See Ars Poet. 21-22:

Amphora coepit

Institui; currente rota cur urceus exit?

(39) From an autograph album, inscribed under

Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus, inter amicos

Ut numquam inducant animum cantare rogati,
Iniussi numquam desistant.

[Serm. 1. 3. 1-3]:

All singers, trust me, have this common vice,
To sing 'mid friends you'll have to ask them twice.

If you don't ask them 'tis another thing,

Until the judgment day be sure they'll sing.

(40) From Imperante Augusto Natus Est:

Well may the poet-people each with each
Vie in his [Caesar's] praise, our company of swans,
Virgil and Horace, singers-in their way—
Nearly as good as Varius, though less famed:

Well may they cry, 'No mortal, plainly God!'

Horace celebrates Augustus many times. The idea of the emperor's divinity may be found in Carm. 1. 2. 41-45:

Browning was not judging the poets in his own person, but under the assumed guise of their Roman contemporary.

For the sake of completeness I append one or two colorless refer

ences:

(41) From The Ring and the Book 1:

Vulgarized Horace for the use of schools.

(42) From Parleyings with Certain People of Importance (Parleyings with Christopher Smart, stanza 8):

Smart's who translated Horace.

II. Probable traces of Horace

(1) From Pauline:

Such lays

As straight encircle men with praise and love,

So I should not die utterly.

See Carm. 3. 30. 6 (referring to the immortality of verse):

Non omnis moriar.

(2) From The Ring and the Book 9:

"Tis Guido henceforth guides Pompilia's step,
Cries, 'No more friskings o'er the fruitful glebe.'

We seek not there should lapse the natural law,
The proper piety to lord and king

And husband: let the heifer bear the yoke!

See Carm. 2. 5. 1 ff.:

Nondum subacta ferre iugum valet
Cervice.

Circa virentis est animus tuae
Campos iuvencae.

(3) From The Ring and the Book 12:

Who knows,

On what pretence of busy idleness?

See Epist. 1. 11. 28:

Strenua nos exercet inertia.

(4) From The Ring and the Book 9:

Her own chastity, a triple mail.

See Carm. 1. 3. 9: aes triplex.

(5) From Sordello 2:

His Highness knew what poets were: in brief,
Had not the tetchy race prescriptive right
To peevishness, caprice?

See Epist. 2. 2. 102: genus irritabile vatum.

(6) From The First-Born of Egypt:

Israel's God, whose red hand had avenged

His servants' cause so fearfully.

See Carm. 1. 2. 2-3: pater

rubente dextera.

(7) From a letter to Elizabeth Barrett, March 30, 1846 (referring to A Soul's Tragedy):

Filing is quite another process from hammering, and a more difficult one. Note that 'filing' is the wrong word.

See Ars Poet. 290-291:

Si non offenderet unum

Quemque poetarum limae labor et mora.

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