The works of Horace: with English notesJ. Allyn, 1878 - 588 pages |
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Page viii
... give up a desperate cause and settle quietly at home . His patrimony , however , was forfeited , and he seems to have had no means of subsistence , which induced him to employ him- self in writing verses , with the view , perhaps , of ...
... give up a desperate cause and settle quietly at home . His patrimony , however , was forfeited , and he seems to have had no means of subsistence , which induced him to employ him- self in writing verses , with the view , perhaps , of ...
Page ix
... gives a description in his Epistle to Quintius ( i . 16 ) , and he appears to have lived there a part of every year , and to have been fond of the place , which was very quiet and retired , being four miles from the nearest town , Varia ...
... gives a description in his Epistle to Quintius ( i . 16 ) , and he appears to have lived there a part of every year , and to have been fond of the place , which was very quiet and retired , being four miles from the nearest town , Varia ...
Page 256
... gives much the same account of Mercurius in the fifth book of the Fasti ( 663 , sqq . ) . His description begins with the same apostrophe as this , ' Clare nepos Atlantis . ' ARGUMENT . - Mercury , thou who in their infancy didst tame ...
... gives much the same account of Mercurius in the fifth book of the Fasti ( 663 , sqq . ) . His description begins with the same apostrophe as this , ' Clare nepos Atlantis . ' ARGUMENT . - Mercury , thou who in their infancy didst tame ...
Page 258
... gives the full expression , Georg . iv . 50 : " Vocisque offensa resultat imago . " See C. i . 20. 8. Our verse - writers are fond of Horace's epithet , ' sportive echo ' 5. Heliconis oris ] Helico was a range of mountains in Boeotia ...
... gives the full expression , Georg . iv . 50 : " Vocisque offensa resultat imago . " See C. i . 20. 8. Our verse - writers are fond of Horace's epithet , ' sportive echo ' 5. Heliconis oris ] Helico was a range of mountains in Boeotia ...
Page 262
... give to man , he implanted in our hearts the lion's fury . Wrath laid Thyestes low , and hath brought proud cities to the dust . Be appeased . In the sweet season of youth I was tempted by hot blood to write those rash verses . I would ...
... give to man , he implanted in our hearts the lion's fury . Wrath laid Thyestes low , and hath brought proud cities to the dust . Be appeased . In the sweet season of youth I was tempted by hot blood to write those rash verses . I would ...
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Popular passages
Page 279 - For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Page 229 - Verum ita risores, ita commendare dicaces Conveniet Satyros, ita vertere seria ludo, Ne quicunque deus, quicunque adhibebitur heros, Regali conspectus in auro nuper et ostro, Migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas, Aut dum vitat humum nubes et inania captet.
Page 231 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons : rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.
Page 347 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 302 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 343 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 131 - Epidaurius? at tibi contra evenit, inquirant- vitia ut tua rursus et illi. iracundior est paulo, minus aptus acutis naribus horum hominum ; rideri possit eo quod 30 rusticius tonso toga defluit et male laxus in pede calceus haeret : at est bonus, ut melior vir non alius quisquam, at tibi amicus, at ingenium ingens inculto latet hoc sub corpore.
Page 9 - Sperne puer, neque tu choreas, Donee virenti canities abest Morosa. Nunc et campus et areae...
Page 91 - Noctilucam, prosperam frugum celeremque pronos volvere menses. 40 nupta iam dices : ' ego dis amicum, saeculo festas referente luces, reddidi carmen docilis modorum vatis Horati.' VII. Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae ; mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet...
Page 227 - Conversis studiis aetas animusque virilis quaerit opes et amicitias, inservit honori, commisisse cavet quod mox mutare laboret. Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, vel quod quaerit et inventis miser abstinet ac timet uti, vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat, dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti se puero, castigator censorque minorum.