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... reading of Horatian literature , if it made originality appear even more impossible , seemed at the same time to encourage or even neces- sitate independent judgement . It lessened to some extent the feeling of personal obligation , by ...
... reading of Horatian literature , if it made originality appear even more impossible , seemed at the same time to encourage or even neces- sitate independent judgement . It lessened to some extent the feeling of personal obligation , by ...
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... reader with any imagination thinks himself equal ; and he is apt to resent what seem to him the superfluous , if not prosaic and inadequate , com- ments of another mind . A commentator on a poet so loved and familiar as Horace is , at ...
... reader with any imagination thinks himself equal ; and he is apt to resent what seem to him the superfluous , if not prosaic and inadequate , com- ments of another mind . A commentator on a poet so loved and familiar as Horace is , at ...
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... reader that he has not read a poem properly unless he has attempted to do this for himself , if they make him less ready to admit in any poet , and especially in Horace , the existence of ' inert ' epithets , and pur- poseless ...
... reader that he has not read a poem properly unless he has attempted to do this for himself , if they make him less ready to admit in any poet , and especially in Horace , the existence of ' inert ' epithets , and pur- poseless ...
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... reader , by appearing to settle without discussion questions which are really open . Happily the text of Horace is ... readings , either of which has much to say for itself , makes good sense , and has been supported by great scholars ...
... reader , by appearing to settle without discussion questions which are really open . Happily the text of Horace is ... readings , either of which has much to say for itself , makes good sense , and has been supported by great scholars ...
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... reading is not in truth older than the MSS . ( not usually very ancient ) of the grammatical author himself . So far , then , as external testimony goes , it is clear that when a dis- puted reading occurs , the evidence to which we can ...
... reading is not in truth older than the MSS . ( not usually very ancient ) of the grammatical author himself . So far , then , as external testimony goes , it is clear that when a dis- puted reading occurs , the evidence to which we can ...
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