Quote#Poetry
The wonderful energies which were developed in the universal…
Quote byHenry Hart Milman · 1791–1868
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (1854), p. 32.
English (original)
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.
— Henry Hart Milman
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