Horace

ET 's poems were circulating at least by 1714, in manuscript, or in the opportunistic publications of others, or both. After her death William Duncombe printed one of her imitations of odes by Horace which...

William and John Duncombe 's The Works of Horace in English Verse, 1757-9 (partly their own work, partly the fruit of years of collecting), included two translations by ET , one dating from 1714...

VA and Sylvia Townsend Warner are buried together in the churchyard of the East Chaldon Church. The stone reads Non omnis moriar, an epitaph that VA chose.

After her death, STW 's house, full of a jumble of possessions and mementoes, was occupied at first by a friend of hers, but later by a tenant who was hostile and systematically burned anything...

The couple had four daughters and a son. One of the daughters produced an English verse translation of Horace which Samuel Johnson assessed as very well for a young Miss's verses—though...

Jourdain had published a translation of Horace 's Odes in 1904 and the important History of English Secular Embroidery in 1910: in the latter year she also published almost sixty articles on a wide variety...

Her closest friends in childhood were Jemima Campbell (later Marchioness Grey) and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory) .

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

This title-page quotes from Horace , Lyttelton , and Addison . The first tale, Genius (told partly in letters), fills volume one, and the second, Enthusiasm, volumes two and three. Both attributes are presented...

DPC was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace on her title-page, Pope to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer , Shakespeare , Goldsmith ...

The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by...

The story is set in a Scottish border castle in the reign of Henry VII . ES again quotes learnedly: Ariosto and Petrarch in the original Italian, and Horace in Latin. The widowed Gertrude Baroness...

MC was said to have loved poetry from her childhood. She admired George Herbert , and Horace in English translation, because of their freedom from heroic or military sentiment.

Though she based the Letters on fact, DM explicitly shaped them to the tradition of d'Aulnoy 's fictional travel-letters about Spain. And even her quest for solitude was patterned after Horace and Cowley .

The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love...