The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of HoraceBell, 1902 - 201 páginas |
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Aristippus Atrides bard better Cæsar's Cowper Cratinus Davus dear e'en ease Ennius eyes father faults fear fencers fish folks fool Gabii give gold Greece hand head hear heart heir Horace Horace's JULIUS FLORUS keep king Latin laugh Lebedus less live look Lucilius madman Mæcenas man's mean metre mind Muse ne'er ne'ertheless neighbours night nought Numicius o'er once pains Parthia Persius plain Plautus play poetry poets poor praise pray rich Roman Rome round sage sane SATIRE SATIRE IV SATIRE VII scarce Scava shame sing sire slave sleep song soul Staberius Stertinius stomach strain Suppose sure talk taste tell there's things thought TIRESIAS tongue town translation truth turn Twas twere twill twixt twould Varius verses wealth what's whole wight wine wise words write
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Página 195 - A childish waste of philosophic pains; But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre, he that runs may read.
Página xvi - It is not by comparing line with line that the merit of great works is to be estimated, but by their general effects and ultimate result.
Página 35 - Down go my ears in donkey-fashion, straight; You've seen them do it, when their load's too great. " If I mistake not," he begins, " you'll find Viscus not more, nor Varius, to your mind ; There's not a man can turn a verse so soon, Or dance so nimbly when he hears a tune ; While, as for singing — ah, my forte is there; Tigellius' self might envy me, I'll swear.
Página 163 - At Rome I had my schooling, and was taught Achilles' wrath, and all the woes it brought; At classic Athens, where I went erelong, I learnt to draw the line 'twixt right and wrong, And search for truth, if so she might be seen In academic groves of blissful green...
Página 9 - True love, we know, is blind ; defects, that blight The loved one's charms, escape the lover's sight, Nay, pass for beauties ; as Balbinus shows A passion for the wen on Agna's nose. Oh, with our friendships that we did the same, And screened our blindness under virtue's name ! For we are bound to treat a friend's defect With touch most tender, and a fond respect ; Even as a father treats a child's, who hints, The urchin's eyes are roguish...
Página 10 - sweet pet," and would not have him higher, Gives Varus' name to knock-kneed boys, and dubs His club-foot youngster Scaurus, king of clubs. E'en so let us our neighbours' frailties scan: A friend is close; call him a careful man: Another's vain and fond of boasting; say, He talks in an engaging, friendly way: A third is a barbarian, rude and free; Straightforward and courageous let him be: A fourth is apt to break into a flame; An ardent spirit — make we that his name. This is the sovereign recipe,...
Página 41 - Grant all you please, in turn you must allow, Had fate postponed his life from then to now, He'd prune redundancies, apply the file To each excrescence that deforms his style, Oft in the pangs of labour scratch his head, And bite his nails, and bite them, till they bled. Oh yes! believe me, you must draw your pen Not once nor twice but o'er and o'er again Through what you've written, if you would entice The man that reads you once to read you twice, Not making popular applause your cue, But looking...
Página 174 - Yes, words long faded may again revive, And words may fade now blooming and alive, If usage wills it so, to whom belongs The rule, the law, the government of tongues.
Página 189 - But here occurs a question some men start, If good verse comes from nature or from art. For me, I cannot see how native wit Can e'er dispense with art, or art with it. Set them to pull together, they're agreed, And each supplies what each is found to need.
Página 179 - Extols his own young years with peevish praise, But rates and censures these degenerate days. Years, as they come, bring blessings in their train; Years, as they go, take blessings back again: Yet haste or chance may blink the obvious truth, Make youth discourse like age, and age like youth: Attention fixed on life alone can teach The traits and adjuncts which pertain to each. Sometimes an action on the stage is shown, Sometimes 'tis done elsewhere, and there made known.