The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Æneid Alcibiades arms Augustus AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS behold beneath bless'd blood bold breast breath Cæsar called Catullus charms cheerful crimes Croesus crowd crown'd dare death dire dost dreadful e'en earth Ennius Epicurus eyes fair fame fate father fear feast fierce fire flame fortune give gods gold Grecian hand hast haughty head hear Heaven honour Horace impious inspire Jove Julius Cæsar Juvenal king labour live lyre Mæcenas maid Medes mighty mind Muse ne'er numbers o'er oppress'd Pacuvius Persius plain poet possess'd praise prayer press'd pride Pyrrhus race rage reign rich rise Roman Rome round sacred Satire says Scythians Sejanus shalt shine sing sire slave soul Stoic sword tears tell Tereus thee thine thou art Thyestes Tibur toil trembling Venus verse vice Virgil virtue vows waves winds wine wise wouldst wretch youth
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Page 147 - From six i' th' hundred to six hundred more ? Indulge, and to thy genius freely give ; For, not to live at ease, is not to live. Death stalks behind thee, and each flying hour Does some loose remnant of thy life devour. Live, while thou liv'st; for death will make us all A name, a nothing but an old wife's tale. Speak : wilt thou Avarice or Pleasure choose To be thy lord? Take one, and one refuse.
Page 288 - Happy the man, and he alone, Who master of himself can say. To-day at least hath been my own, For I have clearly liv'd to-day : Then let to-morrow's clouds arise, Or purer suns o'erspread the cheerful skies.
Page 8 - Form'd in the forge, the pliant brass is laid ) On anvils; and of head and limbs are made, > Pans, cans, and piss-pots, a whole kitchen-trade.
Page 110 - em, and betwixt his grinders caught. Unlike in method, with conceal'd design, Did crafty Horace his low numbers join : And, with a sly insinuating grace, Laugh'd at his friend, and look'd him in the face: Would raise a blush, where secret vice he found ; And tickle, while he gently prob'd the wound.
Page 240 - Day presses on the heels of day, And moons increase to their decay ; But you, with thoughtless pride elate, Unconscious of impending fate, Command the pillar'd dome to rise, When lo ! thy tomb forgotten lies.
Page 15 - The tomb, and found the strait dimensions wide : " Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.
Page 60 - No vicious dispositions of the mind more obstinately resist both the counsels of philosophy and the injunctions of religion, than those which are complicated with an opinion of dignity ; and which we cannot dismiss without leaving in the hands of opposition some...
Page 144 - Dama, once a groom of low degree, Not worth a farthing, and a sot beside...
Page 230 - The man within the golden mean Who can his boldest wish contain, Securely views the ruin'd cell, Where sordid want and sorrow dwell; And in himself serenely great, Declines an envied room of state.
Page 114 - When wilt thou, mighty Jove, My wealthy uncle from this world remove...