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... Mæcenas . My chief aim has been to render the odes into English as literally as the laws of rhythm would allow ; and , with this view , I have generally adopted a metre , which has been not inaptly termed " the fatal facility of the ...
... Mæcenas . My chief aim has been to render the odes into English as literally as the laws of rhythm would allow ; and , with this view , I have generally adopted a metre , which has been not inaptly termed " the fatal facility of the ...
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... MECENAS . VILE Sabine can my humble board , In moderate cups , alone afford , In Grecian barrel stor'd away , Dear knight , Mæcenas , on the day The theatre's applauses woo'd The banks of thy paternal flood 38 BOOK I. ODES.
... MECENAS . VILE Sabine can my humble board , In moderate cups , alone afford , In Grecian barrel stor'd away , Dear knight , Mæcenas , on the day The theatre's applauses woo'd The banks of thy paternal flood 38 BOOK I. ODES.
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... Mæcenas , thy historic prose May better Cæsar's wars disclose ; And how the necks of threatening kings Along our ways Augustus brings . But me the Muse commands to tell Lycimnia's songs , of dulcet swell ; The brilliant lustre of her ...
... Mæcenas , thy historic prose May better Cæsar's wars disclose ; And how the necks of threatening kings Along our ways Augustus brings . But me the Muse commands to tell Lycimnia's songs , of dulcet swell ; The brilliant lustre of her ...
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... Fate Has but bestow'd a small estate , A spirit slight of Grecian song , Which spurns the base malignant throng . H ODE XVII . TO MÆCENAS . AH ! why that ODE XVI . 97 OF HORACE . Life's bitters are by smiles suppress'd, ...
... Fate Has but bestow'd a small estate , A spirit slight of Grecian song , Which spurns the base malignant throng . H ODE XVII . TO MÆCENAS . AH ! why that ODE XVI . 97 OF HORACE . Life's bitters are by smiles suppress'd, ...
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus. ODE XVII . TO MÆCENAS . AH ! why that fond complaining sigh ? Since neither heaven consents nor I- That thou , Mæcenas , first shouldst fall , Guard of my wealth my life — my all ! If thee my soul's most cherish ...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus. ODE XVII . TO MÆCENAS . AH ! why that fond complaining sigh ? Since neither heaven consents nor I- That thou , Mæcenas , first shouldst fall , Guard of my wealth my life — my all ! If thee my soul's most cherish ...
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Adria's Alcides Apollo's Apulian arms Atrides Augustus Bacchus bard bear blest boasts bold breeze brow Cæsar's Carthage cask Chloë Colchian crime cruel dark dart delight disgrace doom'd dread earth Eurus fair Falernian wine fame fate Faunus fear fierce fiery fire flame flight flow Formian gentle Glycera gods gold grace groves Gyges hair heaven Henry honours Iapyx immortal impious Jove Latian lengthen'd Lord LYDIA lyre MECENAS Mede Muse numbers nymphs o'er ODE VII ODE XIV Orcus PHIDYLE Phoebus Pirithous pour'd praise pride proud race rage rapid Roman Rome sacred Scorning Scythian seas Serjt shade shalt shine shore shun sing sire Six copies smile song soul spurns Sthenelus strain stream strife sway sweet Telephus Teucer thee thine Thracian Three copies Thrice Tiber's tide toil trembling Trojan TYNDARIS Venus Vindelici virgin wanton waves Whate'er wine wouldst thou wreath youth
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Seite 146 - How much." The quantum, "the due proportion." "His quantum of common sense," that is, "His amount
Seite 6 - TO THE SHIP IN WHICH VIRGIL SAILED TO ATHENS. So may the queen of Cyprus...
Seite 54 - ODE XXXI. TO APOLLO. WHAT asks the bard at Delos' shrine, Whose goblet pours its earliest wine ? Not the rich store of golden grain, Which gilds Sardinia's fertile plain ; Not flocks from hot Calabria's shore ; Not gold, nor India's ivory store ; Nor lands, where Liris' waters stray, And — silent — eat their banks away.