The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes1806 |
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... Nero , and which could scarcely have been given in such vivid colours after the original had ceased to affect the ... Nero's reign . The insertion of Marius , however , ( which might be an after- thought , ) forms a main argument with ...
... Nero , and which could scarcely have been given in such vivid colours after the original had ceased to affect the ... Nero's reign . The insertion of Marius , however , ( which might be an after- thought , ) forms a main argument with ...
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... Nero added a frivolity which rendered his reign at once odious and contemptible . Depravity could reach no fur- ther , but misery might yet be extended . This was fully experienced through the turbulent and murderous usurpations of ...
... Nero added a frivolity which rendered his reign at once odious and contemptible . Depravity could reach no fur- ther , but misery might yet be extended . This was fully experienced through the turbulent and murderous usurpations of ...
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... Nero , or the advice of Cornutus . " The cause of it should be rather sought in his na- tural disposition , and in his habits of thinking . Generally speaking , however , it springs from a too frequent use of tropes , approaching in ...
... Nero , or the advice of Cornutus . " The cause of it should be rather sought in his na- tural disposition , and in his habits of thinking . Generally speaking , however , it springs from a too frequent use of tropes , approaching in ...
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... Nero , from the condition of a slave , to riches and honours . His con- nexion with that monster recommended him to Domitian , with whom he seems to have been in high favour : he shared his coun- sels , ministered to his amusements ...
... Nero , from the condition of a slave , to riches and honours . His con- nexion with that monster recommended him to Domitian , with whom he seems to have been in high favour : he shared his coun- sels , ministered to his amusements ...
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... Nero , and again under Domitian . Pliny gives an entertaining account of his cowardly apprehensions for himself after the death of the latter ; and pronounces him to be the wickedest of all two- legged creatures , omnium bipedum ...
... Nero , and again under Domitian . Pliny gives an entertaining account of his cowardly apprehensions for himself after the death of the latter ; and pronounces him to be the wickedest of all two- legged creatures , omnium bipedum ...
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abolla allusion ancient appears Augustus beautiful boast breast Cæsar Caligula calls Catullus Cicero Claudius Codrus consul crimes Crispinus criticks Dacian war death Domitian dreadful Dryden Emperour Ennius eyes fate father favour favourite fear fire followed fortune frequently Galba give Greek heaven Herodotus Holyday honour Horace horrour husband indignation Julius Cæsar Juvenal's kind learned Martial means mentioned mind Nero never o'er observes old Scholiast Ovid passage perhaps Persius Pliny Plutarch poet poor probably publick quæ quam Quintilian quod rage reader reign rich Romans Rome Ruperti sacred Satire says scarcely Scholiast seems Sejanus senate Seneca shame singular sire slave speaks Statius Suetonius superiour suppose Tacitus tell thee thing thou thought Tiberius Tigellinus Trajan translation Umbritius Vespasian vice virtue wealth wife wine word wretched youth δε τε
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Página 449 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Página 324 - 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: this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
Página 390 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Página 305 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Página lxx - The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original.
Página xv - In this humble and obscure state, poor beyond the common lot, yet flattering my ambition with day-dreams which, perhaps, would never have been realized, I was found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which I have already mentioned, and which had passed from mouth to mouth among people of my own degree, had by some accident or other reached his ear, and given him a curiosity to inquire after the...
Página 326 - Skill'd to reverse whate'er the gods create, And make that crooked which they fashion straight : Hard choice for man, to die — or else to be That tottering, wretched, wrinkled thing you see. Age, then, we all prefer ; for age we pray, And travel on to life's last lingering day ; Then sinking slowly down from worse to worse, Find heaven's extorted boon our greatest curse.
Página xii - I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodging-house. I considered it as a treasure; but it was a treasure locked up ; for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equation, and I knew nothing of the matter.
Página xiii - Sec. and what was of more importance, with books of geometry, and of the higher branches of algebra, which I cautiously concealed. Poetry, even at this time, was no amusement of mine: it was subservient to other purposes ; and I only had recourse to it, when I wanted money for my mathematical pursuits.
Página xlvii - Eupolis atque Cratinus Aristophanesque poetae, Atque alii, quorum comoedia prisca virorum est, Si quis erat dignus describi, quod malus ac fur, Quod moechus foret aut sicarius aut alioqui Famosus, multa cum libertate notabant.