This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ODE III TO THE SHIP IN WHICH VERGIL SAILED TO ATHENS Horace is said to have been forty-seven years old when he composed this beautiful farewell upon the occasion of Vergil's departure for Greece, where he was going to finish the iEneid. A noted commentator has written: "Had Horace foreseen what was to happen, he could ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ODE III TO THE SHIP IN WHICH VERGIL SAILED TO ATHENS Horace is said to have been forty-seven years old when he composed this beautiful farewell upon the occasion of Vergil's departure for Greece, where he was going to finish the iEneid. A noted commentator has written: "Had Horace foreseen what was to happen, he could scarcely have expressed his grief in a more affectionate manner than he does in this ode; the first eight lines of which have something in them admirably tender, and the rest very grand; for nothing can be more finished in its kind than this ode." The original is faced in this volume by the admirable version made by John Dryden and inscribed to the Earl of Roscommon at the time of his intended voyage to Ireland. This translation appeared in 1685, in Dryden's "Miscellaneous Poems" dedicated "to Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon." It may be compared with Gladstone's more recent rendering which follows: -- So may the Queen of Cyprian heights, So Helen's brethren, starry lights, So speed thy course the Lord of wind, And all, save Zephyr, fastly bind: O Ship, thou hast a debt to pay, Our Vergil: hold him well, I pray, Unharmed to Attic bounds consign, And save that life, the half of mine. 'T was armed with oak and triple brass, His breast, who first made bold to pass In fragile bark the truculent seas, Nor feared the boding Hyades, Nor south-west wind at war with north, Nor headlong Notus blustering forth, Like whom no tyrant Adria sways The tempest to allay or raise. All forms of death will he defy Who views rude waves with tearless eye, Sea-monsters, and thy deadly sweep, Thou sheer Acroceraunian steep. Of purpose Heaven by severing main Divided lands; but all in vain If rebel ships, in Heaven's despite, May leap the waves, and lands unite. For men...
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