The Works of Horace, Band 2Oliver & Boyd, 1819 |
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Seite 250 - Obscurata diu populo bonus eruet atque Proferet in lucem speciosa vocabula rerum, Quae priscis memorata Catonibus atque Cethegis Nunc situs informis premit et deserta vetustas ; Adsciscet nova quae genitor produxerit usus. Vehemens et liquidus puroque simillimus amni 120 Fundet opes Latiumque beabit divite lingua...
Seite 34 - Vixi cum quibus? Absentem qui rodit amicum, Qui non defendit alio culpante , solutos Qui captat risus hominum famamque dicacis, Fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere Qui nequit: hic niger est, hune tu, Romane, [ caveto.
Seite 148 - Est mihi purgatam crebro qui personet aurem: Solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne Peccet ad extremum ridendus et ilia ducat.
Seite 234 - ... castis cum pueris ignara puella mariti disceret unde preces, vatem ni Musa dedisset?
Seite 280 - Successit vetus his comoedia non sine multa Laude, sed in vitium libertas excidit et vim Dignam lege regi : lex est accepta, chorusque Turpiter obticuit sublato jure nocendi.
Seite 286 - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Seite 269 - It is not enough that poems be beautiful;" let them be tender and affecting, and bear away the soul of the auditor whithersoever they please. As the human countenance smiles on those that smile, so does it sympathize with those that weep. If you would have me weep you must first express the passion of grief yourself; then...
Seite 263 - In pompous introductions, and such as promise a great deal, it generally happens that one or two verses of purple patch-work, that may make a great show, are tagged on; as when the grove and the altar of Diana and the meandering of a current hastening through pleasant fields, or the river Rhine, or the rainbow is described. But here there was no room for these [fine things]: perhaps, too, you know how to draw a cypress...
Seite 26 - ... cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus atque ita porro pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus, donec verba, quibus voces sensusque notarent, nominaque invenere; dehinc absistere bello, oppida coeperunt munire et ponere leges, ne quis fur esset neu latro neu quis adulter.
Seite 276 - Regali conspectus in auro nuper et ostro, Migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas ; Aut, dum vitat humum, nubes et inania captet.