[Sidenote: Odes ii, 13, 35] Claudius was a trifle perturbed (it was a little white bitch he used to keep for a pet) when he spied this black shag-haired hound, not at all the kind of thing you could wish to meet in the dark.

Hewho knows how to construe a few pages of the classics, who knows how to demonstrate a few mathematical problems, scan a few verses, recite a few odes, carry on a few scientific experiments, undertake a small researchhow shall he compete with these rulers of the thought of men?

I SACRIFICIAL ODES OF CHOW ~Appropriate to a Sacrifice to King Wan~

Horace, for instance, in one of his odes, attempts to prove that the overflowings of rivers were reckoned among bad presages; and pretends that the Tiber had not committed all those ravages, but in complaisance to his wife Ilia, who was bent on the death of his kinsman Caesar; and that all the other calamities which subsequently afflicted or threatened the Roman empire, were the consequences of his assassination.

In all Gray's Odes, there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away....

Horace, Odes, iv. 3.2, quoted also ante, i.352, note.

Horace, Odes, ii.14.

Horace, 2 Odes, i. 24.

i. p. 92, note,) has favoured me with two English odes, written by Dr. Johnson, at an early period of his life, which will appear in my edition of his poems.

Drummond excels in madrigals, or canzonetsbaby-odes or songswhich have more of wing and less of thought than sonnets.

" Odes, ii. 14, ll. 21-29. 4to.

[205] Horace, Odes, ii. 14.

Odes, i. 2. See ante, ii.

His Odes composed but a small part of his writings.

384, n. 2; Cumberland's Odes, iii. 43, n. 3; iv 432; Dane, letter from a, v. 46, n. 2; Davies, letter from, iii. 223, n. 2; Davy, called, v. 348; death, his, iii. 371; 'eclipsed the gaiety of nations,' i. 82; iii. 387; decayed actor, will soon be a, ii. 439; decent liver, a, iii. 387; declaimer, no, iv.

392, n. 1 (see just below under Johnson); happy moments for writing, i. 203, n. 3; Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1; Johnson criticises the Elegy, i. 403; ii. 328, n. 2; finds two good stanzas, ii. 328; criticises the Odes, i. 403; ii. 164, 327, 335; iv.

HORACE, Art of Poetry, a contested passage in the, iii. 73-5; Carmen Seculare set to music, iii. 373; Mr. Tasker's version, ib., n. 3; cheerfulness, iii. 251; inconstancy, ib.; editions collected by Douglas, iv. 279; gratitude to his father, iii. 12; Hamilton's Imitations, iii. 151; Johnson translates Odes, i. 22, and ii. 9; i. 51-2; and Ode, iv.

v. 101, n. 2; 1 Odes, ii. 21, i. 483, n. 4; 1 Odes, xii.

v. 101, n. 2; 1 Odes, ii. 21, i. 483, n. 4; 1 Odes, xii.

356, n. 3; 1 Odes, xxii.

140; 1 Odes, xxiv.

140; 1 Odes, xxxiv.

215, n. 4; 2 Odes, i. 4, i. 207; 2 Odes, i. 24, iv. 374, n. 3; 2 Odes, xvi. 1, v. 163; 2 Odes, xiv., iii. 193; v. 68, n. 2; 2 Odes, xx. 19, iv. 277, n. 2; 3 Odes, i. 34, ii. 207; 3 Odes, ii. 13, i. 181, n. 1; 3 Odes, xxiv. 21, iii. 160, n. 1; 3 Odes, ii., iii. 204; 3 Odes, xxx. 1, ii. 291, n. 3; 4 Odes, iii. 2, i. 351, n. 1; iv. 57, n. 4; 4 Odes, ix. 25, v. 415, n. 3; Epodes, xv.

Some odes of Pindar in new English versions.

He wrote, as a youth, odes, songs, a tragedy, and part of a romance.