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... write a his- tory of the civil wars of Rome . The Poet advises him to abandon all idea of this work on account of its difficulties , and tells him " he will have to tread on quicksands and pass through fires ; " justly imagining that he ...
... write a his- tory of the civil wars of Rome . The Poet advises him to abandon all idea of this work on account of its difficulties , and tells him " he will have to tread on quicksands and pass through fires ; " justly imagining that he ...
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... writer , better con- solation for poverty , or stronger arguments for contentment , than are contained in his ... writing , but contain a valuable system of ethics . So " ates refuted before he taught , observing , " that the ground ...
... writer , better con- solation for poverty , or stronger arguments for contentment , than are contained in his ... writing , but contain a valuable system of ethics . So " ates refuted before he taught , observing , " that the ground ...
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... writer had not strength enough to support himself , or courage enough to venture into a third . This unclassical kind of versification would be particularly most unnatural in a translation of Horace . It would make him argue in couplets ...
... writer had not strength enough to support himself , or courage enough to venture into a third . This unclassical kind of versification would be particularly most unnatural in a translation of Horace . It would make him argue in couplets ...
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... writing , although he hath been bold enough to print all the words of his translation , such as generous , temperate , powerful , at full length . A good reader will pronounce them in the same metrical time , as gen'rous , temp'rate ...
... writing , although he hath been bold enough to print all the words of his translation , such as generous , temperate , powerful , at full length . A good reader will pronounce them in the same metrical time , as gen'rous , temp'rate ...
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... writing ; and if he hath offered his opinion on the difficult passages of his author with . that modesty which is due to the public , let him expect such tenderness for his mistakes , as he hath shewn to those of others , while he ...
... writing ; and if he hath offered his opinion on the difficult passages of his author with . that modesty which is due to the public , let him expect such tenderness for his mistakes , as he hath shewn to those of others , while he ...
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ALBIUS TIBULLUS Anacreon Aristippus arms Augustus bard behold bend beneath blest bold breast Cæsar charms cheerful cries crowd crown'd DAMASIPPUS dame dare dire dread earth ease EPISTLE EPODE fair faithless fame fate fear feast festal fierce fire flame flowing folly fond form'd fortune frugal genius give glows gods gold Grecian happy hath head hear heart honors Horace hour impious indulgence inspire Jove labors Latian light lyre madness Mæcenas maid Muse ne'er numbers o'er Pindar plain pleasure poet poet's possest powers divine praise pride Pyrrha race rage raise reign rich rise Roman Rome round sacred SATIRE SATIRE VI SATIRE VIII Scythians seas shine sing sire skies slave song soul STERTINIUS strain taste tear Teucer thee thine thou Thracian thro Tiber Tibur TIRESIAS toil translation verse vile Virgil VIRGINS virtue waves wealth winds wine wise wretch yield youth
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449 ページ - A youth who hopes th' Olympic prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain ; Th' extremes of heat and cold must often prove. And shun the weakening joys of wine and love.
451 ページ - Nor say, for trifles why should I displease The man I love? For trifles such as these To serious mischiefs lead the man I love, If once the flatterer's ridicule he prove.
70 ページ - AMONG many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness, as well as virtue, consists in mediocrity; that to avoid every extreme is necessary, even to him...
377 ページ - Then cease complaining, friend, and learn to live. He is not poor to whom kind fortune grants, Even with a frugal hand, what Nature wants," he is not poor, he is not in need.
334 ページ - Who then is free ? The wise, who well maintains An empire o'er himself: whom neither chains, Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire; Who boldly answers to his warm desire ; Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise; Firm in himself who on himself relies ; Polish'd and round who runs his proper course, And breaks misfortune with superior force.
294 ページ - One error fools us, though we various stray, Some to the left, and some to t'other side. FRANCIS. It is common among all the classes of mankind, to charge each other with trifling away life: every man looks on the occupation or amusement of his neighbour, as something below the dignity of our nature, and unworthy...
442 ページ - As all might hope to imitate with ease ; Yet while they strive the same success to gain. Should find their labour and their hopes are vain".
448 ページ - Poems like pictures are: some charm when nigh, Others at distance more delight your eye ; That loves the shade, this tempts a stronger light, And challenges the critic's piercing sight: That gives us pleasure for a single view; Aud this, ten times repeated, still is new.
30 ページ - Love and the nymph shall charm my toils, The nymph, who sweetly speaks and sweetly smiles.
446 ページ - Keep Nature's great original in view, And thence the living images pursue. FRANCIS. MY friend Sir Roger de Coverley, when we last met together at the club, told me that he had a great mind to see the new tragedy * with me, assuring me, at the same time, that he had not been at a play these twenty years.