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... composition was not his forte . ' Don't you think , Sellar , you may have a genius for mathe- matics ? ' his tutor asked him ( as he used to tell ) , after considering a very elaborate essay in Greek verse . Of the Edinburgh Academy ...
... composition was not his forte . ' Don't you think , Sellar , you may have a genius for mathe- matics ? ' his tutor asked him ( as he used to tell ) , after considering a very elaborate essay in Greek verse . Of the Edinburgh Academy ...
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... composition of Greek verses to be numbered among Greek poets , till warned from so preposterous a purpose by what he poetically calls a vision of Romulus , but what prosaically may be regarded as the sugges- tion of his own common sense ...
... composition of Greek verses to be numbered among Greek poets , till warned from so preposterous a purpose by what he poetically calls a vision of Romulus , but what prosaically may be regarded as the sugges- tion of his own common sense ...
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... find expression in some of the earliest of his lyrical compositions . C In the sixteenth Epode , written probably during the short § 1 ] 17 HORACE IN THE ARMY OF BRUTUS Education in Rome and Athens Horace in the army of Brutus.
... find expression in some of the earliest of his lyrical compositions . C In the sixteenth Epode , written probably during the short § 1 ] 17 HORACE IN THE ARMY OF BRUTUS Education in Rome and Athens Horace in the army of Brutus.
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... compositions may have exposed him to the charge of having too soon and too absolutely despaired of the Republic . Yet they are written in a spirit the very opposite of the gay and careless tone in which a few years later he expresses ...
... compositions may have exposed him to the charge of having too soon and too absolutely despaired of the Republic . Yet they are written in a spirit the very opposite of the gay and careless tone in which a few years later he expresses ...
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... compositions which were written after Horace became the intimate friend of Maecenas . Coincidently with this change in tone and temper we find that he attaches himself in literature more to his own countryman the ' comis et urbanus ...
... compositions which were written after Horace became the intimate friend of Maecenas . Coincidently with this change in tone and temper we find that he attaches himself in literature more to his own countryman the ' comis et urbanus ...
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Page 114 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Page xxvii - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Page 302 - Ordiar et caeso moenia firma Remo, Eductosque pares silvestri ex ubere reges, Crescet et ingenium sub tua iussa meum...
Page 168 - Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui deorum Muneribus sapienter uti Duramque callet pauperiem pati Peiusque leto flagitium timet, Non ille pro caris amicis Aut patria timidus perire.
Page 318 - ... nec tibi clamatae somnus amarus erit. sola eris et solos spectabis, Cynthia, montes et pecus et fines pauperis agricolae. illic te nulli poterunt corrumpere ludi, fanaque peccatis plurima causa tuis. 10 illic assidue tauros spectabis arantes, et vitem docta ponere falce comas ; atque ibi rara feres inculto tura sacello, haedus ubi agrestes corruet ante focos ; protinus et nuda choreas imitabere sura ; omnia ab externo sint modo tuta viro.
Page 315 - ... niger clauderet ora liquor : 'Di maris Aegaei quos sunt penes aequora, Venti, Et quaecumque meum degravat unda caput, Quo rapitis miseros tenerae lanuginis annos?
Page 111 - Vivere si recte nescis decede peritis. Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti : Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius aequo Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.
Page 243 - Messalla meus, cui dulcia poma Delia selectis detrahat arboribus: Et tantum venerata virum, hunc sedula curet, Huic paret atque epulas ipsa ministra gerat.