The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & brothers, 1846 - 681 pages |
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Page vi
... praised for possessing the very qualities that were deemed objectionable by some of his own countrymen . It was thought that the classical student required a great deal of assistance in his earlier progress , a great deal of light in ...
... praised for possessing the very qualities that were deemed objectionable by some of his own countrymen . It was thought that the classical student required a great deal of assistance in his earlier progress , a great deal of light in ...
Page vii
... praise , the father who could appropri- ate his scanty savings to so noble an end , or the son who could make mention of that father's care of his earlier years with such manly gratitude and candour . Orbilius Pupillus , an eminent ...
... praise , the father who could appropri- ate his scanty savings to so noble an end , or the son who could make mention of that father's care of his earlier years with such manly gratitude and candour . Orbilius Pupillus , an eminent ...
Page x
... praise of the man who could prefer his hum- ble abode on the Esquiline , the summer air of Praeneste , his villa at Tibur , or his Sabine farm to all the splendours of af- fluence ; and who , in writing to his friend Licinius , could so ...
... praise of the man who could prefer his hum- ble abode on the Esquiline , the summer air of Praeneste , his villa at Tibur , or his Sabine farm to all the splendours of af- fluence ; and who , in writing to his friend Licinius , could so ...
Page xii
... praise - worthy and valuable to redeem his er rors . " แ ' Horace , of all the writers of antiquity , most abounds with that practical good sense , and familiar observation of life and manners which render an author , in a more empha ...
... praise - worthy and valuable to redeem his er rors . " แ ' Horace , of all the writers of antiquity , most abounds with that practical good sense , and familiar observation of life and manners which render an author , in a more empha ...
Page 275
... Praises a retired life , and the rural scenery around his native place . " - 18. Pauperiem . " The pressure of contracted means . " Horace and the best Latin writers understand by pauperies and paupertas , not absolute poverty , which ...
... Praises a retired life , and the rural scenery around his native place . " - 18. Pauperiem . " The pressure of contracted means . " Horace and the best Latin writers understand by pauperies and paupertas , not absolute poverty , which ...
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