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Horace
Horace (
c.65–08 bc) Roman poet, b. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. His first
Satires appeared in
c.35 bc, and were followed by
Epodes (
c.30 bc),
Odes (
c.23 bc),
Epistles (
c.20 bc), and
Ars Poetica (
c.19 bc). His simple Latin lyrics provided a vivid picture of the Augustan age.
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Horace Made New: Horation Influences on British Writing from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...prepared to mark the bimillennium of Horace's death, joins Virgil and his Influence...have traditionally dominated criticism of Horace. The traditional description of Horatian...can be replaced by an approach in which Horace used his poetry as an act of self-fashioning...
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Horace Rabbit and the Carrot Creature. (short story)
Magazine article from: Children's Playmate; 1/1/1996; 700+ words
; Winter was always a i cult time for Horace Rabbit and his family. When the snow...One blustery day, Father Rabbit called Horace to the kitchen. "Our supplies are running...food?" he asked. "Oh, yes!" cried Horace. Father's eyes twinkled. "You can...
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Horace Mann and the Commerce Group, Inc. Form Marketing Alliance.
Business Wire; 10/18/2001; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2001 Horace Mann Educators Corporation (NYSE:HMN...agency agreement between Commerce and Horace Mann Service Corporation, a licensed...agency in the State of Massachusetts, Horace Mann will provide its customers with Commerce...
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Horace Mann and The Commerce Group, Inc. Form Marketing Alliance.
Business Wire; 10/18/2001; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2001 Horace Mann Educators Corporation (NYSE: HMN...agency agreement between Commerce and Horace Mann Service Corporation, a licensed...agency in the State of Massachusetts, Horace Mann will provide its customers with Commerce...
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Horace's 'Epistle 1.16.' (poem by ancient Latin poet)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Horace's Epistle 1.16 is a poem of peculiarities...Quinctius" is, in the very first line, and Horace does not thereafter enlighten us. It is...usual Horatian touches of wit and humor. Horace's Sabine farm, a gift of his patron...
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Horace's SATIRE 2.6.5.
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Satire 2.6 is perhaps Horace's most famous, and it anticipates his Epistles...farm. Tradition has it that Maecenas "gave" Horace the farm. But did Maecenas give it outright, or only let Horace use it? The poem starts "Hoc erat in votis...
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Horace and the construction of the English Victorian gentleman.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Helios; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the role in this self-fashioning of Horace, in some ways the most congenial of Latin...his fellow Augustan poet Vergil, (2) Horace remained popular among general as well...literary figures that they were put off Horace in youth by unimaginative school tuition...
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HORACE MANN FINDS POPULARITY ELUSIVE MANN CHARTERS FIND POPULARITY ELUSIVE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; The Barnstable Horace Mann Charter School doesn't have a charterlike...mixed messages," and the Barnstable Horace Mann Charter School would seem to be doing...of the districts in which they reside. Horace Mann charters, however, are a hybrid...
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Horace's School: Redesigning The American High School.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Catholic Education; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; HORACE'S SCHOOL: REDESIGNING THE AMERICAN HIGH...Although written 12 years ago, Sizer's work Horace's School remains timely, calling educators...the majority of American high schools. In Horace's Compromise, the first book in the trilogy...
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Horace: Poetics and Politics.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Horace: Poetics and Politics, by V.G. Kiernan...undying love for the ancient Roman poet Horace, and since then has learned nothing more...which apparently entitles him to write about Horace. While Kiernan's devotion to the Classics...
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Horace Mann Educators Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Horace Mann Educators Corporation 1 Horace Mann Plaza Springfield, Illinois 62715-0001 U.S.A...Companies, Not Elsewhere Classified An insurance holding company, Horace Mann Educators Corporation is a leading insurer serving educators...
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Horace
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Horace Horace (65-8 B.C.), or Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was a Roman lyric poet...is generally considered one of the greatest lyric poets of the world. Horace's boast was to have been "the first to have brought over Aeolian song...
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Horace Bushnell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Horace Bushnell The Congregational clergyman Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) was the pivotal American theologian...scholasticism and established the basis for religious liberalism. Horace Bushnell was born April 14, 1802, at Bantam, Conn. He...
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Silver, Horace
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Horace Silver Jazz pianist and composer Provided...x201D; for Younger Players In 1996 Horace Silver released a recording called The HardbopGrandpop...of jazz classics that continues to grow. Horace Silver was born on September 2, 1928 in...
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Mann, Horace (1796–1859)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
MANN, HORACE (1796 – 1859) Principal advocate...nineteenth-century common school movement, Horace Mann became the catalyst for tuition...and political thought for generations. Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts...
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