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... Roman civilization , for Gibbon , evidently constituted a mean between two rival cultural extremes : the decadent totalitarian monarchy of Persia in the east ; and the barbarian tribal anarchy of Scotland and Germany in the west . Rome ...
... Roman civilization , for Gibbon , evidently constituted a mean between two rival cultural extremes : the decadent totalitarian monarchy of Persia in the east ; and the barbarian tribal anarchy of Scotland and Germany in the west . Rome ...
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... Roman satirists , and especially Horace in the opening lines of his Satire I. iv , cite as precedent for their own censoriousness the freedom of speech practiced in the Greek Old Comedy ( vetus comoedia ) , especially Aristophanes's ...
... Roman satirists , and especially Horace in the opening lines of his Satire I. iv , cite as precedent for their own censoriousness the freedom of speech practiced in the Greek Old Comedy ( vetus comoedia ) , especially Aristophanes's ...
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... Roman vaudeville or Greek choric dances . A very large part of the Discourse , into which I shall not go here , carefully distinguishes both the Roman word satura and the works to which it was applied from similar - sounding Greek words ...
... Roman vaudeville or Greek choric dances . A very large part of the Discourse , into which I shall not go here , carefully distinguishes both the Roman word satura and the works to which it was applied from similar - sounding Greek words ...
Contents
DRYDEN IN CONTEXT | 1 |
Dryden and Satire | 41 |
Drydens Theory and Practice of Satire | 55 |
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