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... probably be thought deficient in warmth and taste by some who , having only a general and dreamy acquaintance with Horace , the reflection in many instances of slovenly teaching in boyhood , have been accustomed to find beauties where I ...
... probably be thought deficient in warmth and taste by some who , having only a general and dreamy acquaintance with Horace , the reflection in many instances of slovenly teaching in boyhood , have been accustomed to find beauties where I ...
Page xxi
... probably a small one , near Venusia . We hear nothing of his mother , except that Horace speaks of both his parents with affection . His father , probably seeing signs of talent in him as a child , was not content to have him educated ...
... probably a small one , near Venusia . We hear nothing of his mother , except that Horace speaks of both his parents with affection . His father , probably seeing signs of talent in him as a child , was not content to have him educated ...
Page xxiv
... probably published till the end of 724 or the beginning of the next year , when Horace was about thirty - five years old . When Augustus returned from Asia , in A.U.C. 725 , and closed the gates of Janus , being the acknowledged head of ...
... probably published till the end of 724 or the beginning of the next year , when Horace was about thirty - five years old . When Augustus returned from Asia , in A.U.C. 725 , and closed the gates of Janus , being the acknowledged head of ...
Page xxv
... probably in A.U.C. 734 or 735 . He seems to have taken up the study of the Greek philoso- phical writers , and to have got a good deal interested in them , and also to have become a little tired of the world and disgusted with the ...
... probably in A.U.C. 734 or 735 . He seems to have taken up the study of the Greek philoso- phical writers , and to have got a good deal interested in them , and also to have become a little tired of the world and disgusted with the ...
Page xxvii
... probably never have been acknowledged or discovered by Horace but for the feeling his criticism of that writer raised against himself . He was of an indolent habit , of which the unfinished state of some of his poems is one of the ...
... probably never have been acknowledged or discovered by Horace but for the feeling his criticism of that writer raised against himself . He was of an indolent habit , of which the unfinished state of some of his poems is one of the ...
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Page 305 - The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
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