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Juvenal. AN ESSAY ON THE ROMAN SATIRISTS . Ir will now be expected from me , perhaps , to say something on the nature ... Romans ; which he prefixed to his translation of Juvenal . What Dryden knew , he told in a manner that renders every ...
Juvenal. AN ESSAY ON THE ROMAN SATIRISTS . Ir will now be expected from me , perhaps , to say something on the nature ... Romans ; which he prefixed to his translation of Juvenal . What Dryden knew , he told in a manner that renders every ...
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... Romans , like those of every other people , were pious effusions for favours received or expected from the gods : Of these , the earliest , according to Varro , were the hymns to Mars , which , though used by the Salii in the Augustan ...
... Romans , like those of every other people , were pious effusions for favours received or expected from the gods : Of these , the earliest , according to Varro , were the hymns to Mars , which , though used by the Salii in the Augustan ...
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... Romans ; until , about a century afterwards , and during the ravages of a dreadful pestilence , the senate , as the historians say , in oder , to pro- pitiate the gods , called in a troop of players from Tuscany , to assist at the ...
... Romans ; until , about a century afterwards , and during the ravages of a dreadful pestilence , the senate , as the historians say , in oder , to pro- pitiate the gods , called in a troop of players from Tuscany , to assist at the ...
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... Roman . Scaliger derived it from curvpos , ( satyrus , ) but Casaubon , Dacier and others , more reasonably , from satura , ( fem . of satur , ) rich , abounding , full of variety . In this sense it was applied to the lanx or charger ...
... Roman . Scaliger derived it from curvpos , ( satyrus , ) but Casaubon , Dacier and others , more reasonably , from satura , ( fem . of satur , ) rich , abounding , full of variety . In this sense it was applied to the lanx or charger ...
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... Romans the invention + It * It should be observed , however , that the idea was obvious , and the work itself highly necessary . The old Satire , amidst much coarse ribaldry , frequently attacked the follies and vices of the day . This ...
... Romans the invention + It * It should be observed , however , that the idea was obvious , and the work itself highly necessary . The old Satire , amidst much coarse ribaldry , frequently attacked the follies and vices of the day . This ...
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Page 326 - 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.
Page 394 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 423 - If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry...
Page 20 - 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.
Page 230 - 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.
Page 229 - I, that spend half my nights and all my days Here, in a cell, to get a dark, pale face, To come forth worth the ivy or the bays, And in this age can hope no other grace Leave me ! There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung, high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.
Page 18 - 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...
Page xii - 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.
Page 207 - 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.
Page xi - As I hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it ; and was consequently little regarded in the family, of which I sunk by degrees into the common drudge : this did not much disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled.