was the translation of Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, and Virgil that gave English Elizabethan poetry the startword. |
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In the motion picture The Godfather gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled. |
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Sims shot at them, killing one, thirteen-year-old Virgil Ware. |
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Guisborough's Virgil Szekely demonstrated that he is equally at home with classical chess as he is at speed chess. |
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Another excellent ancient description is that of the murrain of Noricum by the Roman poet Virgil. |
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Virgil, an educated, property-owning Roman citizen, positions himself unproblematically in the center of his culture. |
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The result is gore, as in when Virgil is slashed and ripped to pieces. |
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Poets, from Virgil and Ovid to Mallarme and Rilke, have written his story. |
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Sarah began to change her diagnosis when, one night in a dream, she saw her ex-father-in-law Virgil paying a senior man to ensorcell her. |
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The epics of Homer inspired the Aeneid of Virgil, and authors such as Seneca the younger wrote using Greek styles. |
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John Lewkenor, for example, challenges Virgil and the hierarchies of epic in a Petronius-style antiepic. |
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Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido? |
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It was great to report back to Mike and Jason on this knowing they were eager to hear that everything was operational. F.A.B. Virgil! |
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He knew patristic literature, as well as Pliny the Elder, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace and other classical writers. |
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Poets like Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Augustus. |
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Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome. |
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Virgil told how the Trojan hero Aeneas became the ancestor of the Roman people. |
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Although Virgil died before he could put the finishing touches on his poem, it was soon recognized as the greatest work of Latin literature. |
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Latin moves with impressive dignity in the writings of Ovid, Cicero, or Virgil. |
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It is difficult to find evidence that the poet shared knowledge of classical poets, such as Virgil and Ovid, with the likes of Chaucer. |
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At that school Coleridge became friends with Charles Lamb, a schoolmate, and studied the works of Virgil and William Lisle Bowles. |
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American composers Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland cited Satie's music for Entr'acte as a major influence on their own forays into film scoring. |
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In the post fight interview in the ring after the bout, Khan credited his 12 months of boxing training with Virgil Hunter for his success. |
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He and the composer Virgil Thomson continually wrote disparagingly about Barbirolli, comparing him unfavourably with Toscanini. |
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In the Aeneid, Virgil mentions rowing forming part of the funeral games arranged by Aeneas in honour of his father. |
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Thus we read in the life of Virgil, and how far his Natalitial Poplar had out-strip'd the rest of its Contemporaries. |
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The language of the Romans was Latin, which Virgil emphasizes as a source of Roman unity and tradition. |
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Virgil, the first known Roman writer to refer to the narcissus, does so in several places, for instance twice in the Georgics. |
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For example, WBO light heavyweight champion Michalczewski unified his title with the WBA and IBF titles by defeating Virgil Hill. |
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Examples include Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Virgil Goode of Virginia, Frazier Reams of Ohio, and Victor Berger of Wisconsin. |
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Ovid, author of the Metamorphoses and one of three main Augustan poets along with Virgil and Horace. |
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The castle's name allegedly arose from a legend of the Roman poet Virgil, who developed a reputation as a sorcerer and foreseer of the future. |
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The other classical representations comprise two Pompeian wall paintings, three contorniates, and a miniature in a Virgil manuscript in the Vatican. |
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Its significance is perhaps best reflected in its endurance and influence, as is seen in the longevity and lasting importance of the works of Virgil and Ovid. |
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Virgil will head it as well, he likes the blood and snotters side too. |
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Virgil, Milton, and Voltaire have obscured the idea of the Epic, as the perfection of ballad poetry, by trying to write after the Epic model in an unepic age. |
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Virgil also provided divine justification for Roman rule over the world. |
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The logical outcome of this tendency is the historical novel with Pytheas as the main character and the celebration of Pytheas in poetry beginning as far back as Virgil. |
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Gildon thought that Shakespeare drew inspiration from the works of Ovid and Virgil, and that he could read them in the original Latin and not in later translations. |
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Virgil was seen as the pinnacle of Latin literature, and Latin was the dominant literary language of England at the time, therefore making Virgilian influence highly likely. |
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The Roman poet Virgil recounted this legend in his classical epic poem the Aeneid, where the Trojan prince Aeneas is destined by the gods to found a new Troy. |
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From Homer onward epic was an unsigned genre, and such tradition was respected by Virgil, who signed only the Georgics, but not the Eclogues, nor the Aeneid. |
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