(3) From In Memoriam 89:

The dust and din and steam of town.

See Carm. 3. 29. 12:

Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.

(4) There is a similar phrase in To the Rev. F. D. Maurice:

Far from noise and smoke of town.

(5) From Edwin Morris:

Finish'd to the finger nail.

See Serm. 1. 5. 32-33:

Ad unguem

Factus homo.

(6) From Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington :

See Serm. 2. 7. 86:

Whole in himself.

In se ipso totus.

(7) From The Lover's Tale 1:

Death drew nigh and beat the doors of Life.

See Carm. 1. 4. 13:

Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas.

(8) From The Princess 1:

In our sweet youth.

See Carm. 1. 16. 22-24:

We remember love ourselves

Me quoque pectoris

Temptavit in dulci iuventa
Fervor.

(9) From Morte D'Arthur:

The giddy pleasure of the eyes.

See Epist. 2. 1. 188:

Incertos oculos et gaudia vana.

(10) From In Memoriam 84:

Thy spirit should fail from off the globe,
What time mine own might also flee,

As link'd with thine in love and fate,
And, hovering o'er the dolorous strait
To the other shore, involved in thee,

Arrive at last the blessed goal,

And He that died in Holy Land

Would reach us out the shining hand,
And take us as a single soul.

See Carm. 2. 17. 5 ff.:

A, te meae si partem animae rapit
Maturior vis, quid moror altera,

Nec carus aeque nec superstes

Integer? Ille dies utramque
Ducet ruinam. Non ego perfidum
Dixi sacramentum: ibimus, ibimus,
Utcumque praecedes, supremum
Carpere iter comites parati.

(11) From The Lotos-Eaters:

To live and lie reclined

On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.

Hallam Tennyson refers to Serm. 1. 5. 101:

Namque deos didici securum agere aevum.

Also to Lucretius 5. 83, 6. 58:

Nam bene qui didicere deos securum agere aevum.

Horace's line is clearly an echo of Lucretius. It is impossible to say which Tennyson had in mind.

(13) From In Memoriam 115:

Now fades the last long streak of snow,

Now burgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering squares, and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow.

See Carm. 4. 7. 1-2:

Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis
Arboribusque comae.

(14) From In Memoriam 107:

Fiercely flies

The blast of North and East, and ice
Makes daggers at the sharpen'd eaves.

But fetch the wine,

Arrange the board and brim the glass;

Bring in great logs and let them lie,
To make a solid core of heat.

See Carm. 1. 9. 1-8:

Vides ut alta stet nive candidum
Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus
Silvae laborantes, geluque

Flumina constiterint acuto.
Dissolve frigus ligna super foco
Large reponens atque benignius
Deprome quadrimum Sabina,
O Thaliarche, merum diota.

(15) From In Memoriam 89:

And break the livelong summer day
With banquet in the distant woods.

See Carm. 2. 7. 6-7:

Cum quo morantem saepe diem mero
Fregi.

(16) From Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind:

To arm in proof, and guard about

With triple-mailèd trust.

This is clearly an echo of Horace's aes triplex (Carm. 1. 3. 9); but the idea has become so familiar that one cannot say whether the particular instance is a direct reminiscence, or comes through an intermediary.

(17) From Morte D'Arthur:

Till on to dawn, when dreams
Begin to feel the truth and stir of day.

See Serm. 1. 10. 33:

Post mediam noctem,

cum somnia vera.

(18) From To, after Reading a Life and Letters:

Keep nothing sacred: 'tis but just
The many-headed beast should know.

See Epist. 1. 1. 76:

Belua multorum es capitum.

The similarity is unmistakable; but, as before (p. 88), the phrase is almost a commonplace.

(19) From The Princess 1:

Whate'er my grief to find her less than fame.

See Epist. 1. 11. 3:

Maiora minorave fama.

(20) From Locksley Hall:

Great Orion sloping slowly to the West.

See Carm. 3. 27. 18:

Pronus Orion.

(The first meaning of pronus is 'inclined forward'.) (21) From The Marriage of Geraint:

(24) From The Cup 1. 1:

No rushing on the game-the net-the net

Hallam Tennyson gives a reference to Carm. 1. 1. 28: .

Seu rupit teretes Marsus aper plagas

(25) From In Memoriam 115:

The happy birds that change their sky

See Epist. 1. 11. 27: caelum, non animum mutant.

ROBERT BROWNING

I. Unquestionable traces of Horace

(1) From The Inn Album 7:

But ne trucidet coram populo

Iuvenis senem! Right the Horatian rule!

See Ars Poet. 185:

Ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet.

Here, as frequently, Browning alters the Horatian line to fit the situation.

(2) From Pacchiarotto, stanza 16:

The paraphrase-which I much need-is

From Horace per ignes incedis.

See Carm. 2. 1. 7: incedis per ignis.

(3) The title of the poem Instans Tyrannus comes from Carm.

3. 3. 3: instantis tyranni.

(4) From The Statue and the Bust:

See Serm. 1. 1. 69-70.

How strive you? De te fabula!

(5) From Parleyings with Certain People of Importance (Parleyings with George Bubb Dodington, stanza 6):

In armor, true aes triplex, breast and back
Binding about.

See Carm. 1. 3. 9-10:

Circa pectus erat.

Aes triplex

(6) In the same section of the same poem we read:

Triply cased in brass

a reference, of course, to the same Horatian phrase.

(7) From The Two Poets of Croisic, stanza 75:

(8) From The Two Poets of Croisic, stanza 75:

Leisurely works mark the divinior mens.