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
asking count everyday fortune grants happen refrain
Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
city country distant oh praise rome stars
In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
city country distant oh praise rome stars
In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
country sweet glorious
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
country country-love able
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
country rome sky
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
country race towns
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
country pursuit dear
Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.
country sweet latin
It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.
country sweet patriotic
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
country escape fugitive
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
country grow toward
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)
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.
country growing-up men
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.