HoraceW. Suttaby, 1806 - 454 pages |
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ALBIUS TIBULLUS Anacreon Aristippus arms Augustus bard behold bend beneath blest bold breast Cæsar charms cheerful cries crowd crown'd DAMASIPPUS dame dare dire dread earth ease EPISTLE EPODE fair faithless fame fate fear feast festal fierce fire flame flowing folly fond form'd fortune frugal genius give glows gods gold Grecian happy hath head hear heart honors Horace hour impious indulgence inspire Jove labors Latian light lyre madness Mæcenas maid Muse ne'er numbers o'er Pindar plain pleasure poet poet's possest powers divine praise pride Pyrrha race rage raise reign rich rise Roman Rome round sacred SATIRE SATIRE VI SATIRE VIII Scythians seas shine sing sire skies slave song soul STERTINIUS strain taste tear Teucer thee thine thou Thracian thro Tiber Tibur TIRESIAS toil translation verse vile Virgil VIRGINS virtue waves wealth winds wine wise wretch yield youth
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Page 449 - A youth who hopes th' Olympic prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain ; Th' extremes of heat and cold must often prove. And shun the weakening joys of wine and love.
Page 451 - Nor say, for trifles why should I displease The man I love? For trifles such as these To serious mischiefs lead the man I love, If once the flatterer's ridicule he prove.
Page 70 - AMONG many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness, as well as virtue, consists in mediocrity; that to avoid every extreme is necessary, even to him...
Page 377 - Then cease complaining, friend, and learn to live. He is not poor to whom kind fortune grants, Even with a frugal hand, what Nature wants," he is not poor, he is not in need.
Page 334 - Who then is free ? The wise, who well maintains An empire o'er himself: whom neither chains, Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire; Who boldly answers to his warm desire ; Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise; Firm in himself who on himself relies ; Polish'd and round who runs his proper course, And breaks misfortune with superior force.
Page 294 - One error fools us, though we various stray, Some to the left, and some to t'other side. FRANCIS. It is common among all the classes of mankind, to charge each other with trifling away life: every man looks on the occupation or amusement of his neighbour, as something below the dignity of our nature, and unworthy...
Page 442 - As all might hope to imitate with ease ; Yet while they strive the same success to gain. Should find their labour and their hopes are vain".
Page 448 - Poems like pictures are: some charm when nigh, Others at distance more delight your eye ; That loves the shade, this tempts a stronger light, And challenges the critic's piercing sight: That gives us pleasure for a single view; Aud this, ten times repeated, still is new.
Page 30 - Love and the nymph shall charm my toils, The nymph, who sweetly speaks and sweetly smiles.
Page 446 - Keep Nature's great original in view, And thence the living images pursue. FRANCIS. MY friend Sir Roger de Coverley, when we last met together at the club, told me that he had a great mind to see the new tragedy * with me, assuring me, at the same time, that he had not been at a play these twenty years.