"Horatian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the very form of the moon herself is compelled to descend from her position in the universe at her command. For the various compositions and incantations in common use, it must be sufficient to refer to the pages of the Roman poets. The forms of incantation and horrid rites of the Horatian Sagana Canidia (Epod. v. and Sat. i. 8), or the scenes described by the pompous verses of the poet of the civil war (De Bello Civili, vi.), where all nature is subservient, are of a similar kind, but more familiar, in the dramatic ...
— The Superstitions of Witchcraft • Howard Williams
... attempt to reproduce the passionate fluctuations and supposed disorder of his model. The study of Pindar, however, trained Ronsard in the handling of sustained periods of verse, and interested him in complex lyrical combinations. His Anacreontic and Horatian odes are far happier; among these some of his most delightful work is found. If he was deficient in great ideas, he had delicacy of sentiment and an exquisite sense of metrical harmony. The power which he possessed as a narrative poet appears best in episodes ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... Horatian wisdom, clear-eyed, cynical and friendly, leaps up once again from the dust of the centuries, a clean bright flame, and brings joyousness and ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... allusion which seems to stand in need of explanation, is that indicated by the name Wilhelm, towards the end of the poem. This is the Christian name of his friend Kuechelbecher, since dead, and whose family name was hardly harmonious enough to enter Pushkin's line, and was therefore omitted on the Horatian principle—"versu quod dicere nolim." We now ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various |
