Horace

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W. Suttaby, 1806 - 454 ページ

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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.

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