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Página ix
... add much to my stock of knowledge , small as it was ; and , indeed , nothing could well be smaller . At this period , I had read nothing but a black letter romance called Parismus and Parismenus , and a few loose magazines which my ...
... add much to my stock of knowledge , small as it was ; and , indeed , nothing could well be smaller . At this period , I had read nothing but a black letter romance called Parismus and Parismenus , and a few loose magazines which my ...
Página xxv
... adds that " Martial knew nothing of his poetical studies , † who boasted that he was as familiar with Juvenal as Pylades with Orestes ! " It appears indeed that they were acquainted ; but I suspect , notwithstanding the vehemence of ...
... adds that " Martial knew nothing of his poetical studies , † who boasted that he was as familiar with Juvenal as Pylades with Orestes ! " It appears indeed that they were acquainted ; but I suspect , notwithstanding the vehemence of ...
Página xxviii
... adds , " Si fortuna volet , fics de rhetore consul : " Si volet hæc eadem fies de consule rhetor . " Which , taking it for a proverbial expression , I have loosely rendered , Fortune can make kings of pedants , and pedants of kings ...
... adds , " Si fortuna volet , fics de rhetore consul : " Si volet hæc eadem fies de consule rhetor . " Which , taking it for a proverbial expression , I have loosely rendered , Fortune can make kings of pedants , and pedants of kings ...
Página xxxii
... add any intermediate number of years between sixty and seventy , for Calvinus had passed his sixtieth year , it will just bring us down to the early part of Domitian's reign , which I suppose to be the true date of this Satire ; for I ...
... add any intermediate number of years between sixty and seventy , for Calvinus had passed his sixtieth year , it will just bring us down to the early part of Domitian's reign , which I suppose to be the true date of this Satire ; for I ...
Página xxxiii
... Add to this , that the other culprits mentioned in it , are all of them prior to that prince ; nay , one of them , Capito , was tried so early as the beginning of Nero's reign ! The insertion of Marius , however , ( which might be an ...
... Add to this , that the other culprits mentioned in it , are all of them prior to that prince ; nay , one of them , Capito , was tried so early as the beginning of Nero's reign ! The insertion of Marius , however , ( which might be an ...
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Página 478 - 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 204 - 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.
Página 218 - 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.
Página xlii - 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. Hinc omnis pendet Lucilius, hosce secutus Mutatis tantum pedibus numerisque, facetus, Emunctae naris, durus componere versus.
Página lxii - 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 xiii - ... with favours more substantial : little collections were now and then made, and I have received sixpence in an evening. To one who had long lived in the absolute want of money, such a resource seemed a Peruvian mine : I furnished myself by degrees with paper, &c. 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...
Página 218 - They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Página 105 - 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.
Página vii - Brixham, and thither I went when little more than thirteen. • My master, whose name was Full, though a gross and ignorant, was not an ill-natured man; at least, not to me ; and my mistress used me with unvarying kindness ; moved perhaps by my weakness and tender years. In return, I did what I could to requite her, and my good will was not overlooked.
Página 342 - Fond fool ! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more.