Horace; His Life, Friendships And Philosophy As Told By Himself in Unrhymed Metrical Translation
Horace; His Life, Friendships And Philosophy As Told By Himself in Unrhymed Metrical Translation
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Though sometimes, t'is true that its voice even Comedy raises. And anger of Chremes delights in inflation of language: 95 While frequently wail, in a suppliant speech, do the tragic Telephus and Peleus both, who when poor and in exile. Digitized by Google 117 Aside threw their paint-pots, and all the big-syllabled words of their phrases, If anxious the hearts of spectators to touch, with lamentings. Not sufficient it is that your poems have beauty: of charm too. They must be, to carry off with ...them soul of the listener — loo For, truly, with laughter to laugh, and to wail with the weeping, Must ever the countenance human. You wish then my tears, mourn Yourself, at beginning: for thus will your miseries touch me, Telephus, or Peleus: and if you ill -speak your assignments, 111 slumber, or smile. And the accents of pathos best suit with 105 The visage in sorrow; of anger, alike with the threatening; The sportive with wanton: the grave with expressions aus- terest. Hence, Nature first inwardly forms us to note, and to follow All changes of fortune.
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