The United States Democratic Review, Volume 14J.& H.G. Langley, 1844 - United States Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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Page 587
... Statius became the model of a court poet . He thought in verse , dreamed in verse , and had you struck him , the hollow sound of an hexameter would have resounded from within . No Roman ever possessed the talent of vers de societé to ...
... Statius became the model of a court poet . He thought in verse , dreamed in verse , and had you struck him , the hollow sound of an hexameter would have resounded from within . No Roman ever possessed the talent of vers de societé to ...
Page 588
... Statius , the recitationes began to decline . The hearing public of Rome was a patient public ; but what patience so beread and berecited could endure to sit quiet and open - eyed for hour after hour ? Pliny , who was him- " " self an ...
... Statius , the recitationes began to decline . The hearing public of Rome was a patient public ; but what patience so beread and berecited could endure to sit quiet and open - eyed for hour after hour ? Pliny , who was him- " " self an ...
Page 589
... Statius has great merit . He was not only success- ful with the people , but popular with the critics . Juvenal himself alludes to him in a flattering manner . Nor have the readers of later ages condemned the taste of his cotemporaries ...
... Statius has great merit . He was not only success- ful with the people , but popular with the critics . Juvenal himself alludes to him in a flattering manner . Nor have the readers of later ages condemned the taste of his cotemporaries ...
Page 591
... " is made to say of Bonaparte- " Je ne change pas , c'est lui qui a changé . Je suis tou- jours pour celui qui gouverne- . " * Besides those mentioned with Statius , he speaks of 1844. ] 59r1 The Latin Poets of the Decline .
... " is made to say of Bonaparte- " Je ne change pas , c'est lui qui a changé . Je suis tou- jours pour celui qui gouverne- . " * Besides those mentioned with Statius , he speaks of 1844. ] 59r1 The Latin Poets of the Decline .
Page 592
... Statius , and Statius is equally silent in regard to Martial . Is this not enough to make us imagine a jealous rivalry between the two poets ? And suspi- cion grows almost into certainty , when we find by their works that twice they ...
... Statius , and Statius is equally silent in regard to Martial . Is this not enough to make us imagine a jealous rivalry between the two poets ? And suspi- cion grows almost into certainty , when we find by their works that twice they ...
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