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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 . NUMANTIA'S battles - fierce and long — Bid me not frame to lyric song ; Nor Hannibal , nor Punic blood , Which stains Sicilia's purple flood ; Nor Lapithæ , of savage soul ; -Hylæus , revelling G 4 ODE XII . 87 OF HORACE . Our ...
... MÆCENAS . NUMANTIA'S battles - fierce and long — Bid me not frame to lyric song ; Nor Hannibal , nor Punic blood , Which stains Sicilia's purple flood ; Nor Lapithæ , of savage soul ; -Hylæus , revelling G 4 ODE XII . 87 OF HORACE . Our ...
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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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Horace. ODE XVII . TO MECENAS . 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'd ...
Horace. ODE XVII . TO MECENAS . 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'd ...
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Seite 146 - How much." The quantum, "the due proportion." "His quantum of common sense," that is, "His amount
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.