He does not attempt to reproduce the picturesque life represented by Homer, nor the majestic passions imagined by the Attic tragedians, but he has his own vision of the stately and beautiful figures belonging to an ideal Foretime,- O nimis optato saeclorum tempore nati Heroes, saluete, deum genus.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
"So he sat and sang, like unto a seer out of the Foretime to look upon; Jeremiah, the Ancient, seemed to have risen out of his grave.
"Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold"
Matthew Arnold
And this is the prophecy, written right bold On a parchment all tattered and yellow and old; So old and so tattered that nobody knows How far into Foretime its origin goes.
"The Glugs of Gosh"
C. J. Dennis