The Works of Horace: Translated Into English Verse, with a Life and Notes, Volume 2W. Blackwoods, 1881 |
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... hold such knaves in scorn , And bear , their wretched sides to gore , A sharp and ready horn ; Like him whose joys Lycambes dashed , Defrauding of his bride , Or him , who with his satire lashed Old Bupalus till he died . What ! If a ...
... hold such knaves in scorn , And bear , their wretched sides to gore , A sharp and ready horn ; Like him whose joys Lycambes dashed , Defrauding of his bride , Or him , who with his satire lashed Old Bupalus till he died . What ! If a ...
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... hold your lives unworthily , No better counsel can I urge , than that which erst inspired The stout Phocęans when from their doomed city they retired , Their fields , their household gods , their shrines surrendering as a prey To the ...
... hold your lives unworthily , No better counsel can I urge , than that which erst inspired The stout Phocęans when from their doomed city they retired , Their fields , their household gods , their shrines surrendering as a prey To the ...
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... hold , That in the stag's endearments the tigress shall delight , And the turtle - dove adulterate with the falcon and the kite , That unsuspicious herds no more shall tawny lions fear , And the he - goat , smoothly sleek of skin ...
... hold , That in the stag's endearments the tigress shall delight , And the turtle - dove adulterate with the falcon and the kite , That unsuspicious herds no more shall tawny lions fear , And the he - goat , smoothly sleek of skin ...
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... holds me in its grasp . So am I vanquished , so recant , Unlucky wretch ! my creed , and grant , That Sabine spells can vex the wit , And heads by Marsic charms be split . What wouldst thou more ? O earth ! O sea ! Nor even Alcides ...
... holds me in its grasp . So am I vanquished , so recant , Unlucky wretch ! my creed , and grant , That Sabine spells can vex the wit , And heads by Marsic charms be split . What wouldst thou more ? O earth ! O sea ! Nor even Alcides ...
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... hold Her heart congealed , and make her pity cold . The ox , that lately did for shelter fly Into the stall , doth now securely lie In open fields ; and love no more is made By the fireside ; but in the cooler shade Amyntas now doth ...
... hold Her heart congealed , and make her pity cold . The ox , that lately did for shelter fly Into the stall , doth now securely lie In open fields ; and love no more is made By the fireside ; but in the cooler shade Amyntas now doth ...
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Page 78 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
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Page 53 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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Page 74 - How often have I stole forth in the coldest night in January, and found him in the garden, stuck like a dripping statue! There would he kneel to me in the snow, and sneeze and cough so pathetically! he shivering with cold, and I with apprehension! and while the freezing blast numbed our joints, how warmly would he press me to pity his flame, and glow with mutual ardour! Ah, Julia, that was something like being in love!
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.