“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 175
“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 99 (tr. John Conington)
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