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Imagine, only, a chorus with flying and dishevelled hair and dress, tambourines, cymbals, &c., in their hands, like the Bacchants we see on bas-reliefs, bursting impetuously into the orchestra, and executing their inspired dances amidst tumultuous music, a circumstance, altogether unusual, as the choral odes were generally sung and danced at a solemn step, and with no other accompaniment than a flute.
The Chorus of men believe that Athenian ambassadors should go to Sparta in their cups: "As it is, whenever we go there sober, we immediately see what mischief we can make. We never hear what they say; what they do not say we conjecture and never bring back the same tale about the same facts." Odes of thanksgiving wind up the piece.
It is impossible to put it down. It interrupts the business of dining and results in cold food and indigestion. A book of short poems the Odes of Horace, the Fables of La Fontaine, the Sonnets of Shakespeare or Wordsworth is much more to the purpose.
This is the case with the odes of Horace. To understand all that they meant to say to contemporaries, one must imagine Roman society as it was then, hardly out of a century of conquests and revolutions, in disorder, unbalanced, and still crude, notwithstanding the luxuries and refinements superficially imitated from the Orient; a society eager to enjoy, yet still ill educated to exercise upon itself that discipline of good taste, without which civilisation and its pleasures aggravate more than restrain the innate brutality of men.
They sang to, him also the odes of the Minor Ya and the Greater Ya; and they sang finally the pieces of the Sung. Fourth. We may appeal in this matter to the words of Confucius himself. To my own mind the evidence that has been adduced is decisive on the points which I specified.
Others assert it to be none other than the "coral insect," which does not exist save in the minds of those who write odes to such creatures: "Ye build, ye build, but ye enter not in, Like the tribes whom the desert devoured in their sin."
We are ourselves, it is but too well known, altogether without pretensions to that high office and really see no great charms either in the salary or the connexion and, for the glory of writing such verses as we have now been reviewing, we do not believe that there is a scribbler in the kingdom so vile as to think it a thing to be coveted. Epistles, Odes, and other Poems.
When leisure awoke a question as to how he should employ it, he would generally take up his Horace and read aloud one of his more mournful odes with such attention to the rhythm, I must add, as, although plentiful enough among scholars in respect of the dead letter, is rarely found with them in respect of the living vocal utterance.
Show me the student who did not keep glowing odes deep-buried in his lecture notes deep-buried as the gigantic grief of some heroic soul.... And one afternoon she appeared at the skating rink. She wore a gleaming plush jacket trimmed with sealskin, and a fur cap which sat jauntily over her left ear.
Augustus, who must have known something about the system, avowedly aimed at restoring the number, the purity, the privileged exclusiveness of the dominant race. His legislation was an attempt to regenerate old Rome; and the political odes of the court poet are full of that purpose.
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