 ... day events can afford no subject of inspiration; the decencies and conventional proprieties of civilised life lie upon it as a deadening spell ; the assimilating and levelling tone of manners smooths away all which is salient. But we do not see why...  Life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Page 67by Henry Hart Milman - 1854 - 194 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1838 - 594 pages
...and levelling tone of manners smooths away all which is salient. But we do not see why there should not be a poetry of the most civilised and highly cultivated...office, and to exercise a more limited authority, yet we cannot think, or rather we will not fear, that it will ever be so completely extinguished in the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 630 pages
...away all which is salient. , But we do not see why there should not be a poetry of the most civilized and highly cultivated state of human society; something...office, and to exercise a more limited authority, yet we cannot think, or rather we will not fear, that it will ever be so completely extinguished in the... | |
 | Horace - Latin poetry - 1849 - 798 pages
...in the past or in the future. At all events, it must have recourse to some remote or extraerdinary excitement: the calm course of every-day events can...feared, that it will ever be so completely extinguished (M) " Idcirco quidam, comœdia, nccue poema, Esset, quaesivere." Sat. t. iv. 45. & s» in tho mind... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 896 pages
...not (says the Dean of St. Paul's in his excellent Life of Horace) be a poetry of the most civilized and highly cultivated state of human society, something...Human nature in all its forms is the domain of poetry There is room enough on the broad heights of Helicon, at least on its many peaks, for Homer and Menander,... | |
 | Horace - 1897 - 836 pages
...wltivated state of human society ; something equable, tranquil, aciene; affording delight by its wisdom end truth, by its grace and elegance ? Human nature in all its forms is the domain of poetry find though the imagination may have to perform a different olliee. and to exercise a more limited... | |
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