 | John Milton - 1904 - 312 pages
...brought back my night. [TRANSLATIONS] THE FIFTH ODE OF HORACE, LIB. I. Quis multA gracihs te puer In ros& Rendered almost word for word, without rhyme, according...Latin measure, as near as the language will permit. WHAT slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1905 - 648 pages
...ODE OF HORACE, LIB. I., Quis multd gracilis te puer in rosd, Rendered almost word for word, wilhout rhyme, according to the Latin measure, as near as the language will permit, WHAT slender youth, bedewed with liquid. odours, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha?... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1908 - 612 pages
...otherwise with the famous version of the Pyrrha ode of Horace. Milton himself tells us that this is rendered " almost word for word without rhyme, according...Latin measure, as near as the language will permit." Now this "Latin measure" is (and it must be remembered that Milton carefully subjoins the Latin text)... | |
 | John Milton - 1908 - 586 pages
...n The rest was Prose. The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib, I. Quis multa gracilis te puer in Rosa, Rendred almost word for word without Rhyme according to the...Latin Measure, as near as the Language will permit. WHAT slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave, Pyrrha for... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1909 - 254 pages
...of the original. Take the first stanza of Milton's rendering, " almost word for word without rime, according to the Latin measure, as near as the language will permit " : — " What slender youth bedew' d with liquid odours, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave,... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 408 pages
...back my night [TRANSLATIONS.] THE FIFTH ODE OF HORACE, LIB. I., QttU multAgncilis te puer in resd, Rendered almost word for word, without rhyme, according...Latin measure, as near as the language will permit WHAT slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - English poetry - 1922 - 766 pages
...the more impressive. THE TRANSLATION FROM HORACE Milton's famous version of Horace's ode to Pyrrha, "rendered almost word for word, without rhyme, according...Latin measure, as near as the language will permit," is probably better known to-day among Latin students than among the writers or readers of English verse.... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 442 pages
...them, Honour'd Margaret. 1644-5THE FIFTH ODE OF HORACE. LIB. I. "Quis multa gracilis te puer in Rosa." Rendered almost word for word without Rhyme according...Latin Measure, as near as the Language will permit. WHAT slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave, Pyrrha for... | |
 | James Holly Hanford - 1926 - 334 pages
...translation appeared in the 1673 edition, the remarkably ingenious version of Horace's "Quis multa gracilis," "rendered almost word for word without Rhyme according...Latin Measure, as near as the Language will permit." Other fragmentary bits (generally in blank verse) from classic and Italian authors are scattered through... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...Priest writ Large. ao 158 The Fifth Ode o/Horace. Lib. I Quis multa gracilis te puer in Rosa, Rendred almost word for word without Rhyme according to the...Latin Measure, as near as the Language will permit. WHAT slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave, Pyrrba for... | |
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