The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius FlaccusG. and W. Nicol; Cadell and Davies; R.H. Evans; W. Bulmer and Company, 1817 - Latin poetry |
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... Juvenal's age , has left nothing to be desired on the only topicks which could interest posterity , his parent , his preceptor , and his course of studies . AN ESSAY ON THE ROMAN SATIRISTS . It will now xlviii THE LIFE OF JUVENAL .
... Juvenal's age , has left nothing to be desired on the only topicks which could interest posterity , his parent , his preceptor , and his course of studies . AN ESSAY ON THE ROMAN SATIRISTS . It will now xlviii THE LIFE OF JUVENAL .
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Perse, Juvénal. AN ESSAY ON THE ROMAN SATIRISTS . It will now be expected from me , perhaps , to say something on the ... Romans ; which he prefixed to his translation of Juvenal . What Dryden knew , he told in a manner that renders every ...
Perse, Juvénal. AN ESSAY ON THE ROMAN SATIRISTS . It will now be expected from me , perhaps , to say something on the ... Romans ; which he prefixed to his translation of Juvenal . What Dryden knew , he told in a manner that renders every ...
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... Romans , like those of every other people , were pious effusions for favours received or expected from the gods : Of these , the earliest , according to Varro , were the hymns to Mars , which , though used by the Salii in the Augustan ...
... Romans , like those of every other people , were pious effusions for favours received or expected from the gods : Of these , the earliest , according to Varro , were the hymns to Mars , which , though used by the Salii in the Augustan ...
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... Romans ; until , about a century afterwards , and during the ravages of a dreadful pestilence , the senate , as the ... ROMAN SATIRISTS . li.
... Romans ; until , about a century afterwards , and during the ravages of a dreadful pestilence , the senate , as the ... ROMAN SATIRISTS . li.
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... Romans were unacquainted with the language of Tuscany , the players , Livy tells us , omitted the modulation and the words , and con- fined themselves solely to gestures , which were accompanied by the flute . This imperfect exhí ...
... Romans were unacquainted with the language of Tuscany , the players , Livy tells us , omitted the modulation and the words , and con- fined themselves solely to gestures , which were accompanied by the flute . This imperfect exhí ...
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Page 201 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
Page 52 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Page 17 - Whether any changes were subsequently introduced, is not certainly known, but we here find, that money was again distributed : perhaps, the choice was in the patron. The sum was a hundred quadrantes, pieces something less than a farthing, and making in all about fifteen-pence of our money. As this is the first...
Page 209 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Page xi - I recollect the occasion of my first attempt : it is, like all the rest of my non-adventures, of so unimportant a nature, that I should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for an ale-house : it was to have been a lion, but the unfortunate artist produced a dog.
Page 114 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 45 - There is a method in man's wickedness; It grows up by degrees: I am not come So high as killing of myself; there are A hundred thousand sins 'twixt me and it, Which I must do; and I shall come to't at last, But, take my oath, not now.
Page 168 - Of women's looks ; but digg'd myself a cave, Where I, my fire, my cattle, and my bed, Might have been shut together in one shed ; And then had taken me some mountain girl, Beaten with winds, chaste as the...
Page 62 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 201 - There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes. And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader ! set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game. [Trumpet within. All. The Trojans