The Works of Horace: Translated Into English Verse, with a Life and Notes, Volume 2W. Blackwoods, 1881 |
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... round about Declares she was , beyond a doubt . Now forth the fierce Canidia sprang , And still she gnawed with rotten fang * " For he by words could call out of the sky Both sun and moon , and make them him obey . " -Fairy Queen , III ...
... round about Declares she was , beyond a doubt . Now forth the fierce Canidia sprang , And still she gnawed with rotten fang * " For he by words could call out of the sky Both sun and moon , and make them him obey . " -Fairy Queen , III ...
Page 14
... round , Through drifted snows with ears thrown back , I'm ready , night or day , To follow fearless on the track Of every beast of prey . But you , when you have made the wood With 14 [ EPODE VI . To Cassius Severus .
... round , Through drifted snows with ears thrown back , I'm ready , night or day , To follow fearless on the track Of every beast of prey . But you , when you have made the wood With 14 [ EPODE VI . To Cassius Severus .
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... round the fold no surly bear its midnight prowl doth make , Nor teems the rank and heaving soil with the adder and the snake ; There no contagion smites the flocks , nor blight of any star With fury of remorseless heat the sweltering ...
... round the fold no surly bear its midnight prowl doth make , Nor teems the rank and heaving soil with the adder and the snake ; There no contagion smites the flocks , nor blight of any star With fury of remorseless heat the sweltering ...
Page 57
... round which a ring Of rustic lads and lasses blithe shall sing , ' Io ! Io ! good wines and plenteous harvest bring ! ' Now with the little that I have content , My steps are ne'er on toilsome journeys bent ; I shun the dog - star's ...
... round which a ring Of rustic lads and lasses blithe shall sing , ' Io ! Io ! good wines and plenteous harvest bring ! ' Now with the little that I have content , My steps are ne'er on toilsome journeys bent ; I shun the dog - star's ...
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... round , Once more our hymns shall sound , Once more our solemn festival be given , Through three glad days , devoted to thy rites , Three joyous days , and three not less delightsome nights ! And you , ye Sister Fates , Who truly do ...
... round , Once more our hymns shall sound , Once more our solemn festival be given , Through three glad days , devoted to thy rites , Three joyous days , and three not less delightsome nights ! And you , ye Sister Fates , Who truly do ...
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Aristippus Augustus bard battle of Actium beauty Book Cæsar Campania Catullus Celsus Albinovanus charm Cicero cried DAMASIPPUS Davus dear death delight doth dread Ennius Epistle EPODE eyes fame farm father fear fool Forum genius give gods Greek hand happy hear heart heir hills honour Horace Horace's Julius Cæsar Julius Florus keep king lines live Lucilius Mæcenas miles mind modern Muse ne'er never night numbers o'er pain plain play poem poet poet's Pomptine Marshes poor praise pray probably Propertius rich Roman Rome Sabine Satire SATIRE III SATIRE IV slave sleep song soul STERTINIUS sure sweet taste tell Temple Temple of Vesta thee things thou thought Tibullus Tibur TIRESIAS town true Twas Ulysses verse Virgil wealth Whilst wild wine wise words wretched write
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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.
Page 367 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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.
Page 302 - Garden; the very women of the town; the watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles; life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night; the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street; the crowds, the very dirt and mud, the sun shining upon houses and pavements, the...
Page 77 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more.
Page 40 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.
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.