Marcus Clarke

Name: "Horace" in the Bush
Author: Marcus Clarke

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“"Horace" in the Bush”, published in 1896, is a work by Marcus Clarke. It explores elements such as O'Donoghue, M'Taggart and Jack Junk.

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Marcus Clarke, "Horace" in the Bush (1896)

“ Marston started.
"You seem familiar with the poet," said he.
The stranger smiled sadly.
"Sir," he answered, "I have spent my life in exposing plagiarisms from my--from Horace's writings. It is melancholy to see how the so-called 'original' writers have pilfered from the ancients."
"Sit down, sir and join us!" cries Marton, fairly astride his hobby. "What will you take?"
"You have no Massic?" asked the guest, seating himself.
"To be sure we have," says honest Dibdin. "Coppinger, hot whisky to the gentleman."
The stranger smiled and proceeded. "The moderns are thieves."
"They are," said Marston. ”

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Marcus Clarke, "Horace" in the Bush (1896)

“ We turned and saw the box passenger, a comfortable, well-dressed fellow with blear eyes.
"Do you mean to say," cried Marston, fired at the interruption, "that Horace did not copy from the Greek? Why, that elegant Epicurean was swaddled in Greek literature. The classics of his day were birched into him by Old Orbilius. He was Greek even in his politics, first a republican, and then a monarchist."
"He has been copied even in that," said the new comer; "there is nothing like free land selection to make your radicals conservative. ”

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Marcus Clarke, "Horace" in the Bush (1896)

“ With Jack Junk home from sea!"
"Hear! Hear!" roared the Professor, banging on the table, "Habet! Habet! He's got it, by Hercules! A delicate paraphrase, if ever there was one."
But Didbin snored unconscious.
"Another strain, O most musical of strangers! No? Another drink then!"
"We won't go home till morning," roars O'Donoghue, "dum rediens jugat asthra Phaybus. Till the early milk froightens the cats from door-step. Hurroo! Nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus. Now's the time to shake a loose leg, boys!"
"Let us batter down a door," cries M'Taggart.
"Or filch a sign," says Marston. ”

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Marcus Clarke, "Horace" in the Bush (1896)

“ When you're bald as a bandicot, then, Jack, 'Twill be time to be solemn and slow.
Chorus
In the spring time, life's music was playing, Do we pause in the melody's flow; In the winter--the cause for delaying Is, of course, Jack, to rosin the bow!"
"Euge! Euge!" cried Marston, "but the last verse is not a paraphrase on the original."
"True," said the stranger, "The last verse contains an allusion that likes me not. The 'risus ah angulo', the 'laugh from the corner' might be thought to hint at Ballarat and its Stock Exchange."
"By the mass" says O'Donoghue, "but the strain is worthy of Trinity. ”

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Marcus Clarke, "Horace" in the Bush (1896)

“ Baktrion epi tauton me gar de melathalainon. Poluphlois ketikimboun, kai kikety rolopoloios,'
"If that's not Homer, it's mighty like him," cries O'Donoghue. "Ah, ye deceaver, it's gibberish you're talking. Marston, hand me the impty bottle that I may throw it at him."
"Brawling in your cups, gentlemen! Fie! That is but barbarian at best. As Horace says--
'Natis in usum laetitiae scyphis, Pugnare Thracum est,'
or, as a countryman of your friend's has translated it--
'To foight over punch is like Donnybrook fair, When an Irishman, all in his glory, is there. Hould your whist! ”

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Marcus Clarke, "Horace" in the Bush (1896)

“ Mithers must be no gainsaid-- Come and mak' thy weddin' bed, Bonnie Peggy, by me!"
"Maist indecent, sir," said M'Taggart. "I'll no believe it o' Rabbie. And yet I confess that the similes are unco alike."
Marston burst into Homeric laughter.
"Virginibus puerisque canto," said our guest with a blush. "I'm singing-master at the common school, and am not used to such warmth of language--save on occasions."
"Faith, then, this is one of them," said O'Donoghue. "There's Dibdin half-seas-over already. It takes an Irishman to drink whisky. ”

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Marcus Clarke, "Horace" in the Bush (1896)

“ Damn my eyes, To get drunk with a shipmate is proper! I drink first! No! Well, lest a dispute should arise, We'll decide it by skying a copper.3
Now wet t'other eye, man! Poll, lass, me old wife, It ain't often I get on the spree; But if even I mean to get sprung in my life, It is now! ”

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Marcus Clarke, "Horace" in the Bush (1896)

“ He was n-no p-p-plagiarist."
"Didbin!" cried the stranger, leaping to his feet with an agility which in a person teres atque rotundus was simply marvellous. "Charles Didbin! The most unblushing scoundrel of them all! That 'O saepe mecum' ode of which you were speaking when I entered has been transferred bodily to Didbin's pages in the following infamous travistie":--
JACK JUNK'S RETURN TO WAPPING.
"Jack Junk, my old comrade, what fortunate breeze Has blown you to Wapping and me? Jack Junk, with whom after I ploughed the salt seas, When Blake sailed to Trincomalee. ”

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