 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...  The Works of Horace - Page 263by Horace - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1824 - 172 pages
...generally stitched to pompous beginnings, and (those) professing great things; as when the grove and altar of Diana, and the meandering of a current hastening...the river Rhine, or the rainbow is described : but now there was not a place for these : and perhaps you know how to imitate a cypress : what (of) that,... | |
 | Horace - 1836 - 442 pages
...should associate with the savage; nor that serpents should be coupled with birds, lambs with tigers. In pompous introductions, and such as promise a great...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... | |
 | Horace - 1850 - 372 pages
...should associate with the savage ; nor that serpents should be coupled with birds, lambs with tigers. In pompous introductions, and such as promise a great...painted for the given price, is to be represented as i swimming hopeless out of a shipwreck ? A large * Bougha of cypress were carried in funeral processions,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1850 - 350 pages
...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...[fine things] : perhaps, too, you know how to draw a cypress:4 but what is that to the purpose, if he, who is painted for the given price, is [to be represented... | |
 | Horace - 1855 - 376 pages
...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...:* but what is that to the purpose, if he, who is painted for the given price, is [to be represented as] swimming hopeless out of a shipwreck ? A large... | |
 | Horace - 1888 - 372 pages
...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...things] : perhaps, too, you know how to draw a cypress : 4 but what is that to the purpose, if he, who is painted for the given price, is [to be represented... | |
 | Horace - Latin poetry - 1894 - 352 pages
...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...:* but what is that to the purpose, if he, who is painted for the given price, is [to be represented as] swimming hopeless out of a shipwreck ? A large... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1918 - 544 pages
...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...cypress: but what is that to the purpose, if he who is painted for the given price, is [to be represented as] swimming hopeless out of a shipwreck? A large... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1918 - 528 pages
...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...current hastening through pleasant fields, or the river Hhine, or the rainbow, is described. But here there was no room for these [fine things]: perhaps, too,... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1918 - 532 pages
...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...cypress: but what is that to the purpose, if he who is painted for the given price, is {to be represented as] swimming hopeess out of a shipwreck? A large... | |
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