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Strona xix
... poetic talents to the promotion of its wise and peaceful policy . In his Odes in honor of Augustus , he expressed the senti- ments of the best and most enlightened classes throughout the empire ; and , in ascribing to him divine honors ...
... poetic talents to the promotion of its wise and peaceful policy . In his Odes in honor of Augustus , he expressed the senti- ments of the best and most enlightened classes throughout the empire ; and , in ascribing to him divine honors ...
Strona xx
... poet showed himself nowise disposed to avail himself of the tempt- ing offers of the emperor.3 We have thus touched upon the leading events in the life of Horace . The struggles of his youth , overcome by the exer- cise of his poetic ...
... poet showed himself nowise disposed to avail himself of the tempt- ing offers of the emperor.3 We have thus touched upon the leading events in the life of Horace . The struggles of his youth , overcome by the exer- cise of his poetic ...
Strona xxv
... poetic powers . If they do not indicate the pre- sence of the highest attributes of genius , they display a rare assemblage of the gifts and attainments of a true poet ; a lively and well - stored fancy , an exquisite sensibility ...
... poetic powers . If they do not indicate the pre- sence of the highest attributes of genius , they display a rare assemblage of the gifts and attainments of a true poet ; a lively and well - stored fancy , an exquisite sensibility ...
Strona xxvii
... poet . Whence , for instance , but from the soul of a Roman poet , could have emanated the sublime martial ode to Antonius ? or the peaceful lay called forth from the lyre by the closing of the temple of Janus ? Who but a Roman poet ...
... poet . Whence , for instance , but from the soul of a Roman poet , could have emanated the sublime martial ode to Antonius ? or the peaceful lay called forth from the lyre by the closing of the temple of Janus ? Who but a Roman poet ...
Strona 313
... poets resort to this use of the perfect , wher- ever the present would be excluded by the metre .. Juvat . The ordinary construction requires here the subjunctive . The choice of the indicative illustrates a poetic usage , very common ...
... poets resort to this use of the perfect , wher- ever the present would be excluded by the metre .. Juvat . The ordinary construction requires here the subjunctive . The choice of the indicative illustrates a poetic usage , very common ...