The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...Bell & Daldy, 1871 - 512 pages |
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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius William Gifford,Juvenal No preview available - 2015 |
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ancient appears applied arms bear breast called close crime death eyes face father fear fire followed fortune Fragment Gifford give given gods gold Greek hand head hear hence hold honour hour Italy Juvenal kind late live look Lucilius Mart master means mentioned mind nature Nero never night Notes o'er once pass perhaps Persius person Plaut Plin poet poor present probably refers rich Roman Rome round Satire says seems sense side slave stand Suet supposes tell temple thing thou Translated turn vice viii Virg vols whole wife wine wish wretch youth
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Page 219 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 113 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 115 - ... prince himself is such another ; the weight of a hair will turn the scales between their avoirdupois.
Page 245 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 265 - ... augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur, inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
Page 218 - O si urnam argenti fors quae mihi monstret, ut illi, thesauro invento qui mercennarius agrum illum ipsum mercatus aravit, dives amico Hercule!
Page 253 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page xxxiii - The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory grandeur.