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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.] - Epistles (II, 1, 13) [Greatness] The irritable tribe of poets. [Lat., Genus irritabile vatum.] - Epistles (II, 2, 102) [Poets] What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed? [Lat., Quid te exempta juvat spinis e pluribus una.] - Epistles (II, 2, 212) [Success] The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.] - Epistles (II, 2, 40) [Poverty] Each passing year robs us of some possession. [Lat., Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes.] - Epistles (II, 2, 55) [Time] All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing. - Epistles (II, 2, 58) [Opinion] Thou canst mould him into any shape like soft clay. [Lat., Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda.] - Epistles (II, 2, 8) [Character] God perchance will by a happy change restore these things to a settled condition. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice.] - Epistles (XIII, 7) [Change] Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.] - Epodi (IV, 5) [Money] Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice.] - Epodi (XIII, 7) [Providence] Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, Ut prisca gens mortalium, Paterna rura bobus exercet suis, Solutus omni faenore.] - Epodon (bk. II, 1) [Agriculture] Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die.] - Epodon (XIII, 3) [Opportunity] Bolt from the blue. - Ode (I, 34) [Sky] Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. [Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo.] - Ode XVI (bk. III, l. 12), (Francis' translation) [Gold] The crowd of changeable citizens. [Lat., Mobilium turba Quiritium.] - Odes (bk. I, 1, 7) [Public] Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum Rara juventus.] - Odes (bk. I, 2, 23) [Posterity] Virtue, dear friend, needs no defence, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poison'd arrows were. - Odes (bk. I, ode XII, st. 1), (Wentworth Dillon's translation) [Virtue] You are dealing with a work full of dangerous hazard, and you are venturing upon fires overlaid with treacherous ashes. [Lat., Periculosae plenum opus aleae Tractas, et incedis per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso.] - Odes (bk. II, 1, 6) [Danger] To scorn the ill-conditioned rabble. [Lat., Malignum Spernere vulgus.] - Odes (bk. II, 16, 39) [Public] I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.] - Odes (bk. III, 1) [Public] To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] - Odes (bk. III, 4, 52) [Mountains] Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur ignotique sacro.] - Odes (bk. IV, IX, 25) [Bravery] And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. - Of the Art of Poetry [Acting] Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age. - Of the Art of Poetry [Age] But every little busy scibbler now Swells with the prasies which he gives himself; And, taking sanctuary in the crowd, Brags of this impudence, and scorns to mend. - Of the Art of Poetry (475) [Authorship] Displaying page 22 of 25 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 [22] 23 24 25
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