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... stores The wealth of Libyan threshing - floors . While him who loves to plough and till His own paternal acres still , Not Attalus with all his gold Will ever tempt to leave his hold , B And in a Cyprian bark to brave , A timid TO MECENAS.
... stores The wealth of Libyan threshing - floors . While him who loves to plough and till His own paternal acres still , Not Attalus with all his gold Will ever tempt to leave his hold , B And in a Cyprian bark to brave , A timid TO MECENAS.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus. And in a Cyprian bark to brave , A timid sailor , storm and wave . The merchant , scared by ocean's strife , Praises repose and country life , But presently fresh ships he finds , For poverty is worse than winds ...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus. And in a Cyprian bark to brave , A timid sailor , storm and wave . The merchant , scared by ocean's strife , Praises repose and country life , But presently fresh ships he finds , For poverty is worse than winds ...
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... brave hearts , who've known worse pain ; To - morrow o'er the sea we'll sail again . ' VIII . TO LYDIA . Lydia , by all the gods besought , What is it you are doing ? Why has your love so quickly brought Young Sybaris to ruin ? Why ...
... brave hearts , who've known worse pain ; To - morrow o'er the sea we'll sail again . ' VIII . TO LYDIA . Lydia , by all the gods besought , What is it you are doing ? Why has your love so quickly brought Young Sybaris to ruin ? Why ...
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... brave appear ? IX . TO A FRIEND . You see Soracte's white with snow , Woods groan beneath their weight ; The running streams no longer flow , For frost has changed their state . Let's drive away the cold and heap The blazing hearth with ...
... brave appear ? IX . TO A FRIEND . You see Soracte's white with snow , Woods groan beneath their weight ; The running streams no longer flow , For frost has changed their state . Let's drive away the cold and heap The blazing hearth with ...
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... the hare . But she , who felt no woman's fear Of death or hostile brands , She rather chose a glorious bier , Than life in distant lands . She saw her palace ruin - struck , And brave Book I. 37 THE FALL OF CLEOPATRA.
... the hare . But she , who felt no woman's fear Of death or hostile brands , She rather chose a glorious bier , Than life in distant lands . She saw her palace ruin - struck , And brave Book I. 37 THE FALL OF CLEOPATRA.
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