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Excerpt from Horatian Echoes: Translations of the Odes of Horace We began our literary life together. Hand in hand, like the Babes in the Wood, we ventured into the untried realm of letters: he, a college senior of twenty; I, a half - trained graduate of about the same age. Side by side our early productions appeared in the same periodicals; and from that day to the year of his death we have kept in friendly relations with each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was born on September 20, 1811 in Gloucester, Massachussets, United States, the second child and eldest son of Epes and Hannah Dane (Coffin) Sargent, his mother being the second of his father's three wives, and he one of a total of twelve children by the different marriages. Both his father and his mother were of families long established in New England, and he enjoyed the best social and educational advantages.
After attending the Boston Latin School, he entered Harvard College, where he distinguished himself for scholarship and took a prominent part in conducting the Collegian, an undergraduate publication. Upon his graduation in 1830 he studied law in Boston.
He was admitted to the bar in January 1834; but a letter he wrote to the Boston Daily Atlas, a Whig newspaper, so impressed the editor that he was engaged to write its political editorials. This led him into politics, and in 1836 and 1837 he was elected to the lower house of the Massachusetts legislature.
Offered an associate editorship by the Courier and Enquirer of New York in 1838, he left Boston to help conduct it till after the election of Harrison to the presidency. He was now in a position of political influence, but the death of the president changed this, and in 1841 he returned to the practice of law in New York.
The candidacy of Taylor brought him back into political journalism, however, for he conducted a publication supporting his candidacy and later went to Washington as joint editor of the Republic, the official organ of the administration. Because of a disagreement with the cabinet he withdrew, but on the accession of Fillmore he rejoined the paper and helped to conduct it, refusing appointment as minister to China to do so.
Though in 1853 he resumed the practice of law in New York, he devoted much time to literary interests. He had already assisted in editing the New England Magazine for January and February 1835, and he had published A Lecture on the Late Improvements in Steam Navigation (1844) and articles on other practical subjects. He now turned towards belles-lettres, rather as a translator than a creator.
After 1861 for about twelve years he spent most of his time in Europe publishing a translation of The Last Knight (1871) from the German of A. A. von Auersperg, several pamphlets on the legal decision in Minot's case, and Chapters for the Times (1884), anti-Blaine campaign literature.
He was influential in making the Board of Overseers of Harvard University include persons from outside Massachusetts, and in 1880 he was elected as the second member from outside the state. From 1886-87 on, he offered a prize of one hundred dollars for the best translation from Horace by a Harvard or Radcliffe student, an award made permanent by his daughter in 1892.
More significant even than his important legal documents and influential political arguments was his interest in Horace. He not only translated the urbane Roman's words but realized his ideal of life to a notable extent. He devoted himself to translating Horace, on which he expended endless pains. Very little of this was published during his life, most of it appearing in Horatian Echoes (1893). Much of what he wrote apart from this is untraceable because of its journalistic character, and some of his substantial work appeared under the name of his brother Epes.
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On Jan. 17, 1854, he married Georgiana, daughter of Benjamin Welles of Boston, by whom he had one daughter.
