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Catullus
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  • Yet when I read Shakespeare or Catullus, lying in the long grass, he understands more than Louis.†  (source)
  • Who was Catullus?†  (source)
  • I read Lempriere, Catullus, Martial, Juvenal, Lucian, Beaumont and Fletcher, Boccaccio, Scarron, De Brantome, Sterne, De Foe, Smollett, Fielding, Shakespeare, the Bible, and other such; and found that all interest in the unwholesome part of those books ended with its mystery.†  (source)
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  • This exponent or symbol held forth by metrical language must in different eras of literature have excited very different expectations: for example, in the age of Catullus, Terence, and Lucretius and that of Statius or Claudian; and in our own country, in the age of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher, and that of Donne and Cowley, or Dryden, or Pope.†  (source)
  • By Catullus.†  (source)
  • They will make it impossible for me always to read Catullus in a third-class railway carriage.†  (source)
  • I do not impersonate Catullus, whom I adore.†  (source)
  • Those are laboratories perhaps; and that a library, where I shall explore the exactitude of the Latin language, and step firmly upon the well-laid sentences, and pronounce the explicit, the sonorous hexameters of Virgil, of Lucretius; and chant with a passion that is never obscure or formless the loves of Catullus, reading from a big book, a quarto with margins.†  (source)
  • Should I desert these form rooms and libraries, and the broad yellow page in which I read Catullus, for woods and fields?†  (source)
  • So he turned with a passion that made up for his indolence upon Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, lying lazily dormant, yes, but regardant, noticing, with rapture, cricketers, while with a mind like the tongue of an ant-eater, rapid, dexterous, glutinous, he searched out every curl and twist of those Roman sentences, and sought out one person, always one person to sit beside.†  (source)
  • It's a bit from Catullus," he said.†  (source)
  • Many, such as Cicero, despised Catullus's poetry because it often used crude language.†
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