The works of Horace, Volume 1W. Flexney, Mess. Johnson, and T. Caslon, 1767 |
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... three or four applauded perfons , I must fairly anfwer , that I made my verfion of Horace for the fame reafon , as he wrote the original , -Paupertas impulit audax Ut verfus facerem- A 3 I I had another , however , and far nobler motive.
... three or four applauded perfons , I must fairly anfwer , that I made my verfion of Horace for the fame reafon , as he wrote the original , -Paupertas impulit audax Ut verfus facerem- A 3 I I had another , however , and far nobler motive.
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... fame . I have alfo had the honour to infift upon the like merit before fome of the beft writers of the age in the following Odes of the fecond and third Books , viz . the eighth , ninth , tenth , eighteenth and twentieth of the former ...
... fame . I have alfo had the honour to infift upon the like merit before fome of the beft writers of the age in the following Odes of the fecond and third Books , viz . the eighth , ninth , tenth , eighteenth and twentieth of the former ...
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... Whene'er the magiftrate prefers Things honeft to his private ends , And bribing villains with a look deters , And draws against the crowd , and his fair fame defends . And And lastly what elegance and ftrokes of the mafter here XX PREFACE .
... Whene'er the magiftrate prefers Things honeft to his private ends , And bribing villains with a look deters , And draws against the crowd , and his fair fame defends . And And lastly what elegance and ftrokes of the mafter here XX PREFACE .
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... fame , beneath the sky : At once by gift and conduct too As finely turn'd , as polifh'd true , So that no rub or greater force Retard him in his level course Gainst whom dame Fortune is at fault , * Whene'er fhe makes her worst affault ...
... fame , beneath the sky : At once by gift and conduct too As finely turn'd , as polifh'd true , So that no rub or greater force Retard him in his level course Gainst whom dame Fortune is at fault , * Whene'er fhe makes her worst affault ...
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... ) Horace gives himself a flap of the face ; for he does much the fame thing in the second ode of the first book , at the third stanza , and the truth of the Deluge I ( which ( which Ovid was nearer to knowing than Horace ) PREFACE . xxvii.
... ) Horace gives himself a flap of the face ; for he does much the fame thing in the second ode of the first book , at the third stanza , and the truth of the Deluge I ( which ( which Ovid was nearer to knowing than Horace ) PREFACE . xxvii.
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