The Art of poetry of Horace, with tr. in prose and verse by D. Bagot |
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... what are savage should coalesce with what are mild , not to the extent that serpents should be coupled with birds , or lambs with tigers . It generally happens that to lofty and pompous commence- ments , and such as make great and ...
... what are savage should coalesce with what are mild , not to the extent that serpents should be coupled with birds , or lambs with tigers . It generally happens that to lofty and pompous commence- ments , and such as make great and ...
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... what's fierce with what is mild , That savage beasts with tame be reconciled . To grand exordiums , and which promise much , There's often tacked some dazzling patchwork , such As when Diana's grove and altar shine LO 5 20 In glowing ...
... what's fierce with what is mild , That savage beasts with tame be reconciled . To grand exordiums , and which promise much , There's often tacked some dazzling patchwork , such As when Diana's grove and altar shine LO 5 20 In glowing ...
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... what you will , let it only be characterised by a simplicity and unity of design throughout . Most of us poets - I address you the father , and you young men worthy of having such a father - are deceived by the esti- mate which we form ...
... what you will , let it only be characterised by a simplicity and unity of design throughout . Most of us poets - I address you the father , and you young men worthy of having such a father - are deceived by the esti- mate which we form ...
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Faults in Style . Now let me say at what these precepts aim , From first to last be simple and the same . Most of us poets oft are led astray By what appears to us the better way . Concise and brief I wish my ...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Faults in Style . Now let me say at what these precepts aim , From first to last be simple and the same . Most of us poets oft are led astray By what appears to us the better way . Concise and brief I wish my ...
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... what your mental powers refuse , and what they are able to sustain . Neither eloquent fluency of language nor perspicuity of arrangement will desert that man whose theme shall have been selected in proportion to his ability , or with a ...
... what your mental powers refuse , and what they are able to sustain . Neither eloquent fluency of language nor perspicuity of arrangement will desert that man whose theme shall have been selected in proportion to his ability , or with a ...
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abstain actor animi animos ART OF POETRY aspiring atque Atreus audience banquet bombastic bring buskin Campus Martius character chorus Colchian comedy comic correct crowd delight Democritus drama Empedocles enim Ennius erit etiam facundia fame fault feel flow genius give pleasure gods Graiis grand Grecian hæc Homer honour Hunc iambic iambus idem indulgence instruction invent Ixion judicious kind kings language laws lyre Medea mind moral Multa muse nimium numbers nunc oculis passion Peleus Plautus play poem poemata poet's poetæ poetical compositions poets pompous praise Pythias quæ Quam quid quod raging recte Reddere rich risum Roman rules satyrs scenes scriptor semel semper sibi skill sound spectator spondees stage style tamen taste Telephus theme Thespis Thyestes tibi tone tragic verse trifles trimeters Trojan war uncia Versibus versus Verum vitæ what's wine wish words write
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Page 52 - Successit vetus his comoedia, non sine multa Laude ; sed in vitium libertas excidit et vim Dignam lege regi ; lex est accepta chorusque Turpiter obticuit sublato jure nocendi.
Page 4 - ... 10 scimus, et hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim; sed non ut placidis coeant immitia, non ut serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni. Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter...
Page 80 - Hoc, aiebat, et hoc.' Melius te posse negares Bis terque expertum frustra, delere jubebat 440 Et male tornatos incudi reddere versus. Si defendere delictum quam vertere malles, Nullum ultra verbum aut operam insumebat inanem, Quin sine rivali teque et tua solus amares. Vir bonus et prudens versus reprehendet inertes...
Page 48 - Spondees stabiles in jura paterna recepit Commodus et patiens, non ut de sede secunda Cederet aut quarta socialiter. Hie et in Acci Nobilibus trimetris apparet rarus, et Enni In scenam missos cum magno pondere versus 260 Aut operae celeris nimium curaque carentis Aut ignoratae premit artis crimine turpi.
Page 64 - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 24 - Si quid inexpertum scenae committis et audes Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet.
Page 18 - Interdum tamen et vocem comoedia tollit, Iratusque Chremes tumido delitigat ore ; Et tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri 95 Telephus et Peleus, cum pauper et exsul uterque Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba, Si curat cor spectantis tetigisse querela.
Page 50 - Graeca nocturna versate manu, versate diurna. at vestri proavi Plautinos et numeros et 270 laudavere sales ; nimium patienter utrumque, ne dicam stulte, mirati, si modo ego et vos scimus inurbanum lepido seponere dicto, legitimumque sonum digitis callemus et aure.
Page 70 - Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva ; 385 Id tibi judicium est, ea mens. Si quid tamen olim Scripseris, in Maeci descendat judicis aures Et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum, Membranis intus positis : delere licebit, Quod non edideris ; nescit vox missa reverti.
Page 26 - Publica materies privati juris erit, si Non circa vilem patulumque moraberis orbem, Nee verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus Interpres, nee desilies imitator in artum, Unde pedem proferre pudor vetet aut operis lex. 135 Nec sic incipies, ut scriptor cyclicus olim : " Fortunam Priami cantabo et nobile bellum.