Odes and EpodesB.H. Sanborn & Company, 1898 - 487 pages |
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Page xii
... fortune stripped , Turned me adrift , through poverty grown rash , At the versemonger's craft I made a dash . ' - Martin . The next few years were the hardest of Horace's life . He supported himself , according to Suetonius , by means ...
... fortune stripped , Turned me adrift , through poverty grown rash , At the versemonger's craft I made a dash . ' - Martin . The next few years were the hardest of Horace's life . He supported himself , according to Suetonius , by means ...
Page xxii
... fortune , love , and fame ; the flight of time , the steep path of virtue , eating cares , the horn of plenty , the lash of the tongue , the waves or the hail , the vessel of wit , the bridle of license , the war of winds and waves ...
... fortune , love , and fame ; the flight of time , the steep path of virtue , eating cares , the horn of plenty , the lash of the tongue , the waves or the hail , the vessel of wit , the bridle of license , the war of winds and waves ...
Page 168
... fortunes . 28. certus : unerring , vnμepths . Cf. Pind . Pyth . 9. 46 , 3. 29 . In 1. 12. 23 certus = άpуктоs . For the oracle , cf. Eurip . Hel . 146 . 29. ambiguam : cf. 2. 5. 24. So that when Salamis was named men would ask , Which ...
... fortunes . 28. certus : unerring , vnμepths . Cf. Pind . Pyth . 9. 46 , 3. 29 . In 1. 12. 23 certus = άpуктоs . For the oracle , cf. Eurip . Hel . 146 . 29. ambiguam : cf. 2. 5. 24. So that when Salamis was named men would ask , Which ...
Page 193
... fortune emptied all her horn . ' benigno : cf. 1 . 9. 6. n . 16. honorum : cf. Sat. 2. 5. 13 , et quoscunque feret cultus tibi fundus honores ; Stat . Theb . 10. 788 , veris honor ; Epode 11. 6 ; Spenser , Muiopotmos , gatheréd more ...
... fortune emptied all her horn . ' benigno : cf. 1 . 9. 6. n . 16. honorum : cf. Sat. 2. 5. 13 , et quoscunque feret cultus tibi fundus honores ; Stat . Theb . 10. 788 , veris honor ; Epode 11. 6 ; Spenser , Muiopotmos , gatheréd more ...
Page 216
... fortune in the camp of Caesar . 1. beatis for transferred epithet , cf. ' perfumes of price | Robb'd from the happy shrubs of Araby ' ( William Browne , Book 2. Song 3 ) . - nunc : i.e. after a life of study . The position italicizes in ...
... fortune in the camp of Caesar . 1. beatis for transferred epithet , cf. ' perfumes of price | Robb'd from the happy shrubs of Araby ' ( William Browne , Book 2. Song 3 ) . - nunc : i.e. after a life of study . The position italicizes in ...
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Page 245 - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
Page 423 - ... is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ; The Plough-boy is whooping anon, anon.
Page 479 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 473 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Page 438 - When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain.
Page 318 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Page 339 - For other things mild Heaven a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
Page 236 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boasting as the Gentiles use Or lesser breeds without the law, Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
Page 250 - Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin ; Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin.
Page 107 - Cum semel occideris et de te splendida Minos Fecerit arbitria, Non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te Restituet pietas.