The Satires of Decimus Junius JuvenalisW. Bulmer, 1806 - 473 páginas |
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... call him to himself by a sudden death , before we had quite finished the first Satire . He died with a letter of mine , unopened , in his hands . * This event , which took place on the 15th of January , 1781 , afflicted me beyond ...
... call him to himself by a sudden death , before we had quite finished the first Satire . He died with a letter of mine , unopened , in his hands . * This event , which took place on the 15th of January , 1781 , afflicted me beyond ...
Página xxix
... ? Very easily ; he calls him fa- cundus Juvenalis . Here the question is finally left ; for none of the commentators suppose it possible that the epithet can be he grew bolder ; and , having made many large THE LIFE OF JUVENAL . xxix.
... ? Very easily ; he calls him fa- cundus Juvenalis . Here the question is finally left ; for none of the commentators suppose it possible that the epithet can be he grew bolder ; and , having made many large THE LIFE OF JUVENAL . xxix.
Página xlix
... calls the most difficult part of his undertaking ; " a com- parative view of the Satirists ; " not certainly with the design of depressing one at the expense of another , ( for though I have translated Juvenal , I have no quarrel with ...
... calls the most difficult part of his undertaking ; " a com- parative view of the Satirists ; " not certainly with the design of depressing one at the expense of another , ( for though I have translated Juvenal , I have no quarrel with ...
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... calling in strong de- scription to , the aid of virtue , attempts to purify the passions , at the hazard of wounding our delicacy , and offending our taste . This is due to Juvenal : —in justice to myself , let me add , that I could ...
... calling in strong de- scription to , the aid of virtue , attempts to purify the passions , at the hazard of wounding our delicacy , and offending our taste . This is due to Juvenal : —in justice to myself , let me add , that I could ...
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... call my works trifles ; the Supper of Tereus , the Flight of Dædalus , & c . & c . these are trifles : what I write " comes home to men's business and bosoms ; " - et HOMINEM pagina nostra sapit . The walks of Fronto echo round and ...
... call my works trifles ; the Supper of Tereus , the Flight of Dædalus , & c . & c . these are trifles : what I write " comes home to men's business and bosoms ; " - et HOMINEM pagina nostra sapit . The walks of Fronto echo round and ...
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Página 195 - 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 316 - 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.
Página 384 - 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 443 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Página 218 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Página 12 - As this is the first passage, in which the names of patron and client occur, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the relative situation of two classes of men, which comprehended nearly all the citizens of Rome.
Página x - Algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodginghouse. 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 10 - tis so concluded on. Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, — Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd, — They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Página xi - ... 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 51 - 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.