The Poems of HoraceBell & Sons, 1902 - 293 pages |
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... laughter - loving " Venus come , round whom at all times Mirth and Cupid flit : or thou great founder of the Roman name , if with favour thou again regard thy race and seed , awhile forsaken , -ah ! sated now with war's too tedious game ...
... laughter - loving " Venus come , round whom at all times Mirth and Cupid flit : or thou great founder of the Roman name , if with favour thou again regard thy race and seed , awhile forsaken , -ah ! sated now with war's too tedious game ...
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... laugh be drawn which tells of hiding maid , and let the forfeit from her arm be snatched or from her finger , coyly ... laughed himself . And Priam too , thy guidance given , left Ilium with a load of wealth , and passed unseen the ...
... laugh be drawn which tells of hiding maid , and let the forfeit from her arm be snatched or from her finger , coyly ... laughed himself . And Priam too , thy guidance given , left Ilium with a load of wealth , and passed unseen the ...
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... laughs at it , the guileless nymphs but laugh , and Cupid pitiless as is wont , still whetting fiery darts upon the stone all red with blood . Nay more , our youths are growing up to be your prey ; another band of slaves is coming on ...
... laughs at it , the guileless nymphs but laugh , and Cupid pitiless as is wont , still whetting fiery darts upon the stone all red with blood . Nay more , our youths are growing up to be your prey ; another band of slaves is coming on ...
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... laughs with glee , he shall erect a marble bust of thee beneath a citron dome by Alba's lake . There shalt thou inhale sweet odours plentiful , and shalt delight thyself with mingled strains of lyre and Phrygian pipe and flageolet ...
... laughs with glee , he shall erect a marble bust of thee beneath a citron dome by Alba's lake . There shalt thou inhale sweet odours plentiful , and shalt delight thyself with mingled strains of lyre and Phrygian pipe and flageolet ...
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... laughter loud , the once bright torch to ashes wasted quite . ODE XIV . TO AUGUSTUS . Augustus , greatest of chiefs where'er the sun lights up the habitable globe , what zealous care of Senate or of Roman people can ever hope by honours ...
... laughter loud , the once bright torch to ashes wasted quite . ODE XIV . TO AUGUSTUS . Augustus , greatest of chiefs where'er the sun lights up the habitable globe , what zealous care of Senate or of Roman people can ever hope by honours ...
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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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