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Strona viii
Gradually his powers of wit and repartee , aided perhaps by the propitiatory oblation of little poems “ upon occasion , ” ” increased his friendships with the great , and introduced him to the intimacy of Mæcenas .
Gradually his powers of wit and repartee , aided perhaps by the propitiatory oblation of little poems “ upon occasion , ” ” increased his friendships with the great , and introduced him to the intimacy of Mæcenas .
Strona ix
In accompanying Mæcenas in the war against Sextus Pompey , a storm arose , and our poet narrowly escaped being drowned in the Gulf of Velia , Nevertheless , he volunteered himself as his companion in the expedition that ended in that ...
In accompanying Mæcenas in the war against Sextus Pompey , a storm arose , and our poet narrowly escaped being drowned in the Gulf of Velia , Nevertheless , he volunteered himself as his companion in the expedition that ended in that ...
Strona x
Mæcenas died about the same time , almost fulfilling the melancholy prediction of his poet friend , though it is uncertain which first departed from life . In death they were scarcely separated , the remains of Horace being deposited ...
Mæcenas died about the same time , almost fulfilling the melancholy prediction of his poet friend , though it is uncertain which first departed from life . In death they were scarcely separated , the remains of Horace being deposited ...
Strona 1
TO MÆCENAS . a MÆORNAS , ' descended from royal ancestors , O both my pro tection and my darling honor ! There are those whom it delights to have collected Olympic dust in the chariot race ; and ( whom ] the goal nicely avoided by the ...
TO MÆCENAS . a MÆORNAS , ' descended from royal ancestors , O both my pro tection and my darling honor ! There are those whom it delights to have collected Olympic dust in the chariot race ; and ( whom ] the goal nicely avoided by the ...
Strona 16
We have in Dion a speech of Mæcenas upon that occasion , in which the allegory of a ship and the republic is so strongly maintained , and hath something so extremely like this ode , that probably the poet took his design from thence ...
We have in Dion a speech of Mæcenas upon that occasion , in which the allegory of a ship and the republic is so strongly maintained , and hath something so extremely like this ode , that probably the poet took his design from thence ...
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