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Title: Horace
Author: William Tuckwell
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HORACE
[Illustration: [_Bib. Nat., Paris._
HORACE.
From a bronze medallion of the period of Constantine.]
Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers
HORACE
by
REV. W. TUCKWELL, M.A.
Author of "Chaucer," Etc.
[Illustration]
London
George Bell & Sons
1905
Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co.
Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Struggle 9
Success 19
Satires and Epistles 30
Odes and Epodes 51
Swan-Song 74
The Wines of Horace 82
Chronology 85
Index 87
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
TO FACE PAGE
Horace, from a Bronze Medallion _Frontispiece_
Brutus 12
Maecenas 16
The Site of Horace's Villa 22
The Roman Forum 26
Augustus 46
Virgil
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