Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
dominated frown gone literature modernist prize scientific since time trend
It's been a long time since the prize has gone to someone like that. Esthetic literature has dominated because, I think, the modernist trend has been to frown upon scientific literature,
community direction district great help opportunity work
It's great to have the opportunity to be able to come to Diboll and work with the community and work with the children, and be able to go into another direction and help the district excel.
adversity ashes came fires life national passed republic springs work
The Republic need to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering; so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes
event prophets prove sure wisest
Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first
bad rather tried
I'd rather have a bad day doing something I like than have a bad day doing something I don't like. We just tried to come in here and compete.
country grow toward
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)
american-editor grow
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
moderation including moderates
Be moderate in everything, including moderation.
ignorance england providence
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
intellect educated persons
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
country war blood
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been anxious to stop the further effusion of blood, and he trusted that everything would now be done to restore harmony and conciliate the people of the South. He said the emancipation of the Negroes would be no hindrance to the restoring of relations between the two sections of the country, as it would probably not be the desire of the majority of the Southern people to restore slavery then, even if the question were left open to them.
play ensemble band
The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.
jazz backgrounds background-music
Jazz is not background music.
music swings bebop
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.