Excerpt from Ideas Desgraciadamente nuestros antiguos poetas que tanto culto dieron a las literaturas griega y latina no hicieron otra cosa que tomar de ellas la parte esterna; es decir, la forma pero pocas veces lograron penetrar en el espiritu que las anima. Mas claro, procuraron imitar el estilo, pero no se cuidaron de imitar la valentía del pensamiento. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.