The Art of poetry of Horace, with free and explanatory tr. in prose and verse by D. Bagot |
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... bring Plumage from birds of every coloured wing , So that a handsome female face should Down to a fish of hideous form below , Could you , this picture if allowed to see , grow Gaze on the sight and keep from laughter free ? Believe me ...
... bring Plumage from birds of every coloured wing , So that a handsome female face should Down to a fish of hideous form below , Could you , this picture if allowed to see , grow Gaze on the sight and keep from laughter free ? Believe me ...
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... bring forward into use a word which bears the impression of the current stamp , or which is formed in compliance with the idiom prevailing at the time . As woods are changed with respect to their leaves as years decline — those of ...
... bring forward into use a word which bears the impression of the current stamp , or which is formed in compliance with the idiom prevailing at the time . As woods are changed with respect to their leaves as years decline — those of ...
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... brings out these emotions of the mind into vocal expression by the tongue as the soul's interpreter . If what is spoken shall not harmonise with the rank and circumstances of the speaker , Roman knights and plebeians will strike up a ...
... brings out these emotions of the mind into vocal expression by the tongue as the soul's interpreter . If what is spoken shall not harmonise with the rank and circumstances of the speaker , Roman knights and plebeians will strike up a ...
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... brings , With heaving pain our anguished souls she wrings ; Then , when she forms these motions in the mind , By language next to others they're defined . If what is said won't suit the speaker's state , A peal of laughter's heard from ...
... brings , With heaving pain our anguished souls she wrings ; Then , when she forms these motions in the mind , By language next to others they're defined . If what is said won't suit the speaker's state , A peal of laughter's heard from ...
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... reducing the ' Iliad ' into acts , than if you are the first to bring forward themes which are unknown , and which have not been treated by any former poet . A subject which has agreeable to their History . 25 Impetuous passion surging in.
... reducing the ' Iliad ' into acts , than if you are the first to bring forward themes which are unknown , and which have not been treated by any former poet . A subject which has agreeable to their History . 25 Impetuous passion surging in.
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Popular passages
Page 14 - Aquilonibus arcet, regis opus, sterilisve diu palus aptaque remis 65 vicinas urbes alit et grave sentit aratrum, seu cursum mutavit iniquum frugibus amnis, doctus iter melius : mortalia facta peribunt ; nedum sermonum stet honos et gratia vivax. multa renascentur quae iam cecidere, cadentque 70 quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi.
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 10 - Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter ; Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si Graeco fonte cadent, parce detorta.
Page 64 - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 30 - Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet, Primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum. Tu quid ego et populus mecum desideret audi : Si plausoris eges aulaea manentis et usque Sessuri donec cantor ' Vos plaudite' dicat, Aetatis cujusque notandi sunt tibi mores, Mobilibusque decor naturis dandus et annis.
Page 56 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Page 28 - Trojanum orditur ab ovo ; Semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit, et quae Desperat tractata nitescere posse relinquit ; 150 Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet, Primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum.
Page 80 - Offendam in nugis?' Hae nugae seria ducent In mala derisum semel exceptumque sinistre. Ut mala quem scabies aut morbus regius urget Aut fanaticus error et iracunda Diana, Vesanum tetigisse timent fugiuntque poetam, 455 Qui sapiunt; agitant pueri incautique sequuntur. Hie, dum sublimis versus ructatur et errat, Si veluti merulis intentus decidit auceps In puteum foveamve, licet, ' Succurrite,
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 34 - Multa recedentes adimunt. Ne forte seniles Mandentur juveni partes pueroque viriles, Semper in adjunctis aevoque morabimur aptis. Aut agitur res in scenis, aut acta refertur.