The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace

by Horace

PAGE 98.

Of studying truths that rick and poor concern,
Which young and old are lost unless they learn.

This may seem borrowed from Cowper's "Tirocinium," —truths on which depend our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn; but I believe the resemblance to be purely accidental. It may serve however to show that the more serious passages in Horace, as well as the lighter ones, are not unlike Cowper.