Oxford Essays

ISBN: 9781330405468 出版年：2016 页码：391 University of Oxford Forgotten Books

From the decay of Greek liberty and genius Roman poetry arose. But along with the genuine power of receiving and reproducing Greek influences, the Italian poets derived from their own country a capacity of feeling and depicting the beauty of Nature, a gravity, earnestness, and moral fervour, which they shared with the Latin orators and historians, an imagination peculiarly impressible by ideas of vastness, order, and majesty, and a sympathetic admiration of the imperial greatness of Rome.