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Page 93
... turns from Love to Death , he becomes his own master , no longer the Celt but the free Roman . And as we read the Roman lyric we find , I think , that the language and its writers do not easily submit themselves to the tyranny of an ...
... turns from Love to Death , he becomes his own master , no longer the Celt but the free Roman . And as we read the Roman lyric we find , I think , that the language and its writers do not easily submit themselves to the tyranny of an ...
Page 94
... turn to the most Roman of the Roman lyrists . It is useless to try to define the charm of Horace's style ; the attempt has been made again and again , and I suppose that curiosa felicitas comes nearest to success ; but we can at least ...
... turn to the most Roman of the Roman lyrists . It is useless to try to define the charm of Horace's style ; the attempt has been made again and again , and I suppose that curiosa felicitas comes nearest to success ; but we can at least ...
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... turn to our own native product . And we are at once conscious that we are dealing with something not only wholly un - Greek , but also with something very peculiarly English . There is in the English temperament something which loves ...
... turn to our own native product . And we are at once conscious that we are dealing with something not only wholly un - Greek , but also with something very peculiarly English . There is in the English temperament something which loves ...
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