The Works of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from The Works of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow, Vol. 1 of 2: With the Latin Text and Order of Construction in the Opposite Page, And Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical, Notes in English, From the Best Commentators Both Ancient and ModernPosition. And where indeed can we find such pat terns for writing as in Homer, Pindar, Horace, and Virgil? Can we read 131e without discovering all that humaninvention Can conceive - O? The truly grand, sublime, and heroic? Can we read their noble senti ments, their daring and happy strokes, without being animated by their fire? But if we look into the sacred poets, the beauty and excellency of poetry will be still more manifest, for who can read the song of Moses, the psalms of David, or the book of Job, without ad miring the artful images and inimitable beauties where with they abound? Rivers ¿ow back to their sources, hills tremble, mountains dissolve like wax, seas meet and retire, at the voice of their Creator: these are expressions so lofty and sublime, as plainly Show their author {nor can such ideas fail of awakening the soul, and expand ing its thoughts to the utmost extent and elevation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.