"Horatian ode" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say, have an excellence of a different character and a higher degree. They have so much authentic dignity that "the glorious name of the British Aristides" really seems duller when it is conferred as the earnings of the Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland than when it inappropriately clings to Andrew Marvell, cherry-cheeked, caught in the tendrils of his vines and melons. He shall be, therefore, the British Aristides in those moments of midsummer solitude; at least, the ...
— Flower of the Mind • Alice Meynell |
