But Catullus is too genuine and sincere a man, too natural in his enjoyments, and too healthy in all his moods, to be taken as an example of this Distempered type of genius.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
No Distempered fancies or regrets, no vague longings for some unattainable rapture, coloured the natural aspect which the world presented to his eyes and mind.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
He probably placed full confidence in them himself; they either being the work of his own Distempered brain, or having been put into his head by others for their own purposes.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston