Original Views of Passages in the Life and Writings of the Poet-philosopher of Venusia: With which is Combined an Illustration of the Suitability of the Ancient Epic and Lyric Styles to Modern Subjects of National and General InterestHodges and Smith, 1851 - 245 pages |
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... supplied by the existence of a sufficient countervailing authority , which interposed with timely effectiveness to prevent all the evil consequences which might have resulted . Next , as to the passage in Horace to which Dr. Adam refers ...
... supplied by the existence of a sufficient countervailing authority , which interposed with timely effectiveness to prevent all the evil consequences which might have resulted . Next , as to the passage in Horace to which Dr. Adam refers ...
Page 77
... supplied for treating the serious use of convictor in the case as a question of good taste or impropriety . Nor will any force which they may appear to possess be at all diminished by reference to the amount of familiarity implied in ...
... supplied for treating the serious use of convictor in the case as a question of good taste or impropriety . Nor will any force which they may appear to possess be at all diminished by reference to the amount of familiarity implied in ...
Page 84
... supplied his chief objective notion of an early home : of other kindred we have no account . That society once dissolved , ( see page 46 ) , what local tie remained ? The aspect of the whole social world may well be supposed to have ...
... supplied his chief objective notion of an early home : of other kindred we have no account . That society once dissolved , ( see page 46 ) , what local tie remained ? The aspect of the whole social world may well be supposed to have ...
Page 106
... supplied , appears specious enough in the dress of EAE of the first figure , thus : No gradation of favourable estimate of us in respectable society is at any time such that we should not strive to increase it ; The amount of our ...
... supplied , appears specious enough in the dress of EAE of the first figure , thus : No gradation of favourable estimate of us in respectable society is at any time such that we should not strive to increase it ; The amount of our ...
Page 124
... supplied ; but minus ju- cundus , ―alas , that common sense should so easily vanish before the flourish of a copyist's pen ! It will be granted that no form of clerical mark is more likely to thrust itself intrusively into MSS . than ...
... supplied ; but minus ju- cundus , ―alas , that common sense should so easily vanish before the flourish of a copyist's pen ! It will be granted that no form of clerical mark is more likely to thrust itself intrusively into MSS . than ...
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admitted alluded allusion ancient apodosis appear application argument army associations Athenian schools Athens ATQUE battle of Philippi borrowed Brutus Cæsar CARM character Cicero circumstances classical clause Colchi command commentators connexion construction context convey convictor derivable EPIS Epistles evidently expression fact favour former Greek Horace Horace's illustration imply infer instance Julius Cæsar Juvenal language Latin Latin language latter legion less Livy Mæcenas meaning merely mihi military tribune Milman modes moral nature neral notion observed Orellius original parties passage phrase poet poet-philosopher Polybius preceding present principle probably proposition protasis quæ question quia quid quod reader reference remark respecting Roman Roman legion Satire seems sense sentence sentiment sibi statement subjunctive Suetonius suggested supposed supposition tempora term tibi Tigellius tion tive Trans Tribunus Militum true VAPPA Venusia verb vereor verse viator whole words writer Zeugma Zumpt καὶ
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Page 202 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 158 - Discunt in partes centum diducere. Dicat Filius Albini, Si de quincunce remota est Uncia, quid superat ? Poteras dixisse. Triens. Eu ! Rem poteris servare tuam. Redit uncia, quid fit ? Semis.
Page 221 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 17 - Again returned the scenes of youth, Of confident undoubting truth ; Again his soul he interchanged With friends whose hearts were long estranged. They come, in dim procession led, The cold, the faithless, and the dead ; As warm each hand, each brow as gay, As if they parted yesterday.
Page 184 - Apulicum, si figit adamantinos summis verticibus dira Necessitas clavos, non animum metu, non mortis laqueis expedies caput.
Page 113 - Bacche ! modo summa Voce, modo hac resonat quae chordis quattuor ima. Nil aequale homini fuit ffli ; saepe velut qui Currebat fugiens hostem, persaepe velut qui 10 Junonis sacra ferret ; habebat saepe ducentos, Saepe decem servos ; modo reges atque tetrarchas, Omnia magna loquens ; modo, " Sit mihi mensa tripes et Concha salis puri et toga quae defendere frigus Quamvis crassa queat.
Page 205 - Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus Affulsit populo, gratior it dies Et soles melius nitent. Ut mater...
Page 111 - Viselli : 105 est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Page 113 - Tigellius hoc : Caesar, qui cogere posset, Si peteret per amicitiam patris, atque suam, non Quidquam proficeret : si collibuisset, ab ovo Usque ad mala citaret, lo Bacche...
Page 69 - Sat. i. 6. 48. In battle, a tribune seems to have had the charge of ten centuries, or about a thousand men ; hence called in Greek, ^iXiap^oj, vel ->jf.