The Works of Horace: Translated Into English Verse, with a Life and Notes, Volume 2W. Blackwoods, 1881 |
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... town ; how , at parties , my stare Of asinine silence , and languishing air , The tempest of sighs from the depths of my breast , All the love - stricken swain to my comrades confessed . " No genius , " I groaned , whilst you kindly ...
... town ; how , at parties , my stare Of asinine silence , and languishing air , The tempest of sighs from the depths of my breast , All the love - stricken swain to my comrades confessed . " No genius , " I groaned , whilst you kindly ...
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... town ? Where then my gain , that with my gold I bribed Pelignian beldames old , Or mastered , by their aid , the gift To mingle poisons sure and swift ? You'd have a speedy doom ? But no , It 30 [ EPODE XVII . Canidia's Reply .
... town ? Where then my gain , that with my gold I bribed Pelignian beldames old , Or mastered , by their aid , the gift To mingle poisons sure and swift ? You'd have a speedy doom ? But no , It 30 [ EPODE XVII . Canidia's Reply .
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... town in the neighbourhood of Præneste , the modern Palestrina . Although the contemporary of Virgil and Horace , and intimate with the latter , there is no evidence that he had attracted the notice either of Mæcenas or Augustus . His ...
... town in the neighbourhood of Præneste , the modern Palestrina . Although the contemporary of Virgil and Horace , and intimate with the latter , there is no evidence that he had attracted the notice either of Mæcenas or Augustus . His ...
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... town ; If all unscathed through Ilion's flames they sped By sage Æneas led , And o'er the ocean - waves in safety fled , Destined from him , though of his home bereft , A nobler dower to take , than all that they had left ! Ye powers ...
... town ; If all unscathed through Ilion's flames they sped By sage Æneas led , And o'er the ocean - waves in safety fled , Destined from him , though of his home bereft , A nobler dower to take , than all that they had left ! Ye powers ...
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... his doors ; Whilst he , by business dragged to town From farmy field and breezy down , Vows happiness is only theirs , Who dwell in crowded streets and squares . The cases of this kind we see , So multitudinous THE SATIRES-BOOK I ,
... his doors ; Whilst he , by business dragged to town From farmy field and breezy down , Vows happiness is only theirs , Who dwell in crowded streets and squares . The cases of this kind we see , So multitudinous THE SATIRES-BOOK I ,
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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.