Word: augustans
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Hollis Street Theatre-Augustan Daly's Company in the Great Unknown...
...lost much of that broad influence which he had exercised over the life and intellect of the civilized world. He lost his character as a philosopher and came to be regarded merely for his position in literature. Later he was not even accorded the supremacy in literature. In the Augustan age and the later centuries he was not appreciated, and Virgil was held in higher estimation. With the revival of letters, at the period of the Renaissance, the Greek language began to regain much of its lost power and Homer to reassume his proper place in literature. England...
...authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole the Augustan age of English literature ceased, and authorship became so precarious an avocation that many authors were reduced to the extremest straits and to absolute want...
...This poem, from an old collection in the Library, supposed to be of the Augustan age, has been sent to the Magenta, as one more proof of our great resemblance to the ancients in our pleasures as well as in our severer traits...