How To Use Augustan In A Sentence
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The Augustan age of English literature includes the writers Dryden, Swift and Pope.
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The Augustanera sculpture of a life-size male in a toga was secured on a foam-covered wooden frame to cushion its rescue.
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Augustan History.] 153 There is still extant a very pretty Epithalamium, composed by Gallienus for the nuptials of his nephews: — Ite ait, O juvenes, pariter sudate medullis
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Instead, Gove's eccentric emphasis on a pair of Augustans who are commonly reserved for abler undergraduates suggests that his project for English literature is as instrumentalist as his retro, kings-and-queens version of history.
Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren
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The object chosen as find of the week is nothing else than an Augustan half-capital with adjoining smooth half-column (see left picture), which must have projected 0.35 m from the antae (projecting side walls) on the front of the pronaos.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008
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Debbie has some fine Augustan echoes: rolling decasyllabic lines though with impish breaks that propel semantic leaps, as in the first few lines!
Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson
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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
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As it is almost excluded that nothing of a potential Augustan peripteros was preserved, one has to reconstruct the Augustan Temple of Apollo Klarios as a simple naos of which the facade of the pronaos was shaped as a pseudo-peripteral naos (this means with attached half-columns instead of free standing ones) with smooth half-columns projecting from the antae and fluted half-column on either side of the door, all columns being crowned by Ionic half-capitals.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008
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Augustan ideals may retroactively remold the character and ambition of such figures as the Trojan Aeneas, but it is difficult to find in the Roman attitude toward Greek culture anything comparable to the humanist ideal of romanitas.
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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
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The amiability is the author's and it is the amiability of the measured Augustan, who sees life steadily, sees it whole and gets a jolly good laugh out of it.
The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum
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Keen, though too young to have “flourished” in the Augustan period of comic drama, has inherited the conceptive power and acquired the highly finished manner of that school.
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Augustana's 2006 NSSE scores for student-faculty interaction were below the average benchmark for first-year students attending similar institutions, but Abernathy hopes that the needle will move next year, when the campus will again administer the survey.
Illinois college's faculty rethink how they teach
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The refortified walls were often the ancient structures (sometimes, indeed, pre-Augustan); but if these were either absent or totally unserviceable, new walls might be built from scratch.
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Translation was central to the Augustan programme to classicize English literary culture.
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It's still stranger to imagine legions of English noctambulists marching into moonlit fields to chant Dryden and Pope; but the implication of Wordsworth's scenario is that anyone undertaking the experiment would soon see the superiority of the night sky to the painted firmament of Augustan poetry.
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[156] [Footnote 152: See his life in the Augustan History.] [Footnote 153: There is still extant a very pretty Epithalamium, composed by Gallienus for the nuptials of his nephews: -- "Ite ait, O juvenes, pariter sudate medullis Omnibus, inter vos: non murmura vestra columbae, Brachia non hederae, non vincant oscula conchae."] [Footnote 154: He was on the point of giving Plotinus a ruined city of
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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It is very characteristic of the Hellenistic period, but shows evidence of an Augustan remodelling.
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These were demonstrably built in two phases, one Augustan and the other Severan, since they are very different in style and construction: the excavator estimated that the original structure had places for at most six hundred people.
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The ancient mythology here seems revived; the naiades are placed on the borders of rivers, the nymphs in woods worthy of them, the tombs beneath Elysian shades, and the statue of Esculapius in the middle of an isle, while that of Venus appears to rise out of the waters: Ovid and Virgil might walk in this enchanting spot, and still believe themselves in the Augustan age.
Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
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the Augustan Age
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But he would be the alley-fighter who could argue over modern philosophy and quote the poets of the Augustan age.
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``Calvin has become a client of Haladay Genealogical Services, and a member of the Augustan Society.
THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
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The well-tried Roman policy of divide and rule had been the basis of Augustan diplomacy and continued during the conquest.
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The imitations imply knowledge of imported origins and, in fact, the Divari tombs did contain Augustan-period beakers of Italian thin-walled ware.
