Thirteen Satires of Juvenal, Volumes 1-2 |
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... play of feeling , no wealth of happy description , can turn a sermon into a poem . Whenever thought ceases to be suggestive and becomes dialectical , poetry and satire fade away . In either it is an acknowledgement of weakness to ...
... play of feeling , no wealth of happy description , can turn a sermon into a poem . Whenever thought ceases to be suggestive and becomes dialectical , poetry and satire fade away . In either it is an acknowledgement of weakness to ...
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... plays in which the saints , the devil , and even God himself were freely employed as the vehicles of the coarsest buffoonery . Was Machiavel the less devout for satirising the religion of his times ? Did Dryden or Swift ever hesitate ...
... plays in which the saints , the devil , and even God himself were freely employed as the vehicles of the coarsest buffoonery . Was Machiavel the less devout for satirising the religion of his times ? Did Dryden or Swift ever hesitate ...
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... player has been regarded as infamous by men who reflected the feelings of patrician society , and whose intellect ... play a part in order to get a thousand guineas ! and this infamous action is not looked upon with horror . ' Horace ...
... player has been regarded as infamous by men who reflected the feelings of patrician society , and whose intellect ... play a part in order to get a thousand guineas ! and this infamous action is not looked upon with horror . ' Horace ...
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... play ; and of course on the same principle , it was a mistake to write ' La Légende des Siècles , ' and Victor Hugo would have been better employed on composing a Homeric travesty for Mdlle . Schneider . So again , the bar is condemned ...
... play ; and of course on the same principle , it was a mistake to write ' La Légende des Siècles , ' and Victor Hugo would have been better employed on composing a Homeric travesty for Mdlle . Schneider . So again , the bar is condemned ...
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... playing round it ? When Persius wants to make the picture of death vivid , he gives us a medical description of the muddy com- plexion , the sluggish digestion , the convulsions that come on at meal time , the chattering teeth , and the ...
... playing round it ? When Persius wants to make the picture of death vivid , he gives us a medical description of the muddy com- plexion , the sluggish digestion , the convulsions that come on at meal time , the chattering teeth , and the ...
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