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"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea."
Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all, Both the great vulgar and the small."
Horace. Book iii. Ode 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 65.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour."
Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 71.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away."
Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 81.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."
Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 87.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured muse."
An allusion to Horace, Satire x. Book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I 've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood."
Imitation of Horace, Book ii. Sat. 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world."
Horace. Ode iii. Book iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 69.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 76.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 110.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 127.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire ii. Book ii. Line 159.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread, and liberty."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire vi. Book ii. Line 220.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue i. Line 136.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To Berkeley every virtue under heaven."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue ii. Line 73.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 38.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He 's armed without that 's innocent within."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 94.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 103.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Above all Greek, above all Roman fame."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 26.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 35.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 108.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 111.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Then marble soften'd into life grew warm, And yielding, soft metal flow'd to human form."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 147.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who says in verse what others say in prose."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 202.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 267.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art,--the art to blot."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 280.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who pants for glory finds but short repose: A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 300.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 304.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 413.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 72.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 85.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 168.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd at the House of Lords."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle vi. Book i. To Mr. Murray.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Odes. Book iv. Ode 9.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen."
To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace. Book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater,"
Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1742.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch."
Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1774.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it."
Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door."
Translation of Horace. Book ii. Ode x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought."
Rejected Addresses. Cui Bono?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In the name of the Prophet--figs."
Johnson's Ghost.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory."
Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so,-- Not for thy faults, but mine."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 77.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little."
On Horace Walpole. 1833.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The way to resumption is to resume."
Letter to Horace Greeley, March 17, 1866.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain