 Ciceronian eloquence for something "masculine" and of his own desire for a "more masculine" style. Ciceronian copia in these discussions is both effeminate and the style of a more prodigal youth, to be outgrown once one had become a man: "I used to imitate...  Studies in Philology - Pagina 981921Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 pagina’s
...represses emotion or that seeks epigrammatic 'point'. Lipsius declared his allegiance in a letter of 1586: 'I love Cicero; I even used to imitate him; but I am a man, and my tastes have changed. Asiatic feasts have ceased to please me; I prefer the Attie'... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 284 pagina’s
...prodigal youth, to be outgrown once one had become a man: "I used to imitate Cicero", writes Lipsius; "but I have become a man, and my tastes have changed....Asiatic feasts have ceased to please me; I prefer the Attic." '29 And this bias appears also in the Renaissance view of the femininity of verse and the Puritan... | |
 | Patricia Parker - 2005 - 254 pagina’s
...humanist who exercised such an important influence on Jonson and other English writers, proclaims that "I have become a man, and my tastes have changed....Asiatic feasts have ceased to please me: I prefer the Attic."26 The barbering identified with Asiatic excess was at the same time associated with slaves... | |
 | Russ McDonald - 2006
...prodigal youth, to be outgrown once one had become a man: "I used to imitate Cicero," writes Lipsius; "but I have become a man, and my tastes have changed....Asiatic feasts have ceased to please me; I prefer the Attic." 37 And this bias appears also in the Renaissance view of the femininity of verse and the Puritan... | |
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