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Excerpt from The Works of Horace, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated by Philip Francis, D.D
In this freedom of spirit it disdains to mark the transitions, which preserve a connection in all other writings, and which naturally conduct the mind from one thought to another. From whence it must often happen, that while a translator is grammatically explaining his author, and opening his reasoning, that genius and manner, and bold ness of thinking, which are effects Of an immediate poetical enthusiasm, shall either be wholly lost, or greatly dissipated and enfeebled.
It is remarkable, that this kind of poetry was the first that appeared in Rome, as it was the first that was known in Greece, and was used in the same subjects by the Romans, while they had not yet any correspondence with Greece and her learning. However, it continued in almost its first rudeness until the Augustan age, when Horace, improved by reading and imitating the Grecian poets, carried it at once to its perfection, and, in the judgment of Quintilian, is almost the only Latin lyric poet worthy of being read.
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