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Download or read book The Works of Horace, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Horace Horace and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Horace, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated Into English Verse, With a Life and Notes Among the huts where poor men lie. Like these great lyrists, too, Horace was proud Of his origin. After he had become the intimate associate of the first men in Rome - nay, the bosom friend of the generals and states men who ruled the world - he was at pains on more occasions than one to call attention to the fact of his humble birth, and to let it be known that, had he to begin life anew, he was so far from desiring a better ancestry that he would, like Andrew Marvell, have made his destiny his choice. Inor is this done with the pretentious affectation of the parvenu, eager to bring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.