(14) From In Memoriam 107:

Fiercely flies

The blast of North and East, and ice
Makes daggers at the sharpen'd eaves.

But fetch the wine,

Arrange the board and brim the glass;

Bring in great logs and let them lie,
To make a solid core of heat.

See Carm. 1. 9. 1-8:

Vides ut alta stet nive candidum
Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus
Silvae laborantes, geluque

Flumina constiterint acuto.
Dissolve frigus ligna super foco
Large reponens atque benignius
Deprome quadrimum Sabina,
O Thaliarche, merum diota.

(15) From In Memoriam 89:

And break the livelong summer day
With banquet in the distant woods.

See Carm. 2. 7. 6-7:

Cum quo morantem saepe diem mero
Fregi.

(16) From Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind:

To arm in proof, and guard about

With triple-mailèd trust.

This is clearly an echo of Horace's aes triplex (Carm. 1. 3. 9); but the idea has become so familiar that one cannot say whether the particular instance is a direct reminiscence, or comes through an intermediary.

(17) From Morte D'Arthur:

Till on to dawn, when dreams
Begin to feel the truth and stir of day.

See Serm. 1. 10. 33:

(18) From To

Post mediam noctem,

cum somnia vera.

-, after Reading a Life and Letters:
Keep nothing sacred: 'tis but just
The many-headed beast should know.

See Epist. 1. 1. 76:

Belua multorum es capitum.

The similarity is unmistakable; but, as before (p. 88), the phrase is almost a commonplace.

(19) From The Princess 1:

Whate'er my grief to find her less than fame.

See Epist. 1. 11. 3:

Maiora minorave fama.

(20) From Locksley Hall:

Great Orion sloping slowly to the West.

See Carm. 3. 27. 18:

Pronus Orion.

(The first meaning of pronus is 'inclined forward'.)

(21) From The Marriage of Geraint:

(24) From The Cup 1. 1:

No rushing on the game-the net-the net.

Hallam Tennyson gives a reference to Carm. 1. 1. 28:

Seu rupit teretes Marsus aper plagas

(25) From In Memoriam 115:

The happy birds that change their sky

See Epist. 1. 11. 27: caelum, non animum mutant.

ROBERT BROWNING

I. Unquestionable traces of Horace

(1) From The Inn Album 7:

But ne trucidet coram populo

Iuvenis senem! Right the Horatian rule!

See Ars Poet. 185:

Ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet.

Here, as frequently, Browning alters the Horatian line to fit the situation.

(2) From Pacchiarotto, stanza 16:

The paraphrase—which I much need-is

From Horace per ignes incedis.

See Carm. 2. 1.7: incedis per ignis.

(3) The title of the poem Instans Tyrannus comes from Carm.

3. 3. 3: instantis tyranni.

(4) From The Statue and the Bust:

See Serm. 1. 1. 69-70.

How strive you? De te fabula!

(5) From Parleyings with Certain People of Importance (Parleyings with George Bubb Dodington, stanza 6):

In armor, true aes triplex, breast and back
Binding about.

See Carm. 1. 3. 9-10:

Circa pectus erat.

Aes triplex

(6) In the same section of the same poem we read:

Triply cased in brass

a reference, of course, to the same Horatian phrase.

(7) From The Two Poets of Croisic, stanza 75:

(8) From The Two Poets of Croisic, stanza 75:

Leisurely works mark the divinior mens.

See Serm. 1. 4. 43:

Mens divinior.

(9) The same phrase is found in the same poem, 1. 38:

Nec sit marita, quae rotundioribus
Onusta bacis ambulet.

(11) From The Ring and the Book 9:

When here comes tripping Flaccus with his phrase,

"Trust me, no miscreant singled from the mob,

Crede non illum tibi de scelesta

Plebe delectum.'

See Carm. 2. 4. 17-18:

Crede non illam tibi de scelesta
Plebe dilectam.

(12) From The Ring and the Book 9:

Law that hath listened while the lyrist sang

Lene tormentum ingenio admoves,

Gently thou joggest by a twinge the wit,
Plerumque duro, else were slow to blab!

See Carm. 3. 21. 13-14.

(13) From The Ring and the Book 8:

See Serm. 2. 7. 116.

Where's a stone?

Unde mi lapidem, where darts for me?
Unde sagittas?

(For mi read mihi.)

(14) From The Ring and the Book 8:

See Epod. 1. 31.

Satis superque, both enough and to spare.

(15) From The Ring and the Book 5:

See Serm. 1. 4. 10.

Nor look that I shall give it, for a grace,
Stans pede in uno.

(16) From The Ring and the Book 9:

Insanit homo, threat succeeds to threat

See Serm. 2. 7. 117.

(17) From The Ring and the Book 9:
And thus I end, tenax proposito.

See Carm. 3. 3. 1: tenacem propositi.
(18) From The Ring and the Book 9:

Solvuntur tabulae? May we laugh and go?

See Serm. 2. 1. 86:

Solventur risu tabulae, tu missus abibis.

(19) From The Ring and the Book 9:

Quid vetat, what forbids, I aptly ask,
With Horace.

See Serm. 1. 1. 25 and 1. 10. 56.

(20) From The Ring and the Book 4:

Notum tonsoribus! To the Tonsor then!

See Serm. 1. 7. 3:

Et lippis notum et tonsoribus.

(21) From The Ring and the Book 2:

Barbers and blear-eyed, as the ancient sings.

See the preceding reference.

(22) From The Ring and the Book 8:

These are reality, and all else,—fluff,

Nutshell, and naught,—thank Flaccus for the phrase!

The reference must be to Serm. 2. 5. 35-36:

Eripiet quivis oculos citius mihi, quam te
Contemptum cassa nuce pauperet.

(23) From The Ring and the Book 8:

By mutilation of each paramour—
As Galba in the Horatian satire grieved.

See Serm. 1. 2. 45-46 for the reference.
(24) From The Ring and the Book 9:

Whereupon,

As Flaccus prompts, I dare the epic plunge.