Thomas Babington Macaulay Quote

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.


Lays of Ancient Rome (ed. 1843)


Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models;...

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models;...

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models;...

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models;...