The Odes of HoraceW. Pickering, 1843 - 215 pages |
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Adria's Apollo's Apulian arms Atrides Augustus Bacchus bard bear bids blest boast bold breeze brow Cæsar's Carthage cask Chloë Colchian crime cruel dark dart delight dire disgrace dread earth fair Falernian wine fame fate FAUNUS fear fierce flame flight flow Formian gentle glow Glycera gods gold grace groves Gyges hair heaven Henry Hesperia's honours Iapyx immortal impious Jove Latian Lord LYDIA lyre Mæcenas Mede Muse numbers nymphs o'er ODE XIV Orcus PHIDYLE Phoebus Pirithous plain praise prayer pride proud race rage rapid Roman Rome sacred sail Scorning Scythian seas Serjt shade shalt shine shore shun sing sire Six copies smile song soul spurns steed Sthenelus strain stream strife string sway sweet Telephus Teucer thee thine Thracian Three copies Thrice Tiber's tide toils trembling Trojan TYNDARIS Venus Vindelici virgin wanton waves Whate'er William wine wouldst thou wreath youth
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Page 146 - How much." The quantum, "the due proportion." "His quantum of common sense," that is, "His amount
Page 54 - ODE XXXI. TO APOLLO. WHAT asks the bard at Delos' shrine, Whose goblet pours its earliest wine ? Not the rich store of golden grain, Which gilds Sardinia's fertile plain ; Not flocks from hot Calabria's shore ; Not gold, nor India's ivory store ; Nor lands, where Liris' waters stray, And — silent — eat their banks away.