The Poems of HoraceBell & Sons, 1902 - 293 pages |
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... HEADMASTER OF THE EDINBURGH COLLEGIATE SCHOOL , EDITOR OF THE WORKS OF VIRGIL , WITH ENGLISH NOTES WITH MEMOIR AND INTRODUCTIONS LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS PREFACE . A IT has often been said that Horace 1902 Horatius Flaccus , Quintas.
... HEADMASTER OF THE EDINBURGH COLLEGIATE SCHOOL , EDITOR OF THE WORKS OF VIRGIL , WITH ENGLISH NOTES WITH MEMOIR AND INTRODUCTIONS LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS PREFACE . A IT has often been said that Horace 1902 Horatius Flaccus , Quintas.
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... English of the year of grace eighteen hundred and ninety - six , is simply impossible . It would be as difficult adequately to represent the Odes of Horace in English , as to reproduce Burns in Latin . With the Satires and Epistles the ...
... English of the year of grace eighteen hundred and ninety - six , is simply impossible . It would be as difficult adequately to represent the Odes of Horace in English , as to reproduce Burns in Latin . With the Satires and Epistles the ...
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... English reader , and with this object in view , to offer him a smooth and easy running version . How far I have succeeded in my attempt I leave to others to judge . I have studied once again the works of the best com- mentators - Orelli ...
... English reader , and with this object in view , to offer him a smooth and easy running version . How far I have succeeded in my attempt I leave to others to judge . I have studied once again the works of the best com- mentators - Orelli ...
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... English equivalent , wherever it occurs . The primary meaning seems to be " persistently disagreeable " ; " provoking , " as we say , i.e. one who won't take the advice of friends in the matter . 3 " At dawn , " literally , " it dawns ...
... English equivalent , wherever it occurs . The primary meaning seems to be " persistently disagreeable " ; " provoking , " as we say , i.e. one who won't take the advice of friends in the matter . 3 " At dawn , " literally , " it dawns ...
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... a triens . ” 1 The as was worth rather more than three farthings of English money . It was divided into twelve parts called unciæ . Sextans " Good ! you'll be able to guard your interests 277-328 ] 287 THE ART OF POETRY .
... a triens . ” 1 The as was worth rather more than three farthings of English money . It was divided into twelve parts called unciæ . Sextans " Good ! you'll be able to guard your interests 277-328 ] 287 THE ART OF POETRY .
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2nd Edition A. H. Bullen Anticyra Bacchus bear better bring Cæsar cask CELSUS ALBINOVANUS death delight dread earth English Engravings Ennius EPISTLE EPODE Falernian Falernian wine fame father fault Faunus fear feast gain gift give gods greedy Greek guest hand happy heart History honour Horace Illustrations Jove JULIUS FLORUS kings lated Latium laugh lest literally live Lucanian Lucilius lyre Mæcenas means Medes midst mind Muse ne'er night noble nought o'er once Orcus poems poet Portraits praise pray prayers Prose rich Roman Rome sacred SATIRE SATIRE VI seek sesterces shun sing slave sleep strains stream sweet Tarentum taste Telephus tell thee things thou Thracian Tibur TIRESIAS toil Trans Translated Venus verses vols wealth what's William Hazlitt winds wine wish wont Woodcuts woods words wrath write youth
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