‘O blest is he, from business free’

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‘O blest is he, from business free’

Poet(s)

Horace

Credits

Translator

Campbell, W. A.

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 118:719, 341–342, September 1875.

First line

O blest is he, from business free

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Latin

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the article Horatian Lyrics. The Laird at Home (336-44) by W. A. Campbell (signed Knapdale) (Wellesley Index). It appears in the volume index as ‘O blest is he,’ a paraphrase from Horace (341) (KF). Translator identification: The Wellesley Index. (HR)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9762

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‘O blest is he, from business free’