The Works of HoraceH. G. Bohn, 1853 - 325 |
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admire agreeable ancient ANTHON Apollo Aristippus arms Augustus Bacchus battle of Actium battle of Philippi beauty called Campus Martius celebrated character Chimæra chorus Cicero comedy CRUQ Dacier death delight dread DUBL earth Ennius EPISTLE expression father Faunus favour fortune FRAN genius give gods Grecian Greeks happy hath honour Horace horse HURD imitation impious Italy Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind king labour Latin laugh laws lest live Lucanian lyre M'CAUL Mæcenas manner means mind muse nature never obliged Octavius ORELLI Parthians person Phraates Pirithous play poem poet poetry prætor praise rage render rich Roman Rome sacred SATIRE says senate ship signifies sing slaves Stertinius Telephus temple thee thing thou Tiberius Tibur tion TORR tragedy Trojan Troy Venus verses Virgil virtue WATSON whence wind wine wise word write youth
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Strona 283 - Chremes rails in a tumid strain: and a tragic writer generally expresses grief in a prosaic style. Telephus and Peleus, when they are both in poverty and exile, throw aside their rants and gigantic expressions if they have a mind to move the heart of the spectator with their complaint.
Strona 301 - But if he be one who is well able to set out an elegant table, and give security for a poor man, and relieve him when entangled in gloomy lawsuits; I shall wonder if with his wealth he can distinguish a true friend from a false one. You, whether you have made, or intend to make, a present to any one, do not bring him full of joy directly to your finished verses: for then he will cry out: "Charming, excellent, judicious...
Strona 279 - JEmilian school shall of himself, with singular skill,6 both express the nails, and imitate in brass the flexible hair ; unhappy yet in the main, because he knows not how to finish a complete piece. I would no more choose to be such a one as this, had I a mind to compose any thing, than to live with a distorted nose, [though] remarkable for black eyes and jetty hair. Ye who write, make choice of a subject suitable to your abilities; and revolve in your thoughts a considerable time what your strength7...
Strona 122 - Proceed (says he) in your virtuous course. For, when once foul lust has inflamed the veins, it is right for young fellows to come hither, in comparison of their meddling with other men's wives." I should not be willing to be commended on such terms, says Cupiennius, an admirer of the silken veil. Ye, that do not wish well to the proceedings of adulterers, it is worth your while to hear how they are hampered on all sides...
Strona 294 - ... licentiously? Or should not I rather suppose, that all the world are to see my faults ; secure, and cautious [never to err] but with hope of being pardoned ? Though, perhaps, I have merited no praise, I have escaped censure. Ye [who are desirous to excel,] turn over the Grecian models by night, turn them by day. But our ancestors commended both the numbers of Plautus, and his strokes of pleasantry ; too tamely, I will not say foolishly, admiring each of them ; if you and I but know how to distinguish...
Strona 4 - Leda, the one illustrious for his achievements on horseback, the other on foot; whoso clear-shining" constellation as soon as it has shone forth to the sailors, the troubled surge falls down from the rocks, the winds cease, the clouds vanish, and the threatening waves subside in the sea — because it was their will.
Strona 191 - THIS was [ever] among the number of my wishes : a portion of ground not over -large, in which was a garden, and a fountain with a continual stream close to my house, and a little woodland besides. The gods have done more abundantly, and better, for me [than this].
Strona 296 - ... accompany the subject, when it is well conceived. He who has learned what he owes to his country, and what to his friends; with what affection a parent, a brother, and a stranger, are to be loved; what is the duty of a senator, what of a judge; what the duties of a general sent out to war; he, [I say,] certainly knows how to give suitable attributes to every character.
Strona 296 - Italy be raised higher by valor and feats of arms, than by its language, did not the fatigue and tediousness of using the file disgust every one of our poets. Do you, the descendants of Pompilius, reject that poem, which many days and many a blot have not ten times subdued to the most perfect accuracy. Because Democritus believes that genius is more successful than wretched art, and excludes from Helicon all poets who are in their senses, a great number do not care to part with their nails or beard,...
Strona 285 - Diomede's return from Meleager's death, nor trace the rise of the Trojan war from [Leda's] eggs : he always hastens on to the event : and hurries away his reader into the midst of interesting circumstances, no otherwise than as if they were [already] known ; and what he despairs of, as to receiving a polish...