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... society : the management of life Influences in Horace's poetry His tastes in art and literature CHAPTER II . THE SATIRES . I. The Satires and Epistles the expression of Horace's familiar moods Horace's purpose in the Satires ...
... society : the management of life Influences in Horace's poetry His tastes in art and literature CHAPTER II . THE SATIRES . I. The Satires and Epistles the expression of Horace's familiar moods Horace's purpose in the Satires ...
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... society · Political Epodes : Epod . 16 a lament after the civil wars : its poetical character · Cleopatra : Epod . 9 . · The more gentle poems among the Epodes : Maecenas : the virtue of wine Praise of a country life : Epod . 2 ...
... society · Political Epodes : Epod . 16 a lament after the civil wars : its poetical character · Cleopatra : Epod . 9 . · The more gentle poems among the Epodes : Maecenas : the virtue of wine Praise of a country life : Epod . 2 ...
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... society , and exuberance of fancy • 332 The Heroides : matter and form of Ovid's heroic epistles : their rhetorical and modern character . · 333 Spurious epistles 334 Ovid's heroines . · 335 Picturesque , romantic , and pathetic ...
... society , and exuberance of fancy • 332 The Heroides : matter and form of Ovid's heroic epistles : their rhetorical and modern character . · 333 Spurious epistles 334 Ovid's heroines . · 335 Picturesque , romantic , and pathetic ...
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... society , and an imaginative artist ( Amores iii . 1 ) : the Muses of Elegy and Tragedy · Ovid's essay in tragedy : the Medea · 344 · 345 Failure of tragedy in Rome 345 Ovid's strength and weakness in dealing with mythological and ...
... society , and an imaginative artist ( Amores iii . 1 ) : the Muses of Elegy and Tragedy · Ovid's essay in tragedy : the Medea · 344 · 345 Failure of tragedy in Rome 345 Ovid's strength and weakness in dealing with mythological and ...
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... society which liked him well . Though still industrious , he did not , as at school , waste his youth on books and nothing but books . He rode , he played cricket and whist , in which he excelled . Among others of his acquaintances was ...
... society which liked him well . Though still industrious , he did not , as at school , waste his youth on books and nothing but books . He rode , he played cricket and whist , in which he excelled . Among others of his acquaintances was ...
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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.