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
giving water long
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
feet long toss
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
men long parent
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
wine long firsts
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.
sleep long may
In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
sleep long bonus
I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer. [Lat., Et idem Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]
hate taken long
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
long grapes
Don't long for the unripe grape.
food water long
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
long add deliberation
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
broken long our-actions
As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.
long kitchen resources
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
long alive journalism
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
teacher teaching long
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.