Tuesday, August 09, 2011

 

Not Altogether Vulgar or Bad

H.G. Wells, The Autocracy of Mr. Parham (Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1930), p. 35:
There was something in this experience that reminded Mr. Parham of Horace and the naughtier side of the Latin poets, and anything that reminded him of Horace and the naughtier side of the Latin poets could not, he felt, be altogether vulgar or bad.



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