Horace

Of the _beauty_ of his home he speaks always modestly; it may not compare with Praeneste, Tarentum, Baiae; its _charm_ he is never weary of extolling. Nowhere, he says, is the a...

Observe, too, how we find in all the Odes as we read them, not only a gallery of historical pictures, nor only an unconscious revelation of the poet's self, of, that is, the lea...

Horace was now thirty-five years old: the Epodes had taught him his power over lyric verse. He had imitated at first the older Roman satirists; here by Maecenas' advice he copie...

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"Septimius, who waits on you with this, is clearly well acquainted with the place you are pleased to allow me in your friendship. For when he beseeches me to recommend him to yo...

ALMA TADEMA. ROSA BONHEUR. BURNE-JONES. CONSTABLE. CORREGGIO. FRA ANGELICO. GAINSBOROUGH. GREUZE. HOGARTH. HOLBEIN. HOLMAN HUNT. LANDSEER. LEIGHTON. MICHELANGELO. MILLAIS. MILLE...