Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 12
... Latin , and I will turn it into elegant Greek between the throws of dice . I can make love and mind my game at once , as Flaminius can tell you . " 66 Well , then , to be plain , Cæsar , Flaminius has been talking to me about plots ...
... Latin , and I will turn it into elegant Greek between the throws of dice . I can make love and mind my game at once , as Flaminius can tell you . " 66 Well , then , to be plain , Cæsar , Flaminius has been talking to me about plots ...
Page 51
... Latin tongue , which , under the most favourable cir- cumstances , and in the hands of the greatest masters , had still been poor , feeble , and singularly unpoetical , and which had , in the age of Dante , been debased by the admixture ...
... Latin tongue , which , under the most favourable cir- cumstances , and in the hands of the greatest masters , had still been poor , feeble , and singularly unpoetical , and which had , in the age of Dante , been debased by the admixture ...
Page 68
... Latin models could only have served to mislead him . Indeed , it is impossible not to remark his admiration of writers far inferior to himself ; and , in particular , his idolatry of Virgil , who , elegant and splendid as he is , has no ...
... Latin models could only have served to mislead him . Indeed , it is impossible not to remark his admiration of writers far inferior to himself ; and , in particular , his idolatry of Virgil , who , elegant and splendid as he is , has no ...
Page 73
... Latin literature partook of the superi- ority . The Roman poets have decidedly surpassed those of Greece in the delineation of the passion of love , There is no subject which they have treated with so much . success . Ovid , Catullus ...
... Latin literature partook of the superi- ority . The Roman poets have decidedly surpassed those of Greece in the delineation of the passion of love , There is no subject which they have treated with so much . success . Ovid , Catullus ...
Page 78
... Latin poems , from the re- straints which always shackle one who writes in a dead language , cannot fairly be received in evidence . But his Triumphs absolutely required the exercise of this talent , and exhibit no indications of it ...
... Latin poems , from the re- straints which always shackle one who writes in a dead language , cannot fairly be received in evidence . But his Triumphs absolutely required the exercise of this talent , and exhibit no indications of it ...
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