The valley and villa of Horace . THE VALLEY AND VILLAOF HORACE HIS paper has no designsupon your critical does it aim to make anycontribution to Horatianhermeneutics, for the paganlyrist (pagan because humanand natural) has long beenthe cloyed recipient of inter-. pretations without number. For the timebeing we are merely Epicurean pilgrims,followers of him who succeeded no one andhad no successor in Roman lyric verse;admirers of the poet whom multitudes haveheld to be a vest-pocket edition of univer-sality, the quintessential expression of triteand homely yet solemn and inevitab
The valley and villa of Horace . THE VALLEY AND VILLAOF HORACE HIS paper has no designsupon your critical does it aim to make anycontribution to Horatianhermeneutics, for the paganlyrist (pagan because humanand natural) has long beenthe cloyed recipient of inter-. pretations without number. For the timebeing we are merely Epicurean pilgrims,followers of him who succeeded no one andhad no successor in Roman lyric verse;admirers of the poet whom multitudes haveheld to be a vest-pocket edition of univer-sality, the quintessential expression of triteand homely yet solemn and inevitable truthcontained in a perfection of form that isstill unrivalled. The cosmic scene-shifters, who arc sonoisily and fiendishly busy at this time II dragging from the universal stage before ourvery eyes the settings of an old era andlugging in the furniture of a new, cannotpermanently divert our attention from thegreat and the wise who played their part inearlier scenes. We should stifle, if we couldnot from time to time return to our ancientheritage. More than ever is the wisdom ofthe ages necessary; more than ever mustwe lean on the prophets of old for suchcomfort as is at all obtainable, for our proph-ets to-day, from Haeckel and Bergson toPastor Russell and Billy Sun
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