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... Cicero and Catulus * , and that vote of the senate had gone abroad , that no child , born at Rome in the year of bis nativity , should be bred up , because the seers assured them that an emperor was born that year . Besides this ...
... Cicero and Catulus * , and that vote of the senate had gone abroad , that no child , born at Rome in the year of bis nativity , should be bred up , because the seers assured them that an emperor was born that year . Besides this ...
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... Cicero in his old age , Julius Cæsar , and the stoïcal Brutus , a little before , would needs be tampering with the Muses . The two latter had taken great care to have their poems curiously bound , and lodged in the most famous ...
... Cicero in his old age , Julius Cæsar , and the stoïcal Brutus , a little before , would needs be tampering with the Muses . The two latter had taken great care to have their poems curiously bound , and lodged in the most famous ...
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... Cicero , under whose consulship he was born , the preserver of his life , and chief instrument of his ad- vancement . There is no reason to question its being genuine , as the late French editor does : its mean- ness , in comparison of ...
... Cicero , under whose consulship he was born , the preserver of his life , and chief instrument of his ad- vancement . There is no reason to question its being genuine , as the late French editor does : its mean- ness , in comparison of ...
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... Cicero , which he inserted into his works . ) But learned men then lived easy and familiarly with the great : Augustus himself would sometimes sit down betwixt Virgil and Horace , and say , jestingly , that he sate betwixt sighing and ...
... Cicero , which he inserted into his works . ) But learned men then lived easy and familiarly with the great : Augustus himself would sometimes sit down betwixt Virgil and Horace , and say , jestingly , that he sate betwixt sighing and ...
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... none of his commentators have taken notice of it . He compares a tempest to a popular insurrection , as Cicero had compared a se- dition to a storm , a little before.— Ac veluti , magno in populo , cum sæpe coorta 24 LIFE OF VIRGIL .
... none of his commentators have taken notice of it . He compares a tempest to a popular insurrection , as Cicero had compared a se- dition to a storm , a little before.— Ac veluti , magno in populo , cum sæpe coorta 24 LIFE OF VIRGIL .
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Page 268 - Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of Fortune, and resigned to Fate!
Page 187 - A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress, and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry.
Page 164 - Here could I live, and love, and die with only you. Now I to fighting fields am sent afar, .And strive in winter camps with toils of war; While you (alas, that I should find it so!), To shun my sight, your native soil forego, 70 And climb the frozen Alps, and tread th
Page 225 - Wet weather seldom hurts the most unwise; So plain the signs, such prophets are the skies. The wary crane foresees it first, and sails Above the storm, and leaves the lowly vales...
Page 228 - With sharpen'd horns if glorious then she shine, Next day, not only that, but all the moon, Till her revolving race be wholly run, Are void of tempests...
Page 264 - But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty, the rich owner bless ; And rural pleasures crown his happiness.
Page 133 - His rosy wreath was dropt not long before, Borne by the tide of wine, and floating on the floor. His empty can, with ears half worn away, Was hung on high, to boast the triumph of the day. Invaded thus, for want...
Page 99 - Farewell, my pastures, my paternal stock, My fruitful fields, and my more fruitful flock! No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flowery thyme!
Page 128 - Alphesiboeus, tripping, shall advance, And mimic Satyrs in his antic dance. When to the nymphs our annual rites we pay, And when our fields with victims we survey ; While savage boars delight in shady woods, And finny fish inhabit in the floods ; While bees on thyme, and locusts feed on dew — Thy grateful swains these honours shall renew. Such honours as we pay to powers divine, To Bacchus and to Ceres, shall be thine.
Page 222 - And rocks the bellowing voice of boiling seas rebound. The father of the gods his glory shrouds, Involved in tempests, and a night of clouds; And, from the middle darkness flashing out, By fits he deals his fiery bolts about.