The Works of Horace: Translated Into English Verse, with a Life and Notes, Volume 2W. Blackwoods, 1881 |
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Page 12
... common harlot's bed Seems with some rare Nepenthe spread , For there he lies in swinish drowse , Of me oblivious , and his vows ! He is , aha ! protected well By some more skilful witch's spell ! But , Varus , thou ( doomed soon to know ...
... common harlot's bed Seems with some rare Nepenthe spread , For there he lies in swinish drowse , Of me oblivious , and his vows ! He is , aha ! protected well By some more skilful witch's spell ! But , Varus , thou ( doomed soon to know ...
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... common in the robuster sex . Why denounce the curiosity of poor , simple , ill - taught Leuconöe , and let that of Agrippa , the statesman and warrior , go free ? ODE XVI . , page 29 . Dindymené herself , & c . Cybele , an Asiatic ...
... common in the robuster sex . Why denounce the curiosity of poor , simple , ill - taught Leuconöe , and let that of Agrippa , the statesman and warrior , go free ? ODE XVI . , page 29 . Dindymené herself , & c . Cybele , an Asiatic ...
Page 45
... common reader . The lady , it is to be surmised , was no Lucretia ; and solus cum sola , says the canon , non presumitur orare ; least of all when , as in this case , the gentle- man undertakes to console the lady for the cruel usage of ...
... common reader . The lady , it is to be surmised , was no Lucretia ; and solus cum sola , says the canon , non presumitur orare ; least of all when , as in this case , the gentle- man undertakes to console the lady for the cruel usage of ...
Page 47
... common , however , other passages of the same poet leave no doubt . At the close of Elegy x . Book I. , contrasting the times of peace with those of war , he writes thus : - " But then flame Venus ' wars ; and battered doors And tresses ...
... common , however , other passages of the same poet leave no doubt . At the close of Elegy x . Book I. , contrasting the times of peace with those of war , he writes thus : - " But then flame Venus ' wars ; and battered doors And tresses ...
Page 55
... of mere desire on the one side , and of mercenary advan- tage on the other . Still through their pictures we come to know the Romans on the side of their affections . There we are on common ground with them . We feel with them as Book I.
... of mere desire on the one side , and of mercenary advan- tage on the other . Still through their pictures we come to know the Romans on the side of their affections . There we are on common ground with them . We feel with them as Book I.
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Page 296 - Passages which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as he thinks, successfully in his own flowing versification, at length come home to him when long years have passed and he has had experience of life, and pierce him as if he had never before known them with their sad earnestness and vivid exactness.