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Page ix
... True that if today one were to let slip a quotation from Horace at most dinner parties , one might well be regarded as a particularly odious type of " name - dropper " . But no social convention can restrain us in our solitude or when ...
... True that if today one were to let slip a quotation from Horace at most dinner parties , one might well be regarded as a particularly odious type of " name - dropper " . But no social convention can restrain us in our solitude or when ...
Page xi
... true that there are no other poets . It is true that Catullus expresses his feelings ( in his love poems ) with an extraordinary directness . It is not true that equally deep feelings cannot be expressed in a more oblique manner . When ...
... true that there are no other poets . It is true that Catullus expresses his feelings ( in his love poems ) with an extraordinary directness . It is not true that equally deep feelings cannot be expressed in a more oblique manner . When ...
Page 169
... True worth is not found raising or resigning The fasces at the breeze of popular whim . For those who do not merit death , exploring Ways barred to ordinary men , true worth Opens a path to heaven and spurns on soaring Pinions the trite ...
... True worth is not found raising or resigning The fasces at the breeze of popular whim . For those who do not merit death , exploring Ways barred to ordinary men , true worth Opens a path to heaven and spurns on soaring Pinions the trite ...
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