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... seek refrain : The day that Fate grants ever account as gain : Nor , while a boy , of love's sweet pleasures Heedless be thou , or the dance's measures , As long as grim age from thy green youth abstains . ' Tis now the time for parks ...
... seek refrain : The day that Fate grants ever account as gain : Nor , while a boy , of love's sweet pleasures Heedless be thou , or the dance's measures , As long as grim age from thy green youth abstains . ' Tis now the time for parks ...
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... Seeking to fright thee , then out - laughed Apollo , Robbed of his quiver . Under thy guidance did the wealthy Priam , Ilium forsaking , leave the proud Atridæ , And the Thessalian ... SEEK not that thou shouldst THE ODES OF HORACE . 25.
... Seeking to fright thee , then out - laughed Apollo , Robbed of his quiver . Under thy guidance did the wealthy Priam , Ilium forsaking , leave the proud Atridæ , And the Thessalian ... SEEK not that thou shouldst THE ODES OF HORACE . 25.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus. XI . TO LEUCONOË . SEEK not that thou shouldst know , for ' tis forbid , what end for thee or me The Gods may have assigned ; nor do thou try ever , Leuconoë , Tables of the Chaldees . How much more wise , whate ...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus. XI . TO LEUCONOË . SEEK not that thou shouldst know , for ' tis forbid , what end for thee or me The Gods may have assigned ; nor do thou try ever , Leuconoë , Tables of the Chaldees . How much more wise , whate ...
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... seeking thee out ; whom thou ( As , when seeing a wolf in the vale's farthest part , A stag trembles with fear , nor of the pasture thinks ) Timid , then shalt avoid , panting with deep - heaved breath , Never promising THIS thy love ...
... seeking thee out ; whom thou ( As , when seeing a wolf in the vale's farthest part , A stag trembles with fear , nor of the pasture thinks ) Timid , then shalt avoid , panting with deep - heaved breath , Never promising THIS thy love ...
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... seek for the arbutus Which there concealed lurks , straying in search of thyme , The spouses of a lusty husband , Fearing no longer the green - backed lizards ; Nor more the young goats dread the fierce Martial wolves ; Whene'er with ...
... seek for the arbutus Which there concealed lurks , straying in search of thyme , The spouses of a lusty husband , Fearing no longer the green - backed lizards ; Nor more the young goats dread the fierce Martial wolves ; Whene'er with ...
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Apollo arbutus ARCHYTAS Bacchus Barbiton beauteous billows breast bright Cæcuban Cæsar calm canst cruel Cyprus Damalis dare death Deity dispel Dost thou doth dread dust e'en e'er earth ENGLISH VERSE Eurus ev'ry fate Faunus fear fetters fire friends Gainst glad wine glide Glycera Gods grace grove hath haughty triumph head upraise hostile hurled ICCIUS implore Jove Lamia Latium Lesbian lest LEUCONOË Life's little span locks loveth LYDIA maid MECENAS MERCURY mind Muse myrtle ne'er neath the green NEREUS nought o'er o'erthrow ODES OF HORACE once original measures paternal Pholoë plain pow'r praise prayers proud Pyrrha realms RICHARD O'BRIEN sailor Salian Scythian seek shalt thou Shining ships sing Sire sportive echo steeds sunny sweet swift winds tender Teucer THALIARCHUS Thessalian Thou dost thou shalt thou shouldst Thracian thy love Tibur toil TYNDARIS unto unwarlike lyre Venus Vesta virgins waves whate'er whence whilst wont youth