...victims ; twine for them Of rosemary a simple coronal, And the lush myrtle's frail and fragrant stem. " The costliest sacrifice that wealth can make From...poorest cake, If on the altar laid with spotless hands." Again, in his masterly sketch of tive, passionate, and dauntless in woCleopatra, Horace has risen to...

...victims ; twine for them Of rosemary a simple coronal, And the lush myrtle's frail and fragrant stem. The costliest sacrifice that wealth can make From...poorest cake, If on the altar laid with spotless hands. ODE XXIV. TO THE COVETOUS. THOUGH them, of wealth possess'd Beyond rich Ind's, or Araby's the blest,...

...victims ; twine for them Of rosemary a simple coronal, And the lush myrtle's frail and fragrant stem. The costliest sacrifice that wealth can make From...poorest cake, If on the altar laid with spotless hands. ODE XXIV. TO THE COVETOUS. *£^ HOUGH thou, of wealth possess'd Beyond rich Ind's, or Araby's the blest,...

...victims ; twine for them Of rosemary a simple coronal, And the lush myrtle's frail and fragrant stem. The costliest sacrifice that wealth can make From...poorest cake, If on the altar laid with spotless hands. H ODE XXIV. TO -THE COVETOUS. j, HOUGH thou, of wealth possess'd Beyond rich Ind's, or Araby's the...

...savour than all the burnt-offerings of the rich. " The costliest sacrifice that wealth can make, Prom the incensed Penates less commands A soft response,...importunities of the Chorus. He will not cause fresh pain to CEdipus, he says, by recalling his sorrows. This " abject garb and aspect of despair" tell their own...

...victims ; twine for them Of rosemary a simple coronal, And the lush myrtle's frail and fragrant stem. " The costliest sacrifice that wealth can make From...poorest cake, If on the altar laid with spotless hands." the Epicurean creed of his youth. He had come to believe in the active intervention of a Supreme Disposer...

...victims ; twine for them Of rosemary a simple coronal, And the lush myrtle's frail and fragrant stem. " The costliest sacrifice that wealth can make From...poorest cake, If on the altar laid with spotless hands." When this was written, Horace had got far beyond the Epicurean creed of his youth. He had come" to...

...surely be more acceptable from the pure hands of his daughters than from his, who had been " a man of war from his youth." So Horace afterwards declared...importunities of the Chorus. He will not cause fresh pain to CEdipus, he says, by recalling his sorrows. This "abject garb and aspect of despair " tell their own...

...driven us to offend her. Neither the gods nor the good man, says Plato, accept the gift of the wicked. The costliest sacrifice that wealth can make From...poorest cake, If on the altar laid with spotless hands. (HORACE.) CHAPTER 57 OF AGE I CANNOT accept the way in which we fix the span of our lives. I have observed...

..." The costliest «»orifice that wealth can make From the incensed Pénate«' less command« A toft response, than doth the poorest cake, If on the altar laid with spotless hands." Again, in his masterly »ketch of tire, passionate, and dauntless in wo1 t4p»tra, Ногдсе has...