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Horace and His Influence

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Horace and His Influence, by Grant Showerman

Title: Horace and His Influence

Author: Grant Showerman

Release Date: October 4, 2005 [eBook #16801]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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Our Debt to Greece and Rome

EDITORS

George Depue Hadzsits, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

David Moore Robinson, Ph.D., LL.D.

The Johns Hopkins University

University of Pennsylvania.

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CONTRIBUTORS TO THE "OUR DEBT TO GREECE AND ROME FUND," WHOSE GENEROSITY HAS MADE POSSIBLE THE LIBRARY

Our Debt to Greece and Rome

Philadelphia

  • Dr. Astley P.C. Ashhurst
  • William L. Austin
  • John C. Bell
  • Henry H. Bonnell
  • Jasper Yeates Brinton
  • George Burnham, Jr.
  • John Cadwalader
  • Miss Clara Comegys
  • Miss Mary E. Converse
  • Arthur G. Dickson
  • William M. Elkins
  • H.H. Furness, Jr.
  • William P. Gest
  • John Gribbel
  • Samuel F. Houston
  • Charles Edward Ingersoll
  • John Story Jenks
  • Alba B. Johnson
  • Miss Nina Lea
  • Horatio G. Lloyd
  • George McFadden
  • Mrs. John Markoe
  • Jules E. Mastbaum
  • J. Vaughan Merrick
  • Effingham B. Morris
  • William R. Murphy
  • John S. Newbold
  • S. Davis Page (memorial)
  • Owen J. Roberts
  • Joseph G. Rosengarten
  • William C. Sproul
  • John B. Stetson, Jr.
  • Dr. J. William White (memorial)
  • George D. Widener
  • Mrs. James D. Winsor
  • Owen Wister
  • The Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Liberal Studies.

Boston

  • Oric Bates (memorial)
  • Frederick P. Fish
  • William Amory Gardner
  • Joseph Clark Hoppin

Chicago

  • Herbert W. Wolff

Cincinnati

  • Charles Phelps Taft

Cleveland

  • Samuel Mather

Detroit

  • John W. Anderson
  • Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

  • "A Lover of Greece and Rome"

New York

  • John Jay Chapman
  • Willard V. King
  • Thomas W. Lamont
  • Dwight W. Morrow
  • Mrs. D.W. Morrow
  • Senatori Societatis Philosophiae, ΦΒΚ, gratias maximas agimus
  • Elihu Root
  • Mortimer L. Schiff
  • William Sloane
  • George W. Wickersham
  • And one contributor, who has asked to have his name withheld:
  • Maecenas atavis edite regibus,
  • O et praesidium et dulce decus meum.

Washington

  • The Greek Embassy at Washington, for the Greek Government.

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HORACE
AND HIS INFLUENCE

BY
GRANT SHOWERMAN

Professor of Classics
The University of Wisconsin



 

 

GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO., LTD.
LONDON · CALCUTTA · SYDNEY



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THE PLIMPTON PRESS · NORWOOD · MASSACHUSETTS

 

1922

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To
HOWARD LESLIE SMITH
LOVER OF LETTERS

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SABINE HILLS

On Sabine hills when melt the snows,
Still level-full His river flows;
Each April now His valley fills
With cyclamen and daffodils;
And summers wither with the rose.
Swift-waning moons the cycle close:
Birth,—toil,—mirth,—death; life onward goes
Through harvest heat or winter chills
On Sabine hills.
Yet One breaks not His long repose,
Nor hither comes when Zephyr blows;
In vain the spring's first swallow trills;
Never again that Presence thrills;
One charm no circling season knows
On Sabine hills.

GEORGE MEASON WHICHER ix



EDITORS' PREFACE

The volume on Horace and His Influence by Doctor Showerman is the second to appear in the Series, known as "Our Debt to Greece and Rome."

Doctor Showerman has told the story of this influence in what seems to us the most effective manner possible, by revealing the spiritual qualities of Horace and the reasons for their appeal to many generations of men. These were the crown of the personality and work of the ancient poet, and admiration of them has through successive ages always been a token of aspiration and of a striving for better things.

The purpose of the volumes in this Series will be to show the influence of virtually all of the great forces of the Greek and Roman civilizations upon subsequent life and thought and the extent to which these are interwoven into the fabric of our own life of to-day. Thereby we shall all know more clearly the nature of our inheritance from the past and shall comprehend x

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