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horace-works_162		horace-works_162			.txt	text/plain	5697	186	64	As leaves in the woods are changed with the fleeting years; the earliest fall off first: in this manner words perish with old age, and those lately invented nourish and thrive, like men in the time of youth. How much more to the purpose he, who attempts nothing improperly?" Sing for me, my muse, the man who, after the time of the destruction of Troy, surveyed the manners and cities of many men." He meditates not[ to produce] smoke from a flash, but out of smoke to elicit fire, that he may thence bring forth his instances of the marvelous with beauty,[ such as] Antiphates, Scylla, the Cyclops, and Charybdis. Sometimes a play, that is showy with commonplaces, and where the manners are well marked, though of no elegance, without force or art, gives the people much higher delight and more effectually commands their attention, than verse void of matter, and tuneful trifles.	./cache/horace-works_162.txt	./txt/horace-works_162.txt