The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & brothers, 1846 - 681 pages |
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Page xi
... regard the death of Horace as having been hastened by his own voluntary act . He died at the age of fifty - seven , and his remains were deposited on the Esquiline Hill , near the tomb of Mae- cenas . The works of Horace consist of four ...
... regard the death of Horace as having been hastened by his own voluntary act . He died at the age of fifty - seven , and his remains were deposited on the Esquiline Hill , near the tomb of Mae- cenas . The works of Horace consist of four ...
Page xvi
... regard to uniformity . ( Vid . Senec . Oedip . , act 1. Troades , act 4. Herc . Fur . , act 3. Thyest . , act 3. ) 5. IAMBIC TRIMETER . Iambic verses take their name from the Iambus , ' which in pure Iambics , was the only foot admitted ...
... regard to uniformity . ( Vid . Senec . Oedip . , act 1. Troades , act 4. Herc . Fur . , act 3. Thyest . , act 3. ) 5. IAMBIC TRIMETER . Iambic verses take their name from the Iambus , ' which in pure Iambics , was the only foot admitted ...
Page xxii
... regard to the caesura of the foot , it is worth notic- ing , that in the Greek Sapphics there is no necessity for any conjunction of the component feet by caesura , but every foot may be terminated by an entire word . This freedom forms ...
... regard to the caesura of the foot , it is worth notic- ing , that in the Greek Sapphics there is no necessity for any conjunction of the component feet by caesura , but every foot may be terminated by an entire word . This freedom forms ...
Page xxiii
... regard compound words only , and not simple ones . The ode of Horace ( 4. 2. ) which begins Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari Iule furnishes no exception to this remark . A Synaeresis operates in lule , which must be read as if written ...
... regard compound words only , and not simple ones . The ode of Horace ( 4. 2. ) which begins Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari Iule furnishes no exception to this remark . A Synaeresis operates in lule , which must be read as if written ...
Page 282
... regards the apparent want of connection between this por- tion of the ode and that which immediately precedes , compare what has been said in the introductory remarks . - 15 . Inchoare . " Day after day to renew . " - 16 . Jam te premet ...
... regards the apparent want of connection between this por- tion of the ode and that which immediately precedes , compare what has been said in the introductory remarks . - 15 . Inchoare . " Day after day to renew . " - 16 . Jam te premet ...
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