Quotes from Life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus — Henry Hart Milman
1791–1868 England
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The wonderful energies which were developed in the universal conquests of Rome, and in her civil factions, in which the great end of ambition was to be the first citizen in a state which ruled the world, could not but awaken intellectual powers of the highest order. The force and vigour of the Roman character is manifest in the fragments of their early poetry.
Life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (1854)
But where were the Roman people? where was that stern, and frugal, and strongly national plebeian race, which so long maintained the Roman character for order, virtue, freedom; and which, if factious and unruly, was factious for noble ends, and unruly in defence or assertion of its rights?
Life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (1854)