Thirteen Satires of Juvenal |
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... rich old dame's lust ? Proculeius gets one poor twelfth , but Gillo eleven - twelfths - each inheriting in proportion to his powers . By all means let him pocket the price of his life - blood , and be as pale as one who has trodden with ...
... rich old dame's lust ? Proculeius gets one poor twelfth , but Gillo eleven - twelfths - each inheriting in proportion to his powers . By all means let him pocket the price of his life - blood , and be as pale as one who has trodden with ...
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... rich man forth , the crowd will give way as he is borne along , and he will speed on above their heads in his big palanquin , reading or writing upon the way , or even dozing inside ( for a litter with its windows closed promotes ...
... rich man forth , the crowd will give way as he is borne along , and he will speed on above their heads in his big palanquin , reading or writing upon the way , or even dozing inside ( for a litter with its windows closed promotes ...
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... rich man's shifts . Courting his favour , you abandon the shrine of the Muses and Apollo . In order to save a subscription , he turns poet himself , and yields the palm to Homer only , and that on the score of his thousand years . If ...
... rich man's shifts . Courting his favour , you abandon the shrine of the Muses and Apollo . In order to save a subscription , he turns poet himself , and yields the palm to Homer only , and that on the score of his thousand years . If ...
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... rich find no pleasure in dinner , no flavour in turbot or venison , and think the perfumes and the roses tainted , unless the expanse of table rests on a mass of ivory , a wide - yawning rampant leopard , formed of the tusks which have ...
... rich find no pleasure in dinner , no flavour in turbot or venison , and think the perfumes and the roses tainted , unless the expanse of table rests on a mass of ivory , a wide - yawning rampant leopard , formed of the tusks which have ...
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... rich men practise all these same vices they get the name of ' merry blades , ' ' gay sparks . ' Our feast to - day will offer another kind of treat . The poet of the ' Tale of Troy ' shall be rehearsed , and the verses of deep - toned ...
... rich men practise all these same vices they get the name of ' merry blades , ' ' gay sparks . ' Our feast to - day will offer another kind of treat . The poet of the ' Tale of Troy ' shall be rehearsed , and the verses of deep - toned ...
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